Annotator - Welsh English Annotator

WORK TYPE: remote work/work from home

WORK LOCATION: Wales, United Kingdom

WORK SCHEDULE: up to 10 hours per week

WORK TIMELINE: 3-4 weeks

LANGUAGE: Wales English

JOB TYPE: Hourly, Part-time

TELUS International is looking for Welsh English (English used in Wales, UK) Linguists for an English Transcreation and Annotation project.

Task description: the task is a two-step process including transcreation and annotation, depending on the availability, the linguist will be assigned to only one step of the process.

Transcreation phase: transcreate given texts into Welsh English. Please note that the source will be in English. The sentence (about 10 words) or passage (about 40-50 words) should be transcreated in a way that’s most natural for a native speaker of Welsh English.

Annotation phase: Take prompts and outputs in Welsh English and annotate them based on a series of questions aimed at measuring responsiveness.

For example, in US versus UK standard English there are many examples of lexical differences (lorry vs truck; rubbish vs garbage, etc), but it does require some thought to introduce syntactical structure:

In the US, the answer to “Did Frank love it?” is “He must have”; in the UK is “He must have done”.

US: “the film was very good” vs UK: “the film was well good”

UK: “The New York Red Bulls are an American Soccer team”; UK: “FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian association football club”.

Requirements:

• Native or near-native speaker of Welsh English
• Currently located in United Kingdom
• Degree or experience in a language-related discipline, such as linguistics, language teaching, translation, creative writing, journalism or proofreading, etc.
• Degree in English Linguistics or English language is good to have.
• Experience of annotation or similar tasks is a plus
• Over 18 years old
• Access to a computer (desktop/laptop) and stable Internet connection

Estimated start date: Immediately

Estimated workload: up to 10 hours per week

Project duration: 1-2 weeks

Compensation:  

• $25.00 per hour 
• Payments are made via TELUS International AI Community Portal

Assessment: a project-specific writing test will be administered as part of the screening for this project after you have confirmed your availability. 

How to Apply:

Please complete the application via the following link:

https://telusinternational.headway.ai/searchResults/REQ_ID_4672

Our team will contact you with the next steps.

If you have any questions or would like more details about this project, please contact us at aisourcing@telusinternational.ai and please include “Wales English” in the body of the mail or the subject line.

Thank you!