**Company: Alpha CRC Ltd. Job Description Summary: A translation company is looking for a French Canadian translator who can handle a variety of tasks such as translating user interfaces, web content, and more. The ideal candidate must have strong organizational skills, be passionate about translating, and have a good understanding of IT and technology. The job responsibilities include translating various text types, conducting terminology research, and creating style guides. The company offers a warm and welcoming work environment with a diverse team from all over the world. The job is based in Cambridge, a vibrant city with a mix of history and modernity, and the candidate must have the right to work in the UK. Job Description: Do you have a passion for translating from English to French Canadian? Do you love working on a wide variety of source materials and for different international clients? Do you know how to adapt translations to different brand tones of voice? Do you enjoy working with translation technologies and have strong organizational skills? Tasks The opportunity Our lovely team is looking for a new colleague: a dedicated translation professional, an all-rounder who can competently handle a variety of linguistic tasks such as translating user interfaces, web content, Q&A documents, product descriptions, corporate communication, mailings, press releases, instruction manuals, brochures and subtitles for videos. If you have copywriting talent as well, you might be writing blogs for our clients, not just translating them. Successful candidates will be passionate about translating, have good time management skills, and be interested in IT, technology and the world. Main tasks Translate a variety of text types and subject matters Transcreation Review and post-edit machine-produced translations Conduct terminology research Create and maintain translation memories and Termbases Create and maintain style guides Participate in occasional meetings with client contacts Make occasional visits to clients for product demos or briefings Requirements Key requirements Translators must master French Canadian at mother-tongue level Excellent grammar and fluent writing style Translation qualification and minimum of three years’ experience Willingness to learn new things and to go the extra mile Ability to review work of others, edit and provide feedback Ability to work under pressure without impacting quality Good time management and versatility Professional approach and commitment to quality Able to work autonomously as well as within a team Good eye for detail and ability to pay attention to multiple references Cultural awareness Client orientated and a team player Optional skills Familiar with MemoQ, Trados, Smartling, Memsource and other CATs Ability to translate/transcreate marketing-type messages Experience translating for the ecommerce and finance sector Subtitling videos Benefits About Alpha CRC Alpha has been at the forefront of the translation, localization and now globalization industries since 1987, and is now a global top-ten localization provider. We’ve built an in-house production model for the world’s most demanding companies. Alpha is a warm, lively and welcoming firm with over 30 nationalities represented in its 18 offices. Every individual adds their own personality to our culture, and allows us to paint a bright, vivid and multi-faceted picture of the world, in micro, in each place. In the end, being part of the team is about more than work. We have activities ranging from paintball to cookery contests, or book exchanges to film watching, which take place across all our 15 countries. We service an impressive range of internationally known clients in various sectors.
Working in Cambridge Known the world over for its prestigious university, Cambridge is a beautiful historic city that attracts millions of visitors. However, it’s also a youthful, multicultural hub and home to some of the world’s leading hi-tech firms. Compact and accessible, there’s no shortage of pubs, bars and cafes in which to meet friends and colleagues. From museums, parks and galleries to nightclubs and restaurants, the UK’s most bike-friendly city is full of things to see and do, as well as being only a 50-minute train ride from one of the world’s most famous capitals: London. Send your CV with a letter of motivation. Right to work in the UK is mandatory. We currently operate a hybrid working model (3 days at the office, 2 days from home) which is under regular review.
“Fine-tuning” means adapting an existing machine learning model for specific tasks or use cases. In this post I’m going to walk you through how you can fine tune a large language model for sentence similarity using some hand annotated test data. This example is in the psychology domain. You need training data consisting of pairs of sentences, and a “ground truth” of how similar you want those sentences to be when you train your custom sentence similarity model.
Hire an NLP developer and untangle the power of natural language in your projects The world is buzzing with the possibilities of natural language processing (NLP). From chatbots that understand your needs to algorithms that analyse mountains of text data, NLP is revolutionising industries across the board. But harnessing this power requires the right expertise. That’s where finding the perfect NLP developer comes in. Post a job in NLP on naturallanguageprocessing.
Natural language processing What is natural language processing? Natural language processing, or NLP, is a field of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and humans using natural language. NLP is a branch of AI but is really a mixture of disciplines such as linguistics, computer science, and engineering. There are a number of approaches to NLP, ranging from rule-based modelling of human language to statistical methods. Common uses of NLP include speech recognition systems, the voice assistants available on smartphones, and chatbots.
