Data Curation Associate-north East Zone

**Location**: Bangalore

**Type**:Full time Consultant

**About the Team**:
You will be a part of the Language Data & AI team at ARTPARK and IISc.

You will be part of this core team at ARTPARK.

**Overview of the project**:
As part of an ambitious nation-wide program, you will help create unique, high-quality open-source speech and text datasets spanning every district to accelerate the state-of-the-art in NLP (Natural Language Processing) in Indian languages.

With several large projects under BhashaSetu, ARTPARK’s vision is to spearhead the creation of an inclusive digital-India through propel the AI advancements in Indic languages spanning projects in speech data collection, curation and advanced language modelling.

You will be part of the operations team which drives data collection and curation across all projects in BhashaSetu program, working closely with the ARTPARK team.

**Role & key responsibilities**:
You will be responsible for the data from one or more of the following states:
Arunachal Pradesh

Assam

Manipur

Meghalaya

Mizoram

Nagaland

Sikkim

Tripura

Orissa

Understand requirements for data curation and its implications on the AI models built. Understanding the requirements thoroughly as and when guideline documentation is received.

Search and recruit the correct curation experts as required by the project through searching and contacts (e.g., NGOs, local institutes etc.) in the districts/area that you are managing

Design task flyers and find out all ways to reach the individuals and language experts(local in a district) who could be interested in data curation and quality checking

Contact (through phone call and WhatsApp) to applicants as well as those who did not

Host project awareness calls with potential experts to drive understanding of their tasks

Manage day-to-day curation operations for audio and transcription data

Training the recruited experts in required tasks. Provide relevant documentation for training

Assigning of daily workload basis their availability and closely coordinating to get the work done

Supervising their daily performance and review their work on a daily basis.

**Skills and background**:
Should be a native and local language speaker of the local language of the following districts:
Wancho (primarily from Longding)

Mishmi (primarily from Anjaw, Lower Dibang valley)

Nyishi (primarily from Papum Pare)

Bengali (primarily from Hailakandi, Dhalai, South Tripura, Unakoti, West Tripura)

Assamese (primarily from Kamrup Metropolitan, Sonitpur)

Karbi (primarily from Karbi Anglong)

Kuki Zo, Manipuri (primarily from Imphal West, Jiribam, Kakching, Pherzawl)

Garo (primarily from North Garo Hills, South Garo Hills, West Garo Hills)

Mizo (primarily from Aizawl, Lunglei, Saiha, Serchhip)

Nagamese, Agami (primarily from Dimapur, Kiphire, Kohima, Longleng)

Sikkimese, Nepali (primarily from East Sikkim, Soreng, South Sikkim, West Sikkim)

Odia (primarily from Khordha, Malkangiri, Sambalpur)

Chhattisgarhi (primarily from Nuapada)

Should be good at verbal and written communication both in English and local language

Should be good with handling multiple people (remotely working) and get the task done by them.

Skills: Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Google workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides)

**Good-to-haves**:
Experience in data curation

Experience in speech data annotation and labelling

Experience in working with data sourcing and annotation companies

ARTPARK at IISc drives impact through innovations in AI & Robotics, by harnessing the best of research/academia, startups/industry, and government/nonprofits.

Our pioneering platform initiatives in language data & AI and health data & AI are driving national-scale impact with stakeholders such as MeitY’s Bhashini, Office of PSA, ICMR, States and Cities.

These platforms are in pursuit of our vision - AI for All.