Mariana Nicotera Computational Linguist | GenAI | Language Expert

Computational Linguist

SiDi

Oct 2024 - May 2025 (8 months)

• Implemented and maintained Text to Speech (TTS) solutions for various devices and platforms at SiDi. • Applied prompt engineering to design and optimize prompt templates for generative AI, curating linguistic data for ASR, TTS, and Machine Translation. Leveraged prompt engineering methodologies to generate and manage multilingual corpora and translations, ensuring coverage of diverse registers and dialects. • Partnered with AI developers and used prompt engineering to iterate on prompts, outputs, and workflows for commercial and proprietary platforms. • Designed and managed data collection projects for speech and language processing tasks, ensuring data quality and diversity across different languages and dialects. • Collaborated wit

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Data Annotation Manager

CaliberAI

Nov 2022 - Feb 2023 (4 months)

Maintained defamation detection technology dataset: growing it, inspecting for bias, and ensuring balance, for sentiment analysis machine learning tasks. Fine-tuned dataset for client purposes. Monitored opportunities concerning other language classes and the company's annotation work. Contributed to copywriting of media, marketing, and promotion of the company's work.

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English Ontologist

Mind AI

Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 (4 months)

Provided analysis of natural language sentences to data model based on universal dependencies and treebank tags Developed common and domain-specific ontology Measured and analyzed the accuracy of lexical parsers Worked on scaling, contextualization/disambiguation, and other knowledge representations

Computational Linguist Project Manager

Venga Global

Mar 2021 - Jun 2021 (4 months)

Analyzed projects by defining the scope through analyzing project briefs and source content, raising, and resolving any queries during the evaluation phase. Designed/scoped tools for various NLP data collection tasks and worked closely with the development team. Prepared and designed guidelines and training materials aligned to client specifications. Provided hand-off instructions for fellow linguists and conducted pre-delivery QA checks.

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Computational Linguist

Talentify.io

Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 (7 months)

As acting Product Owner, took full ownership of the annotation‐tool initiative: ideated product vision, defined key features and navigation, and aligned stakeholders on priorities. Leveraged Product Ownership to partner with the data‐science manager, translating backend requirements into frontend specifications for seamless developer–data team collaboration. • Demonstrated strong product ownership by balancing user needs, business goals and technical constraints in a strategic, cross‐functional approach, readying the project for implementation. Elaborated and performed new strategies for linguistic annotation projects in NLP, text analytics and SEO. Created the wireframe of a new (in-house) linguistic annotation interface, with the structu

Remote Computational Linguist

Lionbridge

Feb 2017 - May 2017 (4 months)

Improved web search functionality, by improving features of subjective terminology. Reviewed and improved of Brazilian Portuguese specific terminology database. Applied Localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

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Remote Computational Linguist

Verint Next IT

May 2016 - Jul 2016 (3 months)

Analyzed of patterns in linguistic data, such as composition, inflection patterns; Defined inflection rules; reported bugs; Applied localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks. Quality Assurance of tests, reporting bugs; Linguistic annotation tasks; Text minning tasks; Name entity recognition and disambiguation; Tests for the quality of natural language processing modules and to study the effect of different modeling techniques; Generated and tested working hypotheses;

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Freelancer Copywriter

Simões de Assis Art Gallery

Aug 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 6 months)

Wrote press releases for exhibitions, in Portuguese and in English. Created and wrote web content for Mazo Leilões auction house's website, affiliated with SIM Galeria. Applied Localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

TESOL Teacher

Yázigi

Jul 2015 - Dec 2015 (6 months)

Taught English to children, teenagers, young people, and adults, from beginner to advanced level.

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TESOL Teacher

Seven Idiomas

Mar 2015 - Jul 2015 (5 months)

Planned and executed extra-class educational activities in coordination with the school board.

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Interpreter

TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools)

Apr 2014

Worked as interpreter at Boarding School Admission Fair in São Paulo. Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.

Translator

EducationUSA

Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 (3 years)

Translated documents, to and from English, such as certificates, diplomas, certificates, school curricula, among others. Applied localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

Computational Linguist

Samsung Electronics

Feb 2013 - Oct 2014 (1 year 9 months)

Managed outsourced team in corpus treatment according to technical requirements of NLU and NLP software. Attended four weeks of training at Samsung headquarters in South Korea. Worked in conjunction with NLP team in South Korea by providing quality assurance of database and linguistic advisement regarding Brazilian Portuguese language characteristics. Applied localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

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Interpreter

EBC - Empresa Brasil de Comunicação

Jan 2013

Translated live broadcasted interview with Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux Professional Institute), one of main names of free software, at EBC stand at Campus Party 2013's edition.

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Interpreter

Linden Educational Services

Oct 2012

Worked as an interpreter for representatives of foreign universities and academic institutions at the Summer Programs and Boarding School Expo.

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Interpreter

South American EducationUSA Fair Circuit

Sep 2012 - Jun 2014 (1 year 10 months)

Analyzed of patterns in linguistic data, such as composition, inflection patterns. Defined inflection rules; reported bugs. Applied Localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

Bilingual Executive Assistant

White & Case LLP

Mar 2012 - Aug 2012 (6 months)

Translated legal documents, word processing (Word, Excel and Power Point) as well as performed tasks of editing, proofreading and organization of documents. Handled logistics, catering, agendas and travel arrangements for meeting and event planning for board of directors, president and executive vice president. Applied localization and internationalization techniques to several tasks.

National Portuguese Exam Examiner

Fundaçao Vunesp

Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Worked as member of Portuguese Language Examination Board as SARESP during 2012 and 2013. Evaluated candidates' performance in aspects such as use of Portuguese language grammar and use of writing techniques.

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Conversational Designer

Univoz Comunicação Humana

Sep 2011 - Nov 2011 (3 months)

Developed and designed of scripts for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) software. Developed, conducted and presented research on best business practices on IVR scripts. Translated and adapted documents from English to Portuguese. Created project reports presented in constant meetings with business partners and customers.

Computational Linguist

Appen

Sep 2010 - Mar 2011 (7 months)

Participated at Sydney's office on three different projects of NLP as a freelancer linguist consultant, performing tasks such as quality assurance and linguistic database creation. Listened to audio recordings and performed accurate transcription, as well as annotated other non-speech noises following guidelines in projects of Automatic Speech

Instructional Designer

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

May 2006 - Jun 2006 (2 months)

Developed materials for use in teacher training courses given to the National Network of Continuing Education for Teachers by the Center for Continuing Education for Teachers of the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (CEFIEL).

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