Expert in linguistics, languages and computational linguistics. Background in R&D in linguistic and IT / New Technologies related areas such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, biometric identity verification systems, machine translation, linguistic technologies. 7+ years experience in writing, editing and proofreading scientific articles, journals and R&D project proposals.
I have 7+ years experience of writing, editing and proofreading scientific articles and R&D project proposal aimed at obtaining financing from funding agencies such as national governments, research councils and the European Commission. I have also written technical manuals, official funding reports and documentation, progress reports, business plans and financial statements. I was also responsible for proofreading English documentation by non-native speakers of English.
I have a PhD / Doctorate in Language Engineering (Computational Linguistics). This includes morphology, syntax, statistical language processing, corpus linguistics and terminology extraction.
I am currently a research engineer having worked in the new technologies domain: speech recognition, speaker verification, speech synthesis, dialogue systems, machine translation, natural language understanding, telecommunications, audiovisual biometric identity verification systems, image processing, audio and video codecs, audio and video signal processing.
I have also been responsible for the production of various linguistic resources and their linguistic correctness.
Other languages include fluent French, German and Russian and elementary Mandarin Chinese. Some knowledge of Maltese.
Education degree
PHD
Major specialization
Languages, +PhD Computational Linguistic
Second specialization
Computer Science
First language
English
Areas of specialization
Not selected
Work experience
Present Occupation: Research Engineer
Editing Experience in Years:
I have 7+ years experience of writing, editing and proofreading scientific articles and R&D project proposal aimed at obtaining project financing from funding agencies such as national governments, research councils and the European Commission. I have also written technical manuals, funding reports, progress reports, business plans and financial statements.
I am also in charge of writing official reports and documentation concerning the project partners and the funding agencies. I was also responsible for proofreading English documentation by non-native speakers of English
Computer experience
Microsoft Windows XP
MS Office Suite : MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Outlook