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- Episode #18: Alicia Chatten
“You don’t need to find your lifetime career the first time you apply for a job.”
Alicia Chatten works in Technical Communications at Kargo, where she focuses on company-internal communication across teams. This consists of technical writing, intranet management, and the development of learning and training materials. She holds a BA in linguistics from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MA in linguistics (with a concentration in phonology and phonetics) from New York University.
Alicia Chatten’s website
Alicia Chatten at LinkedIn
Write the Docs
Topics covered:
– multilingualism
– music– project work– informational interviews– phonology– computational linguistics– technical documentation– technical writing– advertisingDownload the transcript here (Word doc) or view online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 2 min - Episode #17: LCC live at LingFest
“Sometimes it’s just one word that makes all the difference.”
This episode is a recording of a special live episode of the Linguistics Careercast podcast.
Our show features interviews with linguists who have made the transition from academia to industry, at all stages of their careers, and in a wide variety of businesses, from tech to marketing to education and more.
The panel was held on February 11, 2023, during LingFest, a part of LingComm 2023
Panelists:
Aubrie Amstutz, Product Policy Analyst, Text Features, TikTok
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, AI/ML Data Linguist, AmazonJuan Rosas, Language Access Policy Coordinator, City of Long BeachLaurel Sutton, Professional Namer, Catchword BrandingProducer:
Alex Johnston, MLC Director, Georgetown UniversityIntegrity CommunicationsCultish by Amanda Montell
Worthwhile Consulting, Suzanne Wertheim
Topics include
– language learning– AI– language policy– UX– discourse analysis– sociolinguistics– Alexa– NLP– linguistic anthropology– language access– marketing– salaries– free labor– DEIDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 11 min - Episode #16: Ezra Wyschogrod
“Learn how to negotiate a salary.”
Ezra Wyschogrod is a Language Engineer at Amazon Alexa, focusing on entertainment, including music, video, and sports requests from customers. His work spans Natural Language Understanding and Automatic Speech Recognition. He holds a BA in linguistics from Columbia University, and an MS in Linguistics from Georgetown.
Ezra Wyschogrod on LinkedIn
Georgetown MLC Program
Topics covered:
– phonetics– sociolinguistics– job search– networking– government work– tech– Alexa– salary negotiationsDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 17 min - Episode #15: Natural Language Processing (LCL audio)
“Stand your ground, don’t be intimidated: Never think that you can’t do the job.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. The title of the panel is National Language Processing and the moderator is Christopher Phipps.
Natural Language Processing or NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with automated interpretation and generation of human language. The goal of NLP is how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data, including both text and speech data. Unlike earlier fully rules-based methods, more recently NLP proceeds by using machine learning and statistical methods.
Our panelists followed different routes from linguistics into Natural Language Processing (NLP). They share their decisions about taking these routes, and what’s involved in this profession. They also discuss the common question for working in NLP: how technical do I need to be?
Ezra Wyschogrod on LinkedIn
Esmé Manandise on LinkedInRich Campbell on LinkedInTopics include
– natural language processing– natural language technology– NLP– Alexa– project management– networking– job qualifications– coding– Python– salariesDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 20 min - Episode #14: David Peterson and Jessie Sams
“There are jobs that you could never have imagined – and they’re possible.”
David Peterson received a master’s degree in Linguistics from UC San Diego in 2005 and he’s been creating languages since 2000. He served as a cofounder and original board member of the Language Creation Society, and served as its president from 2011 to 2014. He has worked as a language creator on numerous television shows and films, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix’s The Witcher, the CW’s The 100, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. In the fall of 2015 he published his nonfiction work The Art of Language Invention with Penguin Books.
Jessie Sams got her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder, and until recently was a professor of linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, where she created a conlanging course and taught students how to construct a language from the ground up. She is now a full-time professional conlanger and works with David Peterson.
David Peterson on LinkedIn
Jessie Sams on LinkedIn
David Peterson, The Art of Language Invention
Language Creation Society
LangTime Studio on YouTube
Topics include
– language creation– conlanging– grad school– Hollywood– language learningDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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58 min - Episode #13: Linguists in Technical Communication (LCL Audio)
“The real technology behind technology is language.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021, and the moderator is Sue Lindner. The title of the panel is Linguists in Technical Communication.
Technical Communication includes not only writing, but editing, training, UX design, and other tasks related to communication. We’ll hear from three linguists with experience in large corporations, freelance contracting, and consulting, in a variety of positions, about how they plan, execute and evaluate their work, and the special skills that their linguistics training provided.
Joe Devney on LinkedIn
Madeleine Adkins on LinkedInCate de Heer on LinkedInSociety for Technical Communication
Write the Docs
Jonathan Price and Henry Korman, How to Communicate Technical Information
Roger Shuy, Fighting over Words
Topics include
– technical writing– technical communication– documentation– cultural communication– content strategy– content creationDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 5 min - Episode #12: Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender
“Be patient with yourself.”
Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from Pennsylvania State University and received her Master’s Degree from the same institution. She also holds a Master’s Degree in History. She was as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Shepherd University for 12 years before moving to industry. Today she designs, creates, and delivers a wide variety of language content to multiple levels of language learning in Spanish and German, at online learning companies like Mango Languages, Babbel, and Education First.
Eva-Maria Suarez Büdenbender at LinkedIn
Anna Marie Trester/Career Linguist
Linguist List
Topics covered:
– Multilingualism
– Content creation– Research– Sociolinguistics– Language learning– Apps– Contract workDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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42 min - Episode #11 – Being Black and Successful Beyond the Academy (LCL Audio)
“Your network is your net worth.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021; the moderator is Minnie Quartey Annan (Georgetown/Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington DC).
From #BlackInTheIvory and beyond: The panelists discuss their experiences in and out of academia as they navigate success. the importance of networks, and whether DEI in the workplace is productive or just performative.
Mackenzie Price on LinkedIn
Na’im Tyson on LinkedIn
NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), annual conference
Topics covered:
– Changing jobs
– Structure of labor– Free labor– Affinity groups– Imposter syndrome– Networking– DEI– NWAVDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 2 min - Episode #10: Joseph Tyler
“Why am I doing all this free labor?”
Joseph Tyler is is a conversational designer at Uber, where he designs, builds, and delivers multi-modal conversational interactions for mobile, web and chat interfaces. He finished his PhD in linguistics in 2012 at the University of Michigan. He then did a psycholinguistics postdoc in Kentucky and was an assistant professor in Qatar before leaving academia, moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, and exploring work opportunities in tech. Prior to Uber, his primary design experience was 4.5 years with the avatar-driven conversation platform and health tech startup Sensely.
Joseph Tyler at LinkedIn and his blog
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program at Michigan
Anna Marie Trester/Career Linguist
Jen Polk
What Color is Your Parachute – The flower exercise
Topics covered:
– Conversational AI
– Conversation designer– NLP– Meetups– Networking– ChatbotsDownload a transcript here (Word doc) or view it online here courtesy of Luca Dinu
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1 hr 4 min - Episode #9: User Experience and Design (LCL Audio)
“User experience is a team sport.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021; the presenter is Nancy Frishberg, one of the LCL organizers.
In this session, Nancy provides a historical perspective on the intersection of linguistics and user
experience and design. She addresses questions such as: What is design? Who is a designer?What do we mean by user research? What is the difference between art and design? And how do your skills as a linguist translate to user design?Nancy Frishberg on LinkedIn
Nancy Frishberg on Quora
Link to slides presented in this session
Books and other resources to learn about design, user experience and user research
- Don Norman’s Design of Everyday Things https://jnd.org/tag/book/
- Jeff Johnson’s Designing with the Mind in Mind http://uiwizards.com/
- Jeff Johnson & Kate Finn’s Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population http://uiwizards.com/
- Christian Rohrer’s https://www.nngroup.com/articles/which-ux-research-methods/ (2017, rev 2022)
- Carolyn Jarrett’s Surveys That Work https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/surveys-that-work/
- Steve Portigal’s Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries (User Research War Stories) https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/userresearch-war-stories/
- UXPA: User Experience Professionals Association https://uxpa.org
Topics covered:
– Design
– Digital design– User research– Survey design– MethodologiesDownload a transcript here (Word doc) courtesy of Luca Dinu
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Linguistics Careercast is the podcast devoted to exploring careers for linguists outside academia, through interviews with linguists employed in industry.