Abdallah Amin Abdel Rahman Abushmaes

مدير الأبحاث اللغوية at mawdoo3.com

• Jordan - Amman
• My current job since July 2019

Arabic linguistic consultant (contract) at Amazon

• Poland
• My current job since January 2018

(Hired by Appen)
I am giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech system in Arabic language.

Tasks include:
- Normalizing textual resources
- Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules
- Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features
- Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines
- Producing/validating phonetic transcriptions
- QA of TTS voices and linguistic data
- Translating/proofreading different contents
- Proof-listening of recordings to assure sound-text/phonetic representation matching
- Supervising recording sessions.

Arabic language Checker / News Editor/ Journalist at JRTV

• Jordan - Amman
• August 2016 to January 2019

Checking news stories and bulletins for Arabic language to maintain high level of grammar and language usage.

Content Creator and Arabic Language Expert (freelance) at busuu

• United Kingdom - London
• March 2017 to February 2018

Create content for Arabic language course on busuu application including different types of language exercises.

Lecturer of Arabic as a Second Language at University of Jordan

• Jordan - Amman
• February 2017 to May 2017

- Teaching Arabic as a second language.
- Assessing students.
- Create exams.

Arabic Language Expert at Lingvist Ltd

• United Kingdom - London
• December 2015 to November 2016

Lingvist is an adaptive language-learning platform that uses new technology to teach languages online.
▪ Translating and editing Arabic-English module content.
▪ Finding and preparing educational content.
▪ Finding test users for Arabic-English module, organising feedback sessions; developing customer relations.
▪ Finding suitable corpora and setting criteria to analyse them in order to build the language modules.

Arabic Language and Literature teacher at International School of London in Surrey, UK

• United Kingdom - London
• August 2015 to December 2015

▪ Teaching Arabic literature to Grade 6-10 students at Middle Years Programme (MYP) affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
▪ Teaching Arabic language to Grade 4-5 students at Primary Years Programme (PYP) affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
▪ Teaching Arabic as a second language.
▪ Writing exams and assessing students.

Arabic Language Teacher and Course Coordinator at Babylon School of Languages, Salisbury. UK

• United Kingdom - London
• March 2014 to April 2015

▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers
▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Gulf Arabic.
▪ Developing course materials
▪ Writing exams and assessing students.

Arabic Linguistic Consultant ( Contract) at Summitsoft Limited ( http://www.summitsoft.co.uk)

• United Kingdom - London
• December 2013 to March 2014

Providing linguistic consultation for the IT projects in the company to maintain high level of accuracy in all lingual aspects.

Arabic language Checker / News Editor/ Journalist at Jordan TV

• Jordan - Amman
• March 2006 to October 2013

Checking news stories and bulletins for Arabic language to maintain high level of grammar and language usage.

Arabic Teacher for Non- Arabic Speakers at Qasid Institute

• Jordan - Amman
• January 2012 to December 2012

▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers at different levels
▪ Teaching literature and cultural courses to non-Arabic speakers
▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Classical (Quranic) Arabic and Levantine Arabic.
▪ Preparing teaching materials, writing exams and evaluating students.