Abdallah Amin Abdel Rahman Abushmaes

مدير الأبحاث اللغوية à mawdoo3.com

• Jordanie - Amman
• Je travaille ici depuis juillet 2019

Arabic linguistic consultant (contract) à Amazon

• Pologne
• Je travaille ici depuis janvier 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 à JRTV

• Jordanie - Amman
• août 2016 à janvier 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) à busuu

• Royaume Uni - London
• mars 2017 à février 2018

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

Lecturer of Arabic as a Second Language à University of Jordan

• Jordanie - Amman
• février 2017 à mai 2017

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

Arabic Language Expert à Lingvist Ltd

• Royaume Uni - London
• décembre 2015 à novembre 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 à International School of London in Surrey, UK

• Royaume Uni - London
• août 2015 à décembre 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 à Babylon School of Languages, Salisbury. UK

• Royaume Uni - London
• mars 2014 à avril 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) à Summitsoft Limited ( http://www.summitsoft.co.uk)

• Royaume Uni - London
• décembre 2013 à mars 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 à Jordan TV

• Jordanie - Amman
• mars 2006 à octobre 2013

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

Arabic Teacher for Non- Arabic Speakers à Qasid Institute

• Jordanie - Amman
• janvier 2012 à décembre 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.