Japanese Specialist
About this role
Overview Japanese exposes AI quickly: it mishandles keigo, mixing polite, humble, and honorific speech in ways that would embarrass a real speaker, and it fumbles counters and particles. It can build grammatical sentences that still land at the wrong level of politeness, and a native reader is who feels the mismatch. As a Japanese Expert, you'll judge and correct AI output in Japanese, teaching models to match the register a real reader expects. What you’ll actually do - Review translations between English and Japanese for meaning, flow, and the right level of keigo. - Score and rank model output in Japanese, catching misused honorifics, wrong counters, and stiff particles. - Write the better version when the model misses, natural enough to read as native. Roles this fits Common backgrounds: Japanese Linguist, Bilingual Reviewer, Localization Specialist. What we look for - Native or near-native fluency in Japanese. - Command of keigo and the registers of everyday speech. - Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal. - No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it. How it works Apply Qualify Work & get paid Compensation Up to $40/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income. About DataAnnotation DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.
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