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becky palmon

@beckypalmon

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Senior data linguist specializing in Dutch-language annotation, QA, and dataset development for ML applications.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek part-time, remote roles where I can apply Dutch expertise and annotation leadership to deliver high-quality, privacy-compliant datasets and mentor teams.

I am a senior data linguist with over five years preparing language data for machine learning, blending native Dutch fluency with rigorous academic training in linguistics.

My work spans end-to-end annotation project ownership: translating ML objectives into clear guidelines, mentoring annotators, and performing quality audits to deliver reliable datasets.

At Veridata Solutions I led a Dutch sentiment-analysis corpus of 200,000+ reviews, maintaining 99.2% accuracy, and developed training modules that cut guideline queries by 40%.

I hold a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington and bring strong technical and operational skills — from Labelbox and Prodigy to basic Python, QA, and documentation — to ensure high-quality, privacy-compliant data for model training.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Data Linguist

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Veridata Solutions

Mar 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Owned end-to-end annotation projects, led a Dutch-language sentiment analysis of 200,000+ reviews achieving 99.2% accuracy against gold standards, and built training modules that reduced guideline queries by 40%.

Dutch Linguistics Annotations Sentiment Analysis Quality Assurance Labeling Platforms Mentoring Inter Annotator Agreement

Data Annotation Specialist

LinguaTech Analytics

Jun 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 8 months)

Performed high-volume, high-accuracy annotations across e-commerce and support dialogues, averaging 1,500 complex text segments per week and driving guideline clarifications that improved team alignment.

Annotating Reporting Remote Collaboration QA Spreadsheet Management

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Washington

Sep 2018 - May 2019 (8 months)

Built and annotated a corpus of Dutch journalistic text for syntactic analysis that contributed to a published paper and documented annotation decisions to resolve inter-rater discrepancies.

Linguistic Analysis Documentation Research Methodology Data Management

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Washington

Doctor of Philosophy, Linguistics

2015 - 2019

Activities and societies: Graduate Research Assistant; constructed and annotated Dutch corpora; contributed to published research.

Completed a PhD in Linguistics researching semantic annotation frameworks for low-resource languages, combining theoretical and empirical methods to improve training data quality.

University of Amsterdam

Master of Arts, Linguistics

2013 - 2015

Earned a Master of Arts in Linguistics with a focus on formal syntax and semantics, strengthening analytical foundations for language structure analysis.

Utrecht University

Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics

2010 - 2013

Completed a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics providing a broad foundation in language theory, phonetics, and grammar relevant to computational linguistics.