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Maryam Faal

@maryamfaal

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Seasoned multilingual linguist and translator specializing in AI and localization.

Czechia

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles leveraging my multilingual linguistics, localization, and AI evaluation expertise in collaborative teams, offering impactful projects and opportunities to advance language technology and terminology management.

I am a seasoned language industry professional with over 25 years of experience in translation, terminology, localization, NLP, AI language model evaluation, QA testing, and academic instruction. I deliver precise, high-quality results across legal, medical, scientific, and technical domains and have consistently contributed to high-impact international projects.

My experience spans remote and on-site roles with organizations such as Medlings sro, Upwork, LionBridge, Appen Butler Hill, LDC (Pennsylvania University), and the UNDL Foundation, where I worked as a linguist, terminologist, data annotator, evaluator, and project coordinator. I have a strong track record in medical translation, Persian-English-Russian language work, and complex data and AI evaluation tasks.

I hold a PhD in comparative linguistics and certifications in terminology management and advanced English, and I combine academic rigor with practical expertise in CAT tools, localization workflows, and linguistic research to support teams building reliable, multilingual language solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Linguist

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Transparent

Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 2 months)

Compiled Persian grammar booklets and contributed linguistic expertise to Persian language resources and educational materials in a remote capacity.

Content Development Editing Proofreading Localization Terminology

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Freelance Language Expert

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Upwork

Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 2 months)

Provided translation, localization, terminology, recruitment and data operation services to diverse clients; achieved Top Rated Plus status with 100% success and performed data search/analysis for a leading internet platform.

Translation Localization Terminology Data Operations Internet Research Recruitment Data Analysis Proofreading CAT Tools

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Persian–English Translator & QA Specialist

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Lionbridge

Jan 2017 - Present (9 years 2 months)

Provided Persian–English medical translation, proofreading, and language analysis; served as recruiter, QA moderator, team coordinator and advisor on Microsoft Edge and other projects since 2017.

Medical Translation Proofreading Team Coordination Recruitment Localization CAT Tools

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Senior Linguist & AI Evaluator

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Appen Butler Hill

Jan 2015 - Present (11 years 2 months)

Served as senior linguist across AI and speech projects including ASR/ASR evaluation, pronunciation transcription, syntax analysis, MT post-editing, and AI content evaluation since 2015.

ASR Evaluation AI Evaluation Transcription Syntax Data Annotation QA Testing

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Linguist & Translator

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Medlings sro

Jan 2013 - Present (13 years 2 months)

Medical terminologist and translator delivering specialized Persian–English language support for medical documentation and terminology projects since 2013, ensuring high accuracy and consistency across international deliverables.

Medical Terminology Localization Proofreading Quality Assurance CAT Tools

Data Evaluation & Language Expert

LDC Pennsylvania University

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Evaluated language data and contributed linguistic expertise to the CAMIO project, improving dataset quality for NLP research between 2019 and 2022.

Data Evaluation NLP Quality Assurance Data Analysis

Project Manager Assistant & Translator

WikiHow

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Managed Persian language projects, translated and proofread articles across medicine, geography, culture and tourism to improve content quality and accessibility (2019–2020).

Project Coordination Translation Proofreading Content Localization Editing Quality Assurance Persian

NLP Expert & Persian Linguist

UNDL Foundation

Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 (2 years 11 months)

Contributed to the Universal Networking Language project as an NLP expert and Persian linguist (2013–2015), advancing multilingual information representation and achieved Gold Medal in the UNL Olympiad.

NLP Universal Networking Language Terminology Linguistic Formalization Research

Content Manager & Instructor

Tehran University

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 11 months)

Taught translation theory and practice and terminology (2012–2013) and managed web content for the Centre for Organizing Translation and Publication, enhancing academic and public-facing language resources.

Terminology Content Management Curriculum Development Editing Academic Instruction

Senior Research Fellow

CRCIS

Jan 2011 - Dec 2013 (2 years 11 months)

Senior research fellow on the Persian Dependency Treebank project (2011–2013), contributing to corpus development and syntactic annotation for computational linguistics research.

Linguistics Data Annotation Academic & Research

Correspondent & Translator

RIA Novosti

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 11 months)

Worked as correspondent, journalist, multimedia manager and translator (2009–2010), producing bilingual content and managing multimedia translation workflows.

Journalism Translation (Russian English Persian)Multimedia Reporting Editing Content Localization

Technology Transfer Project Manager

Technology Cooperation Office

Jan 1998 - Dec 2009 (11 years 11 months)

Managed technology-transfer projects (1998–2009) across medicine, petrochemicals, aerospace and energy sectors, providing translation, interpretation and cross-disciplinary coordination.

Project Management Technical Translation Interpretation Cross Cultural Communication Technical Documentation