Yahia Kedadria
@yahiakedadria
Trilingual English language specialist who evaluates and trains LLMs through rigorous linguistic error analysis.
What I'm looking for
I’m a trilingual English language specialist with an academic foundation in linguistics, translation methodology, and cross-cultural communication. I bring native Arabic fluency and deep analytical command of English to create training and evaluation that reflects real-world language complexity.
Since 2022, I’ve worked as an AI Language Evaluator & Data Specialist on remote contract platforms including Appen, Remotasks, and OneForma. I stress-test advanced LLMs on English grammar, verb aspect, idiomatic usage, and cultural pragmatics, then document reproducible failure modes such as tense confusion, semantic drift, and pragmatic inappropriateness.
I evaluate model-generated text against factual accuracy and logical soundness benchmarks, flagging hallucinations and reasoning errors with structured error traces. I also apply contrastive analysis across Arabic–English and French–English to surface cross-linguistic transfer errors that monolingual evaluators often miss.
Alongside AI evaluation, I’ve worked as a freelance translator & linguist since 2021, delivering Arabic ↔ English and French ↔ English translations across technical, legal, and general-purpose domains. I onboarded with Midlocalize as a vendor linguist and use systematic quality-check procedures to verify accuracy, fluency, and cultural appropriateness—an approach I bring to my AI training work as well.
Experience
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AI Language Evaluator
Appen, Remotasks & OneForma
Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 4 months)
Designed linguistically rich conversation scenarios to stress-test advanced LLMs on English grammar, idiomatic usage, and cultural pragmatics, documenting reproducible failure modes. Evaluated outputs for factual accuracy and logical soundness, flagging hallucinations and reasoning errors with structured error traces and proposing clearer task instructions and evaluation rubrics.
Freelance Translator & Linguist
Self Employed
Jan 2021 - Present (5 years 4 months)
Provided Arabic↔English and French↔English translations across technical, legal, and general domains while maintaining terminological consistency and register fidelity. Applied quality-assurance and post-editing workflows for translation review, using morphological analysis and dialectal variation handling to improve accuracy and cultural appropriateness.
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University Studies
Bachelor's Degree, Translation & Linguistics
Activities and societies: Core coursework includes general linguistics, English syntax/morphology/semantics/pragmatics, discourse analysis, translation theory, and contrastive linguistics; applied cross-linguistic analysis projects.
Pursuing a Bachelor's degree focused on translation and linguistics, with coursework in English syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Completed applied linguistic analysis projects comparing English with Arabic and French.
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