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 Emmanuel GARCIA MICHEL is a linguist. He worked as a French teacher
after obtaining his certification in 2009 from the French Ministry of
Education (middle and high school levels). After several years spent
in France, he took the opportunity to do an international exchange between
France and the Florida Board of Education in 2013-2014. That is how he
went to teach French as a Foreign Language to students from 9th grade
to 12th grade at Pompano Beach High School for almost one year.
Then he decided to take a leave of absence from the French Ministry
of Education and try something new at a private school in Barcelona.
The experience opened his eyes and made him realize that he preferred
to be part of the language process rather than keep describing to teenagers
linguistic and cultural patterns. That is when he decided to return to
college and pursue a master's degree in translation, interpretation,
and linguistic mediation in order to work as a professional translator
and interpreter. He mainly works from Spanish, Catalan, and English to
French, but also from French to Spanish and Catalan. As a freelancer,
he began translating and interpreting in a variety of fields, but in
the meantime, he maintained a connection with teaching by giving French
classes to adults in Spanish companies, focusing on pragmatic and tangible
linguistic tools to be used and applied in real business situations.
When COVID-19 came, working as a freelance translator and teacher became
more and more difficult, even giving classes via Zoom. A new opportunity
arose thanks to the pandemic, and in February 2021, he discovered a field
previously unknown to him: working from home as a linguist for a social
network in order to improve artificial intelligence programs. Through
data labelling tasks, he participated in developing machine learning
patterns and tried to make AI learn more about contextual situations
by working on lexical shades and polysemy. He now works for Apple as
an AI/ML annotation analyst for the French language in order to enhance
the Siri customer experience, using his skills as a linguist and expert
on the French culture.
CONTACT INFORMATION : manu3.garcia@gmail.com
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