Sara Maria Hasbun

Sara Maria Hasbun

Managing Director at Meridian Linguistics

Qualifications

Founder and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics, providing Asian-language training data, annotation, and translation to technology companies

Former Translation Product Manager and Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate (Beijing)

Psycholinguistics researcher; clients include Naver, Alibaba, Airbnb, The Economist, and The New York Times

Expertise

Localization

Translation

Linguistics

Language Data & Annotation

Machine Translation

Psycholinguistics

founded Meridian Linguistics to help technology companies develop multilingual products and services for Asia. We specialize in collecting, annotating, translating, transcribing, and analyzing multilingual speech and text training data. Concurrently with running Meridian, I also oversee the Translation and International Transcription as Product Manager at Cadence Translate (Beijing), spearheading the launch of new technology (TMS, CAT, MT) and operational procedures.

Experience

Founder, Managing Director at Meridian Linguistics Ltd.

Jan 2012 — Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

Provides Asian-language training data, linguistic annotation, and translation to technology companies; oversees project managers and 5000+ freelance linguists.

Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate

Feb 2022 to Dec 2022 · 10 mos

Led linguist experience and recruitment/evaluation systems for translators and transcribers.

Translation Product Manager at Cadence Translate

Apr 2020 to Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Owned the text translation and non-English transcription product; launched training courses and security procedures, opened a Singapore office.

Project Manager at Geotext Translations

Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 · 1 yr

Managed multilingual translation projects and CAT tool implementation on tight deadlines.

Proofreader at Geotext Translations

Jan 2012 to Nov 2012 · 10 mos

Provided multilingual quality control using foreign-language expertise.

Graduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant - Psycholinguistics at New York University

Jan 2010 to Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

Designed and analyzed experiments on cognitive representations of music and language.

Qualifications

Founder and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics, providing Asian-language training data, annotation, and translation to technology companies

Former Translation Product Manager and Head of Linguist Experience at Cadence Translate (Beijing)

Psycholinguistics researcher; clients include Naver, Alibaba, Airbnb, The Economist, and The New York Times

Expertise

Localization

Translation

Linguistics

Language Data & Annotation

Machine Translation

Psycholinguistics

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