Maria Elena M.
Italian NLP Linguist |Translator & Copywriter |Data & Audio Annotation
I am a native Italian linguist, copywriter and translator with hands-on experience in NLP projects, data annotation and audio evaluation, as well as digital content and marketing. On Upwork I have worked on: – document response and creation in Italian, where I analyze documents, extract structured information and generate answers that match a specific user query or schema – text annotation for NLP models, labeling and classifying Italian text and creating high-quality training data for conversational AI and other language technologies – Italian audio annotation and evaluation, listening to audio samples, checking transcription quality and annotating linguistic aspects to support ASR/TTS/NLU systems – sentence generation in Italian based on given keywords and instructions, ensuring natural, grammatically correct language for AI training datasets – performance marketing and media buying for the Italian market, managing social media ad campaigns and adapting messages to the target audience Alongside my NLP and annotation work, I offer: – translation and localization (Italian ↔ English, plus Spanish, French and Albanian) – Italian proofreading, editing and stylistic refinement – Italian transcription (text and audio) – copywriting and storytelling for websites, blogs and social media I have a strong humanities background and an excellent command of Italian grammar and style. I am used to working with clear guidelines, KPIs and remote international teams. My goal is to deliver accurate, consistent and well-structured Italian language data and content that are truly useful for both AI systems and human readers. -Basic Office -Advisor in the social sciences topics
Earnings and projects
An estimate from an earlier read
Last 6 months: $6.5k
Billed in all: $11,366$11k
$816 in the last 6 months
Across 9 contracts
Across 29 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
No data since Nov 5, 2026.
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