IIT Patna — COIL-D Project (Bhashini, MeitY, Govt. of India)

Freelance Translator & Machine Translation Evaluation (COIL-D / Bhashini, MeitY-funded)

  • Fully remote
  • Contract
  • Posted 6 Aug 2026
  • Verified source
RoleContent & Writing
CompanyIIT Patna — COIL-D Project (Bhashini, MeitY, Govt. of India)
Experience1–3 years
Employment typeContract
RemoteFully remote — work from home
Applicant eligibilityIndia
SourceIIT Patna COIL-D project page (MeitY-funded) view original listing
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About the role

Job description

IIT Patna's COIL-D (Centre of Indian Language Data) project — funded by MeitY, Government of India under the Bhashini National Language Translation Mission — is hiring freelance translators for translation and machine translation (MT) evaluation work under a rolling advertisement (Advt No R&D/690/692/MeitY/537). Work is remote and freelance. Applicants should have a Master's degree (language/linguistics background preferred; knowledge of Hindi, Odia, Bengali or Maithili is relevant). Send your resume (PDF) and required documents to the email on the project page.

Responsibilities

Translate and evaluate machine translation output for Indian languages as part of the national language resources repository; contribute to corpus creation and annotation under the COIL-D project.

Qualifications

Master's degree required (M.A. in Language/Linguistics or related discipline preferred); knowledge of Hindi and/or Odia, Bengali, Maithili; experience with corpus creation and annotation is an advantage.

Key skills

  • Translation
  • Hindi
  • Odia
  • Bengali
  • Machine translation evaluation
  • Linguistics

Working arrangement

Remote freelance work — rolling advertisement, no fixed deadline.

Who can apply

India. Confirm your location eligibility on the official listing before applying.

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