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I am KHOTSO THELINGOANE, an AI Trainer and Sesotho sa Leboa language specialist with hands-on experience in AI data annotation, model fine-tuning, and linguistic validation. I thrive on refining datasets for generative AI models and ensuring cultural and dialectal accuracy across dialects and registers. I work well in remote freelance settings and am dedicated to AI alignment and human-in-the-loop systems. I excel at evaluating outputs, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to improve model performance, while bringing deep linguistic insight and practical experience to AI training workflows.…I am KHOTSO THELINGOANE, an AI Trainer and Sesotho sa Leboa language specialist with hands-on experience in AI data annotation, model fine-tuning, and linguistic validation. I thrive on refining datasets for generative AI models and ensuring cultural and dialectal accuracy across dialects and registers. I work well in remote freelance settings and am dedicated to AI alignment and human-in-the-loop systems. I excel at evaluating outputs, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to improve model performance, while bringing deep linguistic insight and practical experience to AI training workflows.

KHOTSO THELINGOANE

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I am KHOTSO THELINGOANE, an AI Trainer and Sesotho sa Leboa language specialist with hands-on experience in AI data annotation, model fine-tuning, and linguistic validation. I thrive on refining datasets for generative AI models and ensuring cultural and dialectal accuracy across dialects and registers. I work well in remote freelance settings and am dedicated to AI alignment and human-in-the-loop systems. I excel at evaluating outputs, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to improve model performance, while bringing deep linguistic insight and practical experience to AI training workflows.…I am KHOTSO THELINGOANE, an AI Trainer and Sesotho sa Leboa language specialist with hands-on experience in AI data annotation, model fine-tuning, and linguistic validation. I thrive on refining datasets for generative AI models and ensuring cultural and dialectal accuracy across dialects and registers. I work well in remote freelance settings and am dedicated to AI alignment and human-in-the-loop systems. I excel at evaluating outputs, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to improve model performance, while bringing deep linguistic insight and practical experience to AI training workflows.

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I am KHOTSO THELINGOANE, an AI Trainer and Sesotho sa Leboa language specialist with hands-on experience in AI data annotation, model fine-tuning, and linguistic validation. I thrive on refining datasets for generative AI models and ensuring cultural and dialectal accuracy across dialects and registers. I work well in remote freelance settings and am dedicated to AI alignment and human-in-the-loop systems.

I excel at evaluating outputs, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to improve model performance, while bringing deep linguistic insight and practical experience to AI training workflows.

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Work Experience

AI Data Annotator / Linguist at Outlier AI

January 1, 2025 - Present

Annotated and curated datasets for AI/ML training, ensuring linguistic accuracy in Sesotho sa Leboa. Evaluated AI-generated text based on rubrics (factuality, fluency, cultural relevance). Trained models on dialectal variations, slang, and formal vs. informal registers. Collaborated with AI researchers to improve model performance via iterative feedback.

Content Editor / Writer (Sesotho sa Leboa & English) at Appen International

January 1, 2025 - Present

Produced and edited bilingual content for educational materials, media, etc. Applied structured guidelines to maintain consistency in large-scale text corpora. Worked with translation/localization teams to adapt content for AI training.

AI Text Evaluation (Sesotho sa Leboa) at Self-Directed / Freelance

January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

Manually scored 1000+ AI-generated responses for fluency, bias, and factual correctness. Identified common failure modes (e.g., literal translations, grammatical errors).

Bilingual Corpus Annotation at Self-Directed / Freelance

January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

Tagged linguistic features (sentiment, named entities) in Sesotho sa Leboa datasets. Contributed to benchmarking metrics for African language NLP models.