Ranka Ivanoska

AI Language Evaluator and investigative journalist with 20+ years of experience in research, fact-checking, editorial analysis and content production. Experienced in AI data annotation, language quality assessment, speech data evaluation and multimodal AI tasks. Skilled in evaluating AI-generated responses for accuracy, relevance, grammar, instruction-following and overall quality.

Combines extensive experience in information analysis, source verification and editorial judgment with hands-on experience working on remote AI training projects involving text, audio and image-based datasets.

AI Data Trainer / Language & Multimodal Evaluator at Alignerr (2025-08 – Present)

Worked on AI training and evaluation projects involving language models, speech datasets and multimodal AI systems.

• Evaluated AI-generated responses for accuracy, relevance, grammar and instruction-following.
• Compared and ranked model outputs according to detailed evaluation criteria.
• Provided written reasoning and quality assessments for AI responses.
• Performed language evaluation tasks in Serbian, Macedonian and English.
• Completed translation evaluation and language quality assessment tasks.
• Annotated speech datasets, including Voice Activity Detection (VAD) projects.
• Performed audio annotation and transcription-related tasks.
• Evaluated Visual Question Answering (VQA) datasets involving image and text-based AI outputs.
• Worked independently while following project guidelines and quality standards.

Investigative Journalist at VOICE – Center for Investigative Journalism of Vojvodina (2014 – 2024)

• Conducted investigative research and produced analytical reports on social, political and economic issues.
• Researched public institutions, local governance and community-related topics.
• Conducted interviews, verified sources and analyzed documents.
• Produced fact-based journalistic content requiring accuracy and critical evaluation.

Journalist / Correspondent at Ringier Axel Springer – Alo & Blic Daily Newspapers (2008 – 2014)

• Reported on social, political and economic topics.
• Covered local developments and public affairs in Vojvodina.
• Worked independently under editorial deadlines.

Editor-in-Chief / Journalist at Vrbaske novine (2007 – 2008)

• Managed editorial workflow and publication content.
• Edited and produced news articles and local reporting.

TV Journalist / News Presenter at TV Bačka (2005 – 2007)

• Prepared news reports, conducted interviews and presented news content.

Correspondent / Journalist at Danas Daily Newspaper (2002 – 2004)

Journalist at Kibic Fenster Weekly Magazine (2000 – 2002)

Serbian Language and Literature – University of Novi Sad