11.1757, Jobs: NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies/Germany

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Subject: 11.1757, Jobs: NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies/Germany

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1)
Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:08:08 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany

2)
Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:08:51 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany

3)
Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:09:18 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany

4)
Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:09:38 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany

5)
Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:10:01 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:08:08 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP / KA / KR / AI
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
Department:
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

1. Speech recognition
- -------------------
 You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

        * a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a
related area
        * ideally a PhD in speech recognition
        * very good knowledge of statistics
        * expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
        of professional experience in this area
        * familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
        * very good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:08:51 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP / KA / KR / AI
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
Department:
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

2. Knowledge representation
 ---------------------------

Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of
products, adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available
on the Internet.  You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on
the one side and database specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation
        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
        languages; ability to assess their value for our project
        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
        domain knowledge
        * programming skills in Java would be an asset


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:09:18 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP / KA / KR / AI
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
Department:
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

3. Computational semantics/information extraction
- -----------------------------------------------

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user
queries in arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a
knowledge representation expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,
        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
        (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)
        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
        related areas,
        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:09:38 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP / KA / KR / AI
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
Department:
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

4. Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
- --------------------------------------------------------

Your possible work areas with our company include:
        + statistical parsing
        + statistical models for the construction of meaning
        representations
        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology
        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:
        * expertise in at least one of the above areas
        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
        methods
        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
        linguistics or a related area
        * good programming skills (C/C++)


-------------------------------- Message 5 -------------------------------

Date:  9 Aug 2000 17:10:01 -0000
From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Germany


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: NLP / KA / KR / AI
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
Department:
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: no final date
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

5. Corpora, annotation
- --------------------------

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of
training corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and
report to a statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation
of training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics
        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of
        corpora (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)
        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
        (e.g., POS tagging)
        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages
        * good command of German and English
        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset

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