28.914, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)

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Subject: 28.914, Jobs:  Computational Linguistics: Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)

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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:15:35
From: Aljoscha Burchardt [Aljoscha.Burchardt at dfki.de]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Berlin, Germany

 
University or Organization: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) 
Department: Language Technology
Job Location: Berlin, Germany 
Job Title: Researcher
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) is seeking
for its Language Technology Lab in Berlin to fill two full-time positions as
Researchers in language technology, primarily in the areas of deep processing,
large-scale information extraction and text analytics. The focus will be on
the automatic detection of relations, including events, facts, opinions and
sentiments. Application areas range from machine translation to information
extraction.
 
We are looking for people who enjoy working in an innovative and enthusiastic
research team, love challenges and are passionate about research and
development. We offer an excellent working environment with a variety of
research projects. The successful applicant will work in a multi-disciplinary
and international team in one of the world’s foremost research centers in AI
and NLP.

The candidates should have a master degree in computational linguistics,
computer science or related disciplines. 
 
Expertise and experience in more than one of the following areas is expected: 

- Relation extraction 
- NER and entity linking 
- Opinion mining 
- Sentiment analysis 
- Text data mining 
- Machine learning 
  
Experience in these areas is a plus: 

- Natural language parsing  
- Language data (corpora, dictionaries, thesauri) 
- Computational semantics 
- Mathematical background (probability & statistics) 
 
Expected Programming Skills: 

- Experience with programming in Java
- Experience with scripting languages Python/Perl 
- Experience in web and/or database technology 
- A good grasp of algorithms and software architectures 

Expected General Skills:

- Good communication and teamwork skills 
- Excellent problem-solving skills 
- High degree of motivation
- Able to manage own workload and meet deadlines
- Good organizational skills
- Good standard of written and spoken English
- Good standard of written and spoken German is helpful

Pay:

Successful candidates will be offered a competitive salary based on their
qualifications and experience.

How to Apply:

Please send your electronic application (preferably in PDF format) to Prof.
Dr. Hans Uszkoreit and Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt (see email addresses for
application below) referring to job opening No. 15-17/HU. A meaningful
application should include a cover letter, a recent CV, and a brief summary of
professional interests, and contact information for three references.



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2017 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: aljoscha.burchardt at dfki.de, hans.uszkoreit at dfki.de 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt 
	Email: Aljoscha.Burchardt at dfki.de 
	Phone: +493023895 1838 


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