Corpora: JOB OFFERS @ Interprice Technologies Berlin, Germany

[Kamil Golebiowski]

JOB OFFERS!!!!	JOB OFFERS!!!!  	JOB OFFERS!!!!

e-mail: jobs at interprice.com <mailto:jobs at interprice.com>

Interprice has many opportunities for talented, creative, and energetic
people looking for a real challenge. You'll have the chance to help build a
language and multi modal user interfaces from the ground up, work with
highly motivated  people in a high performance team, and contribute to the
growth of the most dynamic industry in the world today.

Interprice offers competitive compensation plans and benefit programs, an
opportunity to participate in the equity of the company, and has a clear
focus on the employees. We are an equal  opportunities employer with a
clear bias "against bias" and we recruit world wide. In order to attract
key global players we also offer "e-commute" positions!


1. Speech recognition
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 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++)


2. Knowledge representation
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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


3. Computational semantics/information extraction
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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++.


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


5. Corpora, annotation
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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
mit freundlichen Gruessen

Kamil Golebiowski - kamil.golebiowski at interprice.com

Interprice Technologies
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
10553 Berlin, Germany
fon      +49-(0)30-345 077 -0
fax      +49-(0)30-345 077 -77
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