Corpora: JOB OFFERS!!!!

From: Kamil Golebiowski (kamil@interprice.com)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 12:34:34 MET DST

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    JOB OFFERS!!!! JOB OFFERS!!!! JOB OFFERS!!!!
    e-mail: jobs@interprice.com <mailto:jobs@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!

    We have the following requirements

    Software and Language Engineering
    AI/NLP experts for intelligent product search
    =============================================

    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++)

    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

    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++.

    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++)

    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

    mit freundlichen Gruessen

    Kamil Golebiowski - kamil.golebiowski@interprice.com

    fon +49-(0)30-32104150
    fax +49-(0)30-32104152
    handy +49-(0)177-421.58.08
    Interprice GmbH, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
    www.interprice.com
    Map:
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