Vacancies

• Student Assistants
• Visiting Research
• Industry Internships
• Industry Job Positions

We are looking for students who want to contribute to the developments of our research group. Simply ask a member of our group if you are both eager to learn and interested in one of the following areas:

• Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval
• efficient algorithms and data structures
• advanced software and Web technologies

No vacancies are available at the moment.

These vacancies are intended for Media Systems students (bachelor in a higher semester or master). Ask a member of our group if you want to apply.

• IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
  San Jose, California 95141
  
  
• Spock Networks Inc.
  Redwood City, California 94063

We are looking for top quality computational linguistics students for an exciting opportunity to work on problems related to Information Extraction and Cross-document Entity Resolution. This position with Spock Networks offers one of the largest databases in the field, ample hardware, and a team of engineers focused on the problems. The internship will will offer a competitive salary and free housing near our headquarters in Redwood City, California (in the heart of Silicon Valley). Responsibilities [to be determined from the following two areas, depending on the candidate's interests]:

• Research and develop algorithms to reduce the degree of duplication in Spock's profile database while minimizing false positives. The candidate will then test these algorithms by running experiments on a massive scale.
• Developing automatic processes to find additional web pages which match existing Spock profiles, enhancements to Spock algorithms for deriving "tags" describing a person from web references, and enhancements to Spock algorithms for deriving profiles from web pages

Requirements:

• Graduate student working on an M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, or related field
• Thesis focus on entity resolution preferred or information extraction preferred, but other topics related to computational linguistics will also be considered
• Strong hands-on skills in working with natural language text in Java, Python, and/or Perl
• Hands-on experience with open source toolkits applicable to the problem
• Experience with related technologies such as relation extraction, clustering algorithms, machine learning, knowledge acquisition, and metrics for measuring entity resolution accuracy is strongly desired

For successful graduates we support to make contact with IT companies.