<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Apologies for cross-postings.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">=============================================</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Open PhD/Postdoc position at the DWS Group, Mannheim</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">=============================================</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div>A position is currently open for a (highly motivated) PhD student or early Postdoc at the Data and <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Web </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Science </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">(DWS) Group at the University of Mannheim, Germany, starting this fall.</span></div><div><br></div><div>She/he will work on a project on entity-centric information extraction for the finance domain. <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The project will </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">involve </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">close collaboration with a local company that develops financial software, </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">and will proceed under </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">direction of </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Prof. S. Ponzetto and Prof. H. Stuckenschmidt.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The aim of the project is to design and test new user-centric NLP-based methodologies and <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">services for the </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">personalized extraction of financial entities, events and relations from heteregenous </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">data sources (webpages, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">financial feeds, corporate databases).</span></div><div><br></div><div>Requirements:</div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div>The successful candidate must hold by the time of the appointment <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">a MSc or PhD degree in </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">computational </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">linguistics, artificial </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">intelligence, or computer science. She/he should have the following </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">profile:</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Mandatory:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) hold by the time of the appointment a MSc or PhD degree in computational linguistics, <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">artificial intelligence, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> or computer science,</span></div><div>(2) good software development skills in Java, </div><div>(3) knowledge of semantic web standards, resources and formalisms (SPARQL, <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">OWL and RDF ontologies, first </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> order logic, linked data), and/or databases (SQL), </span></div><div>(4) knowledge of machine learning and/or statistical NLP (POS tagging, NER, <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">parsing, chunking, text </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> classification).</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Nice to have:</div><div><br></div><div>(5) previous experience in either event extraction or recommendation systems</div><div>(6) Python and R, versioning systems, linux,</div><div>(7) constraint programming, (linear) optimization.</div><div><br></div><div>Language:</div><div>========</div><div><br></div><div>Good knowledge of English.</div><div> </div><div>Duration:</div><div>========</div><div><br></div><div>The position is intially for 12 months, but will be extended for up to 4 years. It will start sometime </div><div>from September-October 2015. Compensation will be competitive (3,000-4,000 euros gross per month)</div><div>and based on qualifications <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">and experience. There will be also substantial financial support for conference </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">travel and international </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">outreach.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Location:</div><div>========</div><div><br></div><div>The University of Mannheim, is located in Mannheim (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim</a>), in the heart of </div><div>the Rhineland, close to the business hubs of Frankfurt and Stuttgart, the French border (Strasbourg)</div><div>and Germany's prime wine region. It regularly ranks among the top German universities. The DWS group</div><div>(<a href="http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/home/" target="_blank">http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/home/</a>) is known internationally for its research in semantic </div><div>technologies, NLP, machine learning, data mining and knowledge-based systems.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline, contact:</div><div>=================</div><div><br></div><div>We will consider applications on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is found. If you are interested, please </div><div>send a CV and a motivation letter to:</div><div><br></div><div>-- <a href="mailto:heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de" target="_blank">heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de</a> (H. Stuckenschmidt)</div><div>-- <a href="mailto:camilo.thorne@gmail.com" target="_blank">camilo.thorne@gmail.com</a> (C. Thorne)</div><div><br></div><div>**For informal enquiries, please contact C. Thorne** </div><div><br></div><div>(The University of Mannheim fosters equality of opportunities: minority and female applicants are encouraged </div><div> to apply)</div></div></div></div></div>
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