Job Opportunities

LT Looking for PhD Students and Interns

Date: July 19, 2017

The LT group is looking for a student in fall 2017. We accept applications for PhD positions as well as interns (3-6 months).

See official job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-mathematik-informatik-und-naturwissenschaften/20-08-17-330.pdf

If you know software development you could contribute to the following projects:
- New/s/leak: Network of Searchable Leaks: Tool for entity-centric document browsing developed with DER SPIEGEL
- Relmed: Adaptive tool in the medical domain for relation-centric biomedical information management

If you'd like to do research on natural language computational semantics, you could find your topic in
- Word senses and their representation
- Joining ontologies and distributional semantics
- Interpretability in machine learning

In application to e.g.
- Aspect-based sentiment analysis
- Software Architecture mining from Stackoverflow
- Short text similarity
- SemEval

Candidates should meet the following requirements:
- M.Sc. in computational linguistics, natural language processing, or similar
- demonstrated software development capabilities

A plus:
- Proficiency in web-baed visualization, e.g. D3.js, node.js
- Machine learning frameworks such as Tensorflow

We are an equal opportunity employer. Female applicants are especially encouraged to apply for considerations of group balance.

Please send your CV and a short letter of motivation to Chris biemann@informatik.uni-hamburg.de .