GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest infrastructure institu-tion for the Social Sciences in Germany. The GESIS department "Knowledge Tech-nologies for the Social Sciences" (WTS) is focused on advancing digital services for the Social Sciences on the basis of novel knowledge technologies. To ensure a high quality of GESIS services WTS is carrying out research in Information Retrieval and Semantic Web.
For the EU-funded project “Open Mining Infrastructure for Text and Data (OpenMinTeD)” we are looking for a
Research Associate (f/m) in the field of Information Extraction / Text Mining
(salary group TV-L EG 13, up to 100%, limited to May 31, 2018)
at our location in Cologne, by February 1, 2017.
Your tasks will be:
- Development of services for mining scientific publications (named entity recogni-tion and disambiguation, recognition of data citations, topic detection, automatic categorization, extraction of key messages, context-sensitive searches)
- Evaluation of Text Mining services with users,
- Integration of the services in Information Retrieval systems,
- Research in the area of Text Mining and Information Retrieval,
- Cooperation with OpenMinTeD partners,
- Publication of project results.
Your profile:
- Excellent university degree in computer science or comparable field,
- Very good knowledge and experience in Text Mining, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
- Solid experience in software development with Java, Web- and XML-technologies, database and search technologies,
- High degree of problem solving and communication skills as well as team capabilities,
- Willingness to travel and to cooperate with project partners,
- Good knowledge in spoken and written German and English.
We support your career development. Information about career paths and opportunities can be found here. GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations governing part-time employment will be ob-served. GESIS promotes the professional equality for wom-en and men and is certified by the European work & family audit.
For further information concerning job description please contact Peter Mutschke under telephone +49 (0)221-47694-500 or via Email peter.mutschke(at)gesis(dot)org.
We only process online applications. Please apply here until December 16, 2016.
The number is WTS-43
Job adversitement at GESIS website: http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/jobs-at-gesis/job-details/news/detail/News/research-associate-fm-in-the-field-of-information-extraction-text-mining-salary-group-tv-l-eg/
Kind regards,
Peter Mutschke
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Acting Head of Department
Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500
Mail: peter.mutschke@gesis.org
www.gesis.org
http://www.gesis.org/en/institute/gesis-scientific-departments/knowledge-technologies-for-the-social-sciences/