We are looking for a NLP SCIENTIST. OUR COMPANY Fortia Financial Solutions is a RegTech certified OSEO, created in 2012 and based in Paris. RegTechs offer technical solutions to financial institutions, intended for their compliance activity - that is to say the respect of regulatory and legislative provisions and internal and statutory standards. Fortia Financial Solutions develops a software platform, INNOVA. It is an innovative solution based on Machine-Learning and Artificial Intelligence, dedicated to financial professions. Joining Fortia Financial Solutions means joining a young, dynamic and passionate team. Fortia Financial Solutions is a truly global company. The R&D group Our aim is to implement cutting edge technologies in NLP for the specific application of financial texts analysis. We are working closely with renowned universities. We frequently participate in conferences and university challenges. The candidate will join a group that is mostly focused on semantic text analysis. We use machine learning on top of word embedding representations with dependency parsing, POS tagging and syntactic analysis. The goal is to solve problems in-between slot filling tasks, entity linking and knowledge based creation. Therefore the techniques may vary depending on the exact information to extract. JOB DESCRIPTION Under the supervision of the Chief Research Scientist, you will join the R&D team dedicated to semantic analysis of texts in the specific context of Finance. The role of the candidate is to take ownership of a part of the project from start to deployment, which means: - Define the subtasks to solve - Get data for validation/training for such tasks: get a big set of relevant text and define a Mechanical Turk task, or with any other crowdsourcing company - Define a protocol for cleaning and validation of these tags - Define the architecture of the solution: how the solutions to each task get coordinated, in a way that is not too time/resource consuming - Define a way of numerically obtain the performance of the complete solution - Deploy the solution so it can be tested Depending on the profile, the person will be in charge of a group of 1-2 junior data scientists to develop the project. YOUR PROFILE - We are looking for a highly independent, collaborative and motivated person - With previous experience in the field (phd in NLP or +5 years of experience in NLP projects) - Significant experience in Deep Learning and NLP (PhD specialized in NLP or more than 5 years' experience in NLP projects - You have at least 2 years of experience in PYTHON You carry out an active watch concerning the latest advances in Machine Learning - You participate in technical conferences in AI You master the following subjects: - NLP: neural word embeddings, Name entity recognition (NER), text splitting into sentences, - Machine learning: lstm, cnn, knn, spectral clustering, PCA - Project management: previous use of project management tools such as Jira, trello, etc. Also git version control for the code. - Programming: python (sklearn, keras) Nice to know: - NLP: relation extraction, multi-lingual word embeddings, sentence embeddings, automatic text summarisation, text generation, - Machine learning: auto-encoders, generative models, recommandation systems, reinforcement learning, planning - Project management: definition of unit testing for ML code - Programming: tensorflow, theano - Publications in major conferences in NLP (ideally in Information Extraction) Please feel free to contact Sabrina JEAN-BOLO (sabrina.jeanbolo@fortia.fr) if you have any enquiries concerning this post. Many thanks, Kind regards, Sabrina JEAN-BOLO FORTIA FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS 06 49 28 67 68 sabrina.jeanbolo@fortia.fr