NLP Engineer Internship

Trooclick France is a company that specializes in the development of
web applications for the automatic processing of information. Our goal
is to create services that rebuild the user’s trust in digital
content. Up to now, Web players were able to enhance the relevance of
this content; we go a step further and contribute to improve its
reliability with automated fact checking and controversy detection.

Trooclick was created in November 2012. Just a few months later, in
April 2013, it received financial support from the BPI (French public
investment bank) and in June 2013 was granted the Status of “Young
Innovative Company” (JEI), recognizing its innovative nature by the
French government. It now counts fifteen committed and passionate
members in its tight-knit team.

The company carries out R&D projects in search of technical solutions
in the Artificial Intelligence field. Due to its growth, Trooclick is
now looking for candidates for its office in the “Espace Startup” of
Bpifrance on Boulevard Haussmann in the heart of Paris.

Missions:

As a member of the technical team, you will benefit from ongoing
training and you will help us design and build our information
extraction framework based on advanced NLP technologies.

- You will turn ideas into well-documented and reliable linguistic
  resources (both dictionaries and grammars) to ensure efficiency,
  quality, performance and scalability

- A great team player, you will interact with other departments to
  understand and fine tune specifications

- You will carry out unitary testing, create and maintain our test
  validation corpus and participate in editing technical documents

- Development will be done in English

Qualifications:

- BSc/MSc

- Experience with NLP tools such as NooJ, Unitex, Gate, or Stanford
  for linguistic annotation, named entity recognition, relationship
  and fact extraction, sentiment analysis, etc.

- Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python as well as
  XML format to be autonomous in completing several technical tasks

- Experience with basic database management operations (SQL language)

- Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SKOS, etc.) will
  be a plus

- Excellent communication skills in English and French

We are open to new ideas that will significantly contribute to our
success. Our friendly team will provide the opportunity for valuable
collaboration. We offer you career perspectives in a young and dynamic
company with an interesting and diversified scope of duties at the
cutting edge of research. We welcome applications from highly
motivated individuals able to learn new techniques and share knowledge
and experience with the team.

Interested? Then send your application to jobs@trooclick.com!