Our team is looking for an intern in Natural Language Processing for
traditional and simplified Chinese for 6 months.

SESAMm was founded in 2014 and is one of the most dynamic FinTech
startups in France and Luxembourg. SESAMm develops and commercializes
stock market forecasting tools based on social media and other textual
data sources.These products are used by banks and hedge funds. The
company provides financial trading indicators which have been created
using Big Data methods and allowing new approaches for trading
strategies. We develop many new products based on our clients' needs.

SESAMm aims at becoming the international leader of Big Data
technologies for stock market professionals.

Internship Goal: development of new text-analysis and sentiment analysis
methods to create financial trading indicators based on information from
Chinese social media and social trading platforms.

Major Duties:
- Participate in existing and future research projects: analyze existing
  methods, develop original solutions and evaluate them, present results
- Identify relevant sources of information and extract data. Crawling &
  scraping of several data sources.
- Filter and prepare data
- Develop NLP algorithms for traditional and simplified Chinese.
- Write analysis reports

Education Requirements
- Engineering school or university master student: Computer Science,
  Natural Language Processing or similar.

Work Experience and Skills Requirements
- Work Experience: 0-1 year in NLP or computer science.
- Knowledge in NLP, Machine Learning, crawling and scraping.
- Demonstrate ability to create lexical semantic resources for NLP-based
  applications.
- Languages: native Mandarin, traditional and simplified Chinese
  written.
- Programming Skills : Java and scripting languages

The applicant should be able to work in a team and show high
motivation. This internship requires autonomy and curiosity toward a
changing environment. The intern will contribute to the company's most
important technical decisions; thereby this internship will be a
high-level entrepreneurial experience.

Working Conditions
- Percent Time: 100%
- Location: Metz (France)
- Duration: 6 months, starting in February 2016.
 

Join SESAMm, an innovative and ambitious FinTech startup with high
potential.
More information: www.sesamm.com
Please send your application to contact@sesamm.com
Application: resume, interview