NLP Engineer Internship at Storyzy ----- Context ----- Storyzy (http://storyzy.com/) is a startup based in Paris that creates structured data from the text of news articles by extracting all information linked to influencers in the news. It is the first 100% automated content technology driven by what people say thru quotes. Storyzy (previously 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. Storyzy has invested $3 million in R&D, raised $900k in August 2016, and employs 12 people (6 engineers). Due to its growth, Storyzy is now looking for candidates for its office in the "Incubateur Boucicaut" on rue de Lourmel in 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 & code 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 ----- - Experience with NLP tools such as NooJ, Unitex or Stanford for linguistic annotation, named entity recognition, relationship and fact extraction, sentiment analysis, etc. - Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python and with database management - Knowledge of Java and Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, 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. ----- Contact ----- Interested? Then send your application to jobs@storyzy.com! *Audrey Champeau * *NLP Engineer * ------------------------------ +33 6 86 61 36 50 audrey.champeau@storyzy.com *Storyzy *Incubateur Boucicaut 130 rue de Lourmel 75015 PARIS storyzy.com (http://www.storyzy.com/)