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<p>The Speech and Language Technology Lab of the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI SLT) is (continually)
looking for<br>
<br>
Student Assistant(s) (m/f/d)<br>
(up to 20 hours/week)<br>
<br>
to support our research team. Candidates should be pursuing a
degree in computer science or in related disciplines, and have
some prior experience in coding. We are looking for people who
enjoy working in an innovative and enthusiastic research group,
love challenges and are passionate about building clever
algorithms and systems. We offer an excellent working environment
with close integration in research projects. The successful
applicant will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team
in one of the world’s foremost research centers in AI and NLP.<br>
<br>
The DFKI SLT group conducts basic and applied research in areas
covering, among others, information extraction, knowledge base
population, dialogue, BioNLP, and summarization. We are
particularly interested in core research on learning in
low-resource settings, reasoning over larger contexts, and
continual learning. We strive for a deeper understanding of human
language and thinking, with the goal of developing novel methods
for processing and generating human language text, speech, and
knowledge. An important part of our work is the creation of
corpora, the evaluation of NLP datasets and tasks, and the
explainability of (neural) models.<br>
<br>
Experience in the following areas is expected:<br>
<br>
• Good development skills in Python<br>
• Good Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures)<br>
<br>
Experience in these areas is a plus:<br>
<br>
• Understanding of basic ML and NLP algorithms and concepts<br>
• Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, Huggingface,
AllenNLP)<br>
• Containerization, Versioning (Docker, Git, etc)<br>
• Other background knowledge in Linguistics, Computer Science or
Mathematics<br>
<br>
Expected General Skills:<br>
<br>
• Good communication and problem-solving skills<br>
• Enjoy working as a member of a team and using their own
initiative<br>
• High degree of motivation<br>
• Ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines<br>
• Good organizational skills<br>
• Good standard of written and spoken English, German is helpful<br>
<br>
How to Apply<br>
<br>
Please send your electronic application (preferably in PDF format)
to David Harbecke (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated
moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:david.harbecke@dfki.de">david.harbecke@dfki.de</a>)
and Dr. Leonhard Hennig (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated
moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:leonhard.hennig@dfki.de">leonhard.hennig@dfki.de</a>).
A meaningful application should include a cover letter, a recent
CV, and a brief summary of professional interests.<br>
<br>
Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.<br>
<br>
More info: <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dfki-nlp.github.io">https://dfki-nlp.github.io</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/DFKI-NLP">https://github.com/DFKI-NLP</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://huggingface.co/DFKI-SLT">https://huggingface.co/DFKI-SLT</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/speech-and-language-technology">https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/speech-and-language-technology</a></li>
</ul>
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Dr.-Ing. Leonhard Hennig
Senior Researcher, Speech & Language Technology
DFKI Labor Berlin
Alt-Moabit 91c, D-10559 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49-30-23895-1821
Office +49-30-23895-1800
E-Mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:leonhard.hennig@dfki.de">leonhard.hennig@dfki.de</a>
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschäftsführung:
Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender)
Helmut Ditzer
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Dr. Ferri Abolhassan
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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