Archive for June, 2008

THANK YOU!

19 Jun 2008

The SemanticHacker Innovators’ Challenge concluded last night. Thank you to those of you who have entered and good luck! We are eager to start digging into the entries.

A reminder that per the terms of the Official Rules:

Notification of a selection will be made on an individual basis to the Entrant, solely by email to the Entrant’s email address Entrant submitted to Sponsor on the entry form, within 12 weeks after the close of the Challenge, which is Wednesday, September 10, 2008.

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Only 1 full day remaining to submit entries.

17 Jun 2008

A reminder that the SemanticHacker Innovators’ Challenge ends Wednesday @ 11:59pm EST. Or…

10:59pm CST

9:59pm MST

8:59pm PST

Best of luck to those of you who have entered or will be entering by the deadline!

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TextWise is seeking a research scientist.

17 Jun 2008

Research Scientist Position Overview

TextWise LLC is actively undertaking research, development, and productization of semantic technologies. As part of this effort, we have an immediate need for a research scientist to perform the following duties:

  • Investigate and elaborate techniques for representing the semantic content of natural language texts.
  • Develop language-specific and language-independent algorithms and heuristics.
  • Develop software prototypes in order to test these algorithms and heuristics using real world data.
  • Corpus analysis for the discovery of linguistic patterns and features.
  • Develop and maintain content databases for development and testing.
  • Design and perform evaluations of algorithms and prototypes.

Required qualifications for this position are as follows:

  • Masters or PhD in linguistics, computational linguistics, or closely related area.
  • Competence in programming in one or more of the following: C/C++, Perl or Java.
  • Experience in developing and applying corpus-based methods in text analysis.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Experience creating taxonomies and/or ontologies extremely desirable.
  • Experience in machine learning techniques a plus.
  • Fluency (speaking, reading, and language theory) of one foreign language preferred.

TextWise is a small company with a start-up atmosphere. The team style is collaborative and high energy. You will work daily with a team of scientists. In addition, you will also interact with the Software Engineers, Quality Assurance, and Project Management, and Sales.

This position reports to the Chief Science Officer. Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please send resumes and cover letters to job_ref_500 [@] textwise [DOT] com.

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The Challenge will end, but the API will not.

5 Jun 2008

Perhaps there’s some confusion as to whether or not the end of the Challenge brings an end to our open API as well. In fact, it does not. We are working hard on bringing more features to the API even after the Challenge has ended.

Feel free to pop over to the Forum and suggest other useful tools you might like to see made available.

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The Challenge Ends in 14 days.

4 Jun 2008

The SemanticHacker Innovators’ Challenge is scheduled to end on June 18, 2008 at 11:59pm EST. That’s just 14 days from today.

We want to know though – has it been enough time? A Forum topic has been set up for responses here: http://talk.semantichacker.com/javabb/viewtopic.jbb?t=32 or feel free to comment to this blog post.

If we get enough response we may consider a time extension!

Good luck to those of you who have entered already.

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