Posted Aug 10, 2017 4 views
Data Scientist (Natural Language Processing)
Responsibilities
- Build methods for document clustering, topic modeling, text classification, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and POS tagging
- Perform elements of data cleaning, feature selection and feature engineering and organise experiments in conjunction with best practices
- Work with the business team to ensure models can be implemented as part of a delivered solution replicable across many domains
- Visualise data to tell compelling stories
Requirements
- 2 + years’ experience with Machine Learning, NLP, Document Classification, Topic Modeling and Information Extraction with a proven track record of applying them to real problems and real data
- Experience working with big data systems and big data concepts
- Strong team player; ability to provide both a strong individual contribution but also work as a team and contribute to wider goals is a must in this dynamic environment
- Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data
- Some experience with deep learning
- Strong coding ability with statistical analysis tools in Python or R, and general software development skills (source code management, debugging, testing, deployment, etc.)
- Working knowledge of various text mining algorithms and their use-cases
- Strong understanding of text pre-processing and normalization techniques, such as tokenization, POS tagging and parsing and how they work at a low level.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Practical experiences in using NLP related techniques and algorithms
- Experience in open source coding and communities desirable
Education Bachelors or higher in data mining or machine learning; or equivalent practical analytics / modelling experience
Job Details
Idea Centricity
IdeaCentricity is a for-profit startup dedicated to solving complex social problems including poverty, energy wastage and social injustice in a sustainable manner. It is ranked amongst top 15 startups in GIST Tech-I (2013) and is the 2nd prize winner in Pakistan Start-up cup. The company is being run by experienced management team with more than a decade experience in the IT and tech industry. There are lots of opportunities for learning, exposure to world-class mentors along with high growth prospects for the successful candidates.
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