Job Opening for Project Assistant under IMPRINT Project
Project Name: A Platform for Crosslingual and Multilingual Event Monitoring in Indian Languages
Funding Agency: MHRD, Govt. Of India
Position: Project Assistant
Summary of the project:
- To build a multi-lingual event monitoring platform to identify, extract and classify events of interest from news media.
- An end-to-end system will be built and demonstrated for English and a few Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and domains such as health, conflict events and disaster.
- The necessary NLP tools will be developed for the corresponding Indian languages.
- The designed system will be modular and customizable to facilitate addition and adaptation of languages, domains and other sources such as social media.
- A user-friendly visualization interface will also be developed, which will support retrieval and analytics driven by user query.
Required Qualifications:
A postgraduate or bachelor degree in Design or related area. Good exposure to Interface design of APPs. To work closely with Developers from different member institutes of the consortium (IITKGP, IIT Patna, IIT Bombay and AU-KBC) and to deliver point 5 as mentioned above.
Duration: An initial appointment for 6 months and possible renewal for another 6 months
Remuneration:
12000 to 15000 per month based on experience and qualification.
How to Apply
Please send a CV and a Statement of Purpose (SOP) by email with a subject line “IMPRINT-DAIICT” at p_majumder@daiict.ac.in. Deadline 15th August 2019