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Two Transcribers wanted (NOW CLOSED)
(Targeted at students of German Literature or other Humanities subjects)

The early career research group eTRAP is looking for Student Assistants. The research group is associated with the Institute of Computer Science and operates from the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH). Further information about the research group and its work can be found at http://www.etrap.eu.

Job description
We are looking for applicants interested in joining the research group on TrAIN, a new project which was recently awarded the sum of €20,000 by the University of Göttingen. TrAIN, which stands for Tracing Authorship in Noise, will run for the duration of six months from 1st June 2016. The aim of the project is to obtain digital and searchable copies of the original correspondence of the Grimm brothers – the famous authors of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The digital copies will be obtained in two different ways, namely by the use of an HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) tool and multiple OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools. The output of such work will then be used to further research in the fields of stylometry and authorship attribution.
We are hiring 2 students for the duration of 3 months (extendable contract) who will act as the transcribers of the team. They will work with Transkribus, an HTR tool used to transcribe handwritten texts.

Requirements
The Student Assistant provides support to the research group with essential tasks. (S)he is supervised in his/her work by one or more Researchers. The position takes into account the class and exam schedules of the student.
All candidates should:

  • Be enrolled as a student at the University of Göttingen;
  • Be fluent in German (possibly native);
  • Possess excellent written and spoken English (B2-C1 level);
  • Have an eye for detail and a sense of initiative;
  • Possess excellent communication skills, needed for working in an interdisciplinary and intercultural team;
  • Be curious about the project and willing to contribute own knowledge to the group’s tasks and brainstorming sessions;
  • Be enthusiastic about acquiring new skills and dealing with unknown topics;
  • Be perseverant while carrying out a challenging task;
  • Possess own laptop.

If you wish to apply, please send a CV (which includes your background and areas of interest) to etrap-applications@gcdh.de before May 31st 2016.
For further questions, do not hesitate to contact us at the same address.
We look forward to reading your application!

eTRAP team

Call for Student Assistants (NOW CLOSED)

The early career research group eTRAP is looking for Student Assistants. The research group is associated with the Institute of Computer Science and operates from the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities.

General description

The Student Assistant provides support to the research group with essential tasks. (S)he is supervised in his/her work by one or more eTRAP Researchers. The position takes into account the class and exam schedules of the student.

All candidates should:

  • Be enrolled as a student at the University of Göttingen;
  • Possess excellent written and spoken English (B2-C1 level);
  • Have an eye for detail and a sense of initiative;
  • Possess excellent communication skills, needed for working in an interdisciplinary and intercultural team;
  • Be curious about the project and willing to contribute own knowledge to the group’s tasks and brainstorming sessions;
  • Be enthusiastic about acquiring new skills and dealing with unknown topics.

Job descriptions

We are looking for applicants with a solid background in IT, preferably coming from a Computer Science programme. Applicants should fit ONE of the following three profiles:

Front-end Developer
  • HTML5, CSS3, Javascript;
  • Relational and/or graph databases;
  • Experience with versioning systems such as GitHub, Subversion, Mercurial;
  • Experience with build systems, such as Apache ANT or Maven;
  • Good to excellent skills in user interface design.
Back-end Developer
  • Good to excellent skills in Java or Python;
  • Capable of Bash/Shell scripting;
  • Capable of bulk loading of data into databases;
  • Experience with data backups;
  • Experience with versioning systems such as GitHub, Subversion, Mercurial;
  • Experience with build systems, such as Apache ANT or Maven.

Preferable:

  • Experience with integration of heterogeneous data;
  • Experience with system administration.
Developer working with algorithms in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Good to excellent skills in Java or Python;
  • Experience with working with texts;
  • Excellent marks in courses related to algorithms.

Preferable:

  • Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Applicants should have 1 to 3 years of active experience with the elements contained in each job description. We welcome applicants with a background in industry/business or who have worked in another research project for longer than 6 months. Furthermore, we welcome students who are interested in writing their Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD thesis with our research group.

If you wish to apply, please send a CV (which includes a list of projects you have worked in, where applicable) and some of your most recent code to etrap-applications(at)gcdh(dot)de

For further questions, do not hesitate to contact us at the same address.

We look forward to reading your application!