Job Title : Automated Language Processing & Classification Analyst

Industry Sector : Media

Salary : Competitive

Location : UK

Job Type : Permanent

Job Description :

Automated Language Processing

You’re the type of person who always knows about the latest news trends and has a real passion for text analysis and technology. Help to build the product which, in an instant, can deliver relevant financial business news to change the direction of our clients’ critically important business decisions.

As a member of our team, you will be responsible for automated classification of the world's most important financial and economic news with a leader in the financial news market.

You will use specialized software in order to create hierarchical rules that automatically classify information, as well as data from social media sites. You need to have a keen interest in current affairs and perform research in order to identify news topics that are particularly relevant to the French market and modify or create news classification rules accordingly. You will also identify opportunities to create efficiency in our processes and execute on your ideas.

You will closely collaborate with our partners in Product Strategy, Sales, Analytics and Engineering to understand our clients’ needs and build a market-leading product. You will also partner with our Sales and Analytics groups to promote our product and ensure strong customer uptake.

You will have the chance to learn more about the fields of statistical classification, natural language processing, data science, machine learning and text analysis as we build the next-generation of classification products.

The Client uses proprietary and open-source software to automatically retrieve, parse, organize and tag news from social media sites, news feeds, web sites and other sources . They also build and maintain their complex taxonomy of classification tags according to their clients’ needs. Their work is not theoretical or hyper-specific – it is practical and impactful.

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Role requires:

    Bachelor’s degree in disciplines such as Data Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business, Finance, Library Science, or other computer-related specialization
    Native ability in spoken and written French
    Strong interest/ knowledge in financial and economic news
    Excellent problem solving skills and ability to pay close attention to detail
    Strong written and verbal communication skills
    Proven understanding of customer service and experience in building strong relationships with stakeholders
    1 - 3 years of professional project management experience in information management with the ability to deliver on tight deadlines
    Working knowledge of a programming or query language and experience of using it for a data analysis/data science project (e.g. R, Python, JavaScript, SQL, etc.)

We need someone with :

    Knowledge of French market trends, themes and drivers
    Experience working on data science projects and technologies, especially using NLP techniques to deal with unstructured text corpora
    Experience in editing, writing, curating or assigning news stories
    Experience in using categorization, filtering or mining software (such as OpenCalais, Datasift, GNIP, Inxight, IDOL, Verity, Clear Forest, Microsoft Fast)