Company Description and Background
AOL is a media technology company with a mission to simplify the internet for consumers and creators by unleashing the world's best builders of culture and code. Relegence is a R&D team within AOL responsible for text analysis technologies. It builds and maintains a semantic analysis platform for AOL, servicing publisher and advertising groups throughout the company.
Project Description
Relegence taxonomy contains over 2 million subjects and entities. It is used to categorize and classify AOL and 3rd party content for a number of services across the company. Due to new products and increased demand, Relegence taxonomy team is looking for 2 interns to contribute to ongoing efforts in expanding automated classification and taxonomy coverage.
Position
The role focuses on creating semantic rules that automate subject tagging for content by matching text found in news articles.
The tasks include:
- Understanding of taxonomy and metadata
- Researching contextual information
- Semantic rule-writing
- Review of peers work
- Quality testing of rules results and improvement of existing rules
Senior taxonomists will train, advise and supervise the candidates.
Hours: Flexible, 16-40 hours per week
Dates: Somewhat flexible, but we are looking to start this month. Project should last at least several months.
Compensation: $25.00 per hour
Qualifications
- Must be a MLIS student.
Skills, Coursework and Interests (in any of these areas)
Preferred but not required:
Skills, Coursework and Interests (in any of these areas)
Preferred but not required:
- taxonomy, metadata or classification
- semantic technologies or computer science
- information architecture or information organization
- information retrieval and search
- indexing and thesaurus
- web publishing
Location
We are hiring in both our New York City and Boston offices.
NYC office: 770 Broadway
Boston office: Downtown Crossing
To apply:
Please apply online at https://www.smartrecruiters.
