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Internship at Yahoo! Research Barcelona
Company: Yahoo!
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Group: Information Retrieval Research group
General background: Internship will take place in a small research
and engineering team focusing on Information Retrieval (Ranking,
Summarization) using Yahoo! News data.
Graduate students are offered an opportunity to work as a team on
cutting-edge, real-world applied research problems. The intern will
participate in designing, development (prototype product) and
evaluating the product (experimental system), serving Yahoo! News
readers around the world in one of the following areas:
 topic-sensitive ranking of texts
 automated summarization
The internship gives students an opportunity to influence the next
generation of Yahoo! products.
Responsibilities:
 Contribute to ideation, scoping, and definition of research
problems;
 Conduct independent and team research;
 Prototype algorithms and experiment on large amounts of realworld data;
 Collaborate with engineers on feature implementation.
Required skills:
 MSc student interested in an IR-related research topic. The
position is open for prospective MSc students and Direct Track
(MEITAR) students subject to their enrolment in the MSc program
before the start of the internship.
 Strong programming skills (Java/C#/Python).
 Algorithm development skills.
 Background in Information Retrieval, Text Mining or Machine
Learning areas – a strong advantage.
 Background in Mobile Development - a strong advantage.
Full/Part time position: Full time student position for the
internship period (July – September or August – September 2013)
Salary / Funding: Yahoo! salary: 500 Euro per month; Flight ticket
partially funded by BGU.
Apply for this position: Please send your resume in English to Dr.
Marina Litvak ([email protected]) or Prof. Mark Last
([email protected])