A9.com

A9.com is into providing product search services on Amazon and many e-commerce websites. A9.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.

Offices: Palo Alto, California and Bangalore, India
Areas of work: Search(product search specifically)


The interface is pleasing enough and A9 is a good platform for searching for products. Especially, the product description section has enough detail about the features of the product.

The interface also features the 'suggest' facility giving us hints of few possible combinations of phrases.
From the job profile provided by A9(Please report if the link is broken), I guess, the company is involved in Information Extraction, Data Mining. And seems they are also trying to use log files(feedback for improvement).
A9 is another company that works in computational linguistics, natural language processing and information retrieval.

TextWise

TextWise

Textwise is into building semantic technology solutions. Similarity search, concept tagging, content categorization, etc are few solutions provided by the company.
From the AboutUs page of the company's website, they are into fields like extraction, search, categorization and classification using both NLP and statistics for building solutions.

The company was formerly MNIS and MNIS- TextWise Labs.

Headquarters: Rochester, New York.
Funding type: VC funded
Founded: 1994

What is this hacker language? - 2

The hacker language is also called Leet. In one sense, Leet is an adjective used to refer substitution ciphers.
This kind of speak is also called as leet speak.

The grammar section in this article is something that caught my eye.
"Leet enjoys a looser grammar than standard English."

So will NLP systems in future focus on the leet grammar? No doubt that is too ambitious. Hopefully once people come up with systems that can understand human language, this can be achieved.
How can be the problems of Named Entity Recognition, multi-word expression finding be mapped in such languages? :P

Guess, there would be movie on AI on this kind of systems that can crack hacker's language.
Cool....... I think my thinking is going too wild :P

Looking for Internship in France???

Xerox Research Center Europe is part of Xerox Innovation Group with over 550 researchers and engineers and is working in the areas of Parsing & Semantics, Machine Learning, Large Scale Data Mining, Textual & Visual Pattern Analysis, cross-language technologies, statistical analysis, xml, visualization or software development.

Organization: Xerox Research Centre, Europe.
Location: Grenoble.
Working Language: English
Employees and Researchers: ~ 550
Website: www.xrce.xerox.com

The center also has internship positions for Master's and PhD students in mathematics, linguistics, psychology.
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/internships/home.html

A good news for Indian students :)
Xerox also has Open Innovation partnerships with institutions in India.
More details about this are available at:
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/internships/home_India.html

There are few demos available on their site
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/homepage.en.html

The language guesser/ identifier demo is appreciable effort and it would be good if such work is done for Indian Languages too. :)

I feel XRCE is a good place for students pursuing their Master's degree to do an internship.

PS: Please update me of any broken links in this post.
PS2: The information provided is subject to change. Please check the main site for more details. :)

H5 Technologies

I was browsing and found this company that works on providing solutions for IR and document analysis for legal departments and other law firms.
They have offices in SF and New York. They also have an office in Mumbai.
The work is interesting and here is a brief description of the company.

Location: SF, NY
Work: IR and Document Retrieval for law firms and legal departments.
Areas: NLP, IE, IR, Linguistics.
More about the company at http://www.h5.com/about/index.html

Here is a short description of the company:

H5 is the leading provider of information retrieval and document analysis
services for Fortune 500 corporate legal departments and leading law firms.
H5 was recognized with a number three ranking among the fastest growing
technology companies by Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program. H5, a
privately held company with strong venture capitalist backing, was also
included in the "Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2007" report by
premier analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.

H5 is an information retrieval firm that helps law firms and corporations
search, assess, and manage electronically stored information. Through a
full range of advisory, document review, and litigation support services,
H5 finds the information clients need for litigation and investigations,
compliance, and litigation readiness. Our approach - which combines
advanced technologies with expertise in law, linguistics, computer science,
and statistics - consistently reduces clients' information management costs
while minimizing their risk.

Employment opportunities with H5 are differentiated by our unique value
proposition. We offer an environment where you will partner with a diverse
team of sophisticated knowledge workers who share a drive to succeed, a
passion for solving our clients' most challenging problems and a strong
intellectual curiosity. Our expectations for performance are high and each
team member has a clear line of sight connecting their individual
contributions toward the achievement of department and corporate
objectives. For more information please visit the website listed above.
http://www.h5.com

I would personally classify this company as NLP, IE/IR company.
Natural Language Processing /Information Retrieval because document analysis would require a bit of NLP.

The work is interesting because it would reduce a lot of manual effort. Let me know if you come across more information about the nature of work.