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SEEKING WORK | Tokyo | Remote Need help with an NLP project? I've implemented several systems from scratch, working with Japanese and English over the years, a

by polm23 7y ago

SEEKING WORK | Tokyo | Remote Need help with an NLP project? I've implemented several systems from scratch, working with Japanese and English over the years, and can help you set something up or improve your data pipeline. My one-line open source resume: I added most of the Japanese support in spaCy and have done some other work on it for the maintainers. I also have commits in Gensim, NPM, and visidata. Outside open source I worked in E-commerce for several years and have recently been supporting work on a fashion search app as a continuation of that. Resume: https://dampfkraft.com/resume.html https://dampfkraft.com/resume.html Github: https://github.com/polm https://github.com/polm Contact: howdy@cotonoha.io

syllogism 7y ago
He didn't ask us to post this, but I happened to see this so: Paul's great and we definitely expect to continue working with him. We're hugely grateful for his work on the spaCy Japanese support, and we've also worked with him on a contract basis for another project in spaCy --- he was responsible for the reduction in on-disk size introduced in v2.2. I suppose we would have a selfish interest in Paul having fewer clients, so that we'll have less competition for his time in future. But he definitely deserves to do well, so I'm happy to provide a more detailed reference if anyone's interested -- email me at matt@explosion.ai . Briefly, Paul has a rare rounding of skills across practical NLP topics. His working knowledge of both linguistics and machine learning is very fluent --- like, he'd be able to look at your system output and say something like "The relation extraction system is really struggling on light verb constructions, so we need a bigger window or maybe an attention layer". But he also has very solid engineering skills, and of course first-rate professionalism.

by polm23 7y ago

syllogism 7y ago

He didn't ask us to post this, but I happened to see this so: Paul's great and we definitely expect to continue working with him. We're hugely grateful for his work on the spaCy Japanese support, and we've also worked with him on a contract basis for another project in spaCy --- he was responsible for the reduction in on-disk size introduced in v2.2. I suppose we would have a selfish interest in Paul having fewer clients, so that we'll have less competition for his time in future. But he definitely deserves to do well, so I'm happy to provide a more detailed reference if anyone's interested -- email me at matt@explosion.ai . Briefly, Paul has a rare rounding of skills across practical NLP topics. His working knowledge of both linguistics and machine learning is very fluent --- like, he'd be able to look at your system output and say something like "The relation extraction system is really struggling on light verb constructions, so we need a bigger window or maybe an attention layer". But he also has very solid engineering skills, and of course first-rate professionalism.