Frontend Developer in an NLP Web App for Digital Humanities - Hamburg

The Hub of Computing & Data Science (HCDS), University of Hamburg, is looking for a motivated student assistant (m/f/d) with a strong interest in modern web frameworks and curiosity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to assist us with the frontend development of a web application for social scientists.

Finding, examining, and describing complex phenomena of modern societies is of great interest to social scientists. However, the flood of information available on a given topic is more than humans can digest. Fortunately, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence can assist!

The HCDS is building the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite (https://github.com/uhh-lt/dats), which aims to leverage AI models to enhance the workflow for various tasks in social and cultural science research.

Tasks:

• Implement various features as React components, e.g.:

• Core functionalities like project & user settings, authorization,

• Corpus linguistics features (e.g., KWIC, co-occurrences, frequencies)

• Interactive visualizations (e.g., network visualizations of entities)

• Annotation features (e.g., social media, audio, and video interfaces)

• Table visualizations for plain statistics (e.g., heatmaps)

• Work together with backend developers to bring features to our users

• Work together with our project partners and users to improve usability

(Once you are comfortable with the project, we discuss what features you'd like to work on.)