Posted:Jul 19
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Food Production
Description:
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Job Description
About the Internship
- The Alliance is currently working on improving the accuracy of large language models to extract relevant information from scientific text. However, the agricultural research domain has a lower amount of annotated textual data, making it a low-resource domain. To ensure the AI models are as accurate as possible and to promote the reproducibility of our research, the Alliance needs to annotate a corpus of textual data for training and testing the models. We are seeking BSc or MSc level Economics students to assist in annotating textual data for a Named Entity Recognition (NER) project focused on economics. The data sources include scientific publications, reports, and news media.
Key Responsibilities
- Undergo training on Prodigy, a Python-based annotation tool
- Review and annotate assigned textual data in the agricultural research domain, identifying relevant named entities
- Apply consistent annotation guidelines across all data sources
- Participate in regular quality assurance checks to uphold high standards for data quality and annotation consistency.
- Contribute to research and analysis to identify trends and patterns in the annotated data.
- Report any issues or ambiguities encountered during the annotation process
- Meet weekly annotation targets as set by the project coordinator
- Contribute to the refinement of annotation guidelines based on practical experience
Requirements
- Current enrollment in or recent graduation from a BSc or MSc program in Economics, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Sciences, Environmental Science, or related fields
- Strong analytical and research skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Understanding of economic and agricultural concepts and terminology.
- Fluency in English and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Basic computer literacy and ability to learn new software tools
- Exposure to academic research methodologies, knowledge of python or other statistical software will be an added advantage
Applications closing date: 2nd August 2024
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
Contact Information
Name: Kenyan Jobs