Student assistant

10%-20%, Zurich, temporary

The Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich is looking for a student research assistant to work on our data project "DemocaSci" as well as a SNF project.

Project background

We are looking for a student research assistant to work on our data project “DemocraSci – a research platform for data-driven democracy studies in Switzerland and our SNF-project Analyzing Co-Sponosrship Networks from 127 Years of the Swiss Federal Assembly. The projects use 127 years of Swiss parliamentary data to create a comprehensive and searchable database

Job description

The hired student will assist the projects with different coding tasks.

Tasks include: creating training data sets for topic modelin; supporting named entity recognition (NER) tasks, including Prodigy coding and validation tasks; improving OCR outputs; improving lemmatization of Swiss-specific words; writing scripts for automated collection of data on members of parliament (committee engagements, interest group ties, seating arrangements etc.)

Your profile

The successful candidate should be a student at ETH Zurich or University Zurich (computer science, engineering, economics and social sciences, mathematics or natural sciences). He or she needs to have good coding skills in Phyton, NLP skills as well as LaTex skills. Good command of German is a must.

ETH Zurich

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