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The NLP Search System of Meltwater Press

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At the end of 2012 I joined the Engineering team of Meltwater Press (mPress), to start working on my master thesis on the mPress NLP search system. The title of the thesis is “Qualitative analysis for detecting shifts in system requirements of search systems”, and I am performing it under the supervision of the DAI-Labor of the Technical University of... Read the story

In the Developer Spotlight

Developer Spotlight

The Developer Spotlight is a new category on our blog. I offers you a keyhole view at the work of our developers, designers, support engineers, testers, operations engineers, Scrum masters, and all other people at Meltwater that bring our products to life.

It is Three Inches from Women to Asia

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Recently I had an interesting problem to solve. Given a set of documents and the key phrases found in each document, the task is to display the key phrases on a map so that related phrases appear close to each other while unrelated ones are placed further apart. This should result in...

→ Work as a MEST Teaching Fellow

Want to live and work in Ghana for a year? Checkout the opportunities at MEST, Meltwater’s nonprofit organization in Accra, Ghana. I can highly recommend it! If you are interested in this topic, you may also want to read this post about my experience in Ghana on the Meltwater Careers Blog.

Developer Challenges – Lessons Learned

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In 2011 I participated in the 1st ever Springer API Challenge. Here is what I learned about developer challenges in general and how they can be beneficial for both developers and companies.

The Meltwater Engineering Blog

Get ready Internet: This is the Meltwater Engineering Blog At Meltwater Group we develop software that helps many businesses big and small around the world to do their job even better. Among other things our software monitors news (Meltwater News), finds relevant information in social media channels (Meltwater Buzz), or identifies journalists...