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May 13, 2013

SemLab Internship Opportunities: Now open for international candidates

Internship Opportunities: Now open for international candidates:

1- Econometrics & Operations Research

2- Quantitative Modeling for Algorithmic Trading & Testing

We are looking for candidates for our fast growing work in our knowledge engineering developments in algorithmic trading.

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Background of candidate is in Econometrics & Operations Research at a M.A. level university.

The candidate will be joining our Research & Development team in The Netherlands, near Amsterdam Airport. The thesis project is focusing on news analytics for multi asset class investments. The candidates should have an understanding of the implications and effects from news events on investments and risks. Macro economics and fixed income as well as equities and derivatives are subjects of interest of the internship work.

Duration: 6 month. After a successful completion of the thesis it is expected to be part of the growing development team.

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Background of the candidate is in Quantitative Modeling and/or Financial Mathematics (M.Sc./PhD-thesis)

The candidate will be joining our Research & Development team in The Netherlands, near Amsterdam Airport. The thesis project is focusing on news analytics and market data for equity asset class algorithmic trading.

Candidates should have an understanding of risk/(multi) asset valuation modeling and an emphasis on financial service applications.

We require academic experience in the field of financial data analysis and research, with strong analytic solving skills, including tools like Matlab/R and experience of working with statistics and data sets for testing your algorithm and benchmark against indices.

Communication in English is essential to both of the intern positions as well as a valid EU working permit.

If you are interested in any of these positions please send your C.V. to stalknecht@semlab.nl

April 19, 2013

Reputation Brand Monitoring and Marketing

With Semlab’ proprietary semantic web software you can analyze millions of user forums, tumblr blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ feeds, in order to measure in real-time the sentiment of your product and service opinions.

It has been a challenge imposed by processing social media because of use of incorrect language, irony, short or incomplete sentences, lack of contextual information, use of multiple languages and use of slang but Semlab succeeded to address all of these challenges with its semantic web solutions and other language processing technologies.

Semlab successfully can offer with the highest precision- and recall, of what the people think about your product and service.Don’t matter what language, slang they are using, you will capture the sentiment of the crowd immediately .User Case: Financial ServiceIn the domain of retail financial services, e.g. stock market investments, insurances, mortgages and consumer saving- & lending money, product- and service offering opinions will be processed real time.The combination of machine translation and automatic sentiment analysis has proven to be effective as semantic sentiment analysis appear to be relatively insensitive to grammatical translation errors. Especially in verbose and plentiful (highly redundant) social media messages even imperfect translations allow for reliable sentiment extraction. This was demonstrated in a precious project SemLab executed with the world most respected universities in this field where 81% translation accuracy was sufficient to drive adequate sentiment extraction from financial big data in social mediaThe resulting sentiment will be visualised in a GUI suitable for monitoring social media and to enable integration in social media outings.

The solution will be accessible through a web based service providing a clear visualization of the sentiment data and database.

The reputation brand monitoring and marketing solution is specially suitable for retail banks and insurance companies. These companies valued the content coming from the solution as consumer feed back of the findings of their financial products and how new financial product are received in the market.

This solution will address specifically the risk metric of financial service products from the eyes of consumers, the feed-back will allow the financial service companies to adjust the offerings accordingly and consequently improve reputation in the market.

A clear example of the current situation is the recent development on the Dutch mortgage market. The Dutch government has declared that the requirements for a mortgage are seriously increased. However to prevent total lock-up of the property market, the public is allowed to take a second loan. This second loan can be used to fulfil mortgage payments. Whereas this leads to opportunities for the mortgage suppliers, the general public is unable to assess the implications this can have for their overall cost. This is currently causing severe unrest in the Dutch mortgage market indicating the severely increased sensitivity of the financial services market for this – relatively transparent – measure.

Another example is the panic fuels Latvian run on Swedbank

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16142000

If you want to stay in control of the opinion: use our proprietary semantic web software.

April 15, 2013

Latest customers using our technology

SEMLAB’s technology is used across a wide range of industries to assist companies and government organizations to efficiently implement flexible solutions to the knowledge management- and data processing problems they face. Every day and night, our platforms are quietly at work assisting banks, hospitals, law enforcement, media agencies and regulators to process and maximize their intelligence and other core assets.

Some of our latest testimonials coming from organizations we work with, include:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Brussels, ICT,Competitiveness & Innovation, March 2013:

SEMLAB provides the most innovative solution in Language Technology in combination with high yield critical business processes, including financial services and risk management.

Nicolas Pratt, Machine Readable News-FOREX, April 2013:
As Machine Readable News gains further traction in FX, SEMLAB is extending its offerings.
The open platform from SEMLAB allows algorithmic traders from sell- and buy side to distinguish themselves when detecting news based information. Its natural language processing software combined with customizable event driven signals has become popular among the FX community, following the Equity Trading community.

According to Deutsche Boerse’s Market News International, Clint Rhea, COO,

In order to produce more tailored news feeds and signals, we entered into partnership with SEMLAB in order to disseminate more relevant content. Now we can tailor our events very quickly, adding value to our clients.

According to Bram Stalknecht, CEO SEMLAB, panelist at BATTLE OF THE QUANTS: Today’s algorithmic trading is not about macroeconomic market data nor sentiment signal from news providers. For the new generation algorithmic quant engineers, such as quants at WorldQuant, FirstNY, Graham Capital, Brevan Howard, Winton Capital, it’s more focused on creating proprietary decision models based on multiple sources, including news and social media.
Electronic execution is more commonplace accounting for over 60% of FX Trading while high frequency trading represents over 35% of FX trading volume, according to Aite Group statistics group.
This number will grow with SEMLAB offering complex event driven algo’s.

NASDAQ OMX, the US-based global exchange company, says Philip Adesso, Head of Analytics. There is a steadily growing interest in alpha generation within all asset classes. Mr. Adesso attributes the growth of machine readable news uptake to the evolution of FX algorithms which are now finally mirroring those in equity market. Algo’s based solely on pricing data are reaching a point where their value is exhausted. Dynamic algorithms that can act and react to market conditions like a human, need to consider many disparate prices of information. Machine readable news is arguably the most important piece, given that news precedes price, and machine readable news precedes scrolling news.

April 15, 2013

New SemLab website

We have upgraded our website. The new site provides a more complete view of our offering and is easier to maintain. This should result in more up to date content, and hopefully more pageviews.

April 22, 2011

Deutsche Börse announces ‘ AlphaFlash Corporate News Germany’

Deutsche Börse has issued a press release stating that their algo news feed AlphaFlash will now deliver unscheduled corporate financial data in machine-readable format. This is the first step in an expanding service. Additional news types and countries will be added later.

AlphaFlash is supported by SemLab’s semantic analysis technology.

To read the press release, follow this link: Deutsche Börse Media Announcements

November 29, 2010

SemLab website redesigned

The SemLab website has been redesigned. The new website is more easy to navigate, with information that is concise and with updated graphics. The two flagship products, ViewerPro and Meditra now have their own dedicated sections, and there are separate pages dedicated to our research projects and careers.

Have a look at SemLab’s new website

October 20, 2010

EuroScope project receives Service Innovation & ICT funding

Semlab, together with Partners Infa and DowJones, received funding from the Netherlands’ newest innovation programme Sii (Service Innovation & ICT) for their Innovative project ‘EuroScope’.

The Sii programme aims at making the Netherlands the European center for smart information and media services as well as for financial logistics.

With the EuroScope project, Semlab and partners will research the possibility of using live news information and automatic semantic anaylsis to improve the state of the art in personalised financial planning software.

August 25, 2010

ViewerPro connects to Reuters Market Data System

ViewerPro, Semlab’s news flow algorithms and analytic suite, is now connected to Thomson Reuters Market Data Systems (RMDS). In order to interact and develop emerging news analysis tools, users can utilize a fully integrated RMDS news flow algo, based on SemLab’s superior semantic web technology.

For more information: Reuters RMDS website

August 24, 2010

Vacature: Java Developer

SemLab is een groeiend kennisintensief en innovatief softwarebedrijf met hoogopgeleide medewerkers.
SemLab heeft een internationale klantenkring, die bestaat uit de grootste financiële services organisaties in Europa. Ook klanten in Nederland worden bediend met beslissingsondersteunende applicaties waarbij het er om draait de beschikbare informatie juist te interpreteren en snel de juiste actie te ondernemen.
Of het nu gaat om patiëntenzorg of de handel in derivaten, SemLab’s nieuwste software applicaties ondersteunen de professional met de juiste informatie om snel tot het optimale resultaat te komen.

SemLab maakt nu een grote groei door en zoekt per direct een:

JAVA DEVELOPER

SemLab zoekt een enthousiaste software developer met ruime kennis van Java.

Heb je een HBO of academische opleiding in software ontwikkeling? Heb je ruime ervaring met ontwikkelen in Java en lijkt het je interessant om te werken aan taaltechnologiën of beslissingsondersteuning? Neem dan contact met ons op voor een uitdagende baan.

We bieden een interessante functie met doorgroeimogelijkheden, een marktconform salaris en leuke collega’s.

Reageren?

Mail naar info@semlab.nl of bel naar 0172 494 777 en vraag naar Dr. Mark Vreijling.

Acquisitie op deze functie wordt niet op prijs gesteld.

August 24, 2010

Vacature: Onderzoeker/Developer

SemLab maakt nu een grote groei door en zoekt per direct een:

ONDERZOEKER/DEVELOPER Kennistechnologie

SemLab zoekt een enthousiaste, zelfstandige onderzoeker / software developer kennistechnologie.

Heb je een academische opleiding afgerond (MA), vind je het leuk om zelfstandig aan projecten te werken en daarvoor de benodigde kennis te vergaren? Heb je ruime ervaring met ontwikkelen in Java en affiniteit met taaltechnologiën of beslissingsondersteuning? Neem dan contact met ons op voor een uitdagende baan.

Aangezien SemLab in beginsel een softwarebedrijf is, is het de bedoeling dat de ontwikkelde inzichten worden omgezet naar commerciële applicaties. Daarom is voor deze functie een uitmuntende kennis van (web) applicatie ontwikkeling in Java een absoluut vereiste.

Affiniteit met financiële services of strekt tot aanbeveling