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Evaluation and Language Distribution Agency — Intern

Title:Intern
Type:Job
Brief Description:HLT for Arabic (MT, IR)
Company:Evaluation and Language Distribution Agency
Location:France
Posted On:Feb 06, 2009
Application Deadline:
More Information:
The Evaluation and Language Distribution Agency (ELDA) is offering a 6-month to
1-year internship in Human Language Technology for the Arabic language, with a
special focus on Machine Translation (MT) and Multilingual Information Retrieval
(MLIR). The internship is organised in the framework of the European
project MEDAR (MEDiterranean ARabic language and speech technology).
She or he will work in ELDA offices in Paris and the main work will consist of
the development and adaptation of MT and MLIR open source software for Arabic.

http://www.medar.info
http://www.elda.org

Qualifications:
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The applicant should have a high-quality degree in Computer Science. Good
programming skills in C, C++, Perl and Eclipse are required.

The applicant should have a good knowledge of Linux and open source software.

Interest in Speech/Text Processing, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics,
or Cognitive Science is a plus.
Proficiency in written English is required.


Starting date:
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February 2009.


Applications
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Applications in the first instance should be made by email to

Djamel Mostefa,
Head of Production and Evaluation department, ELDA,
email: mostefa _AT_ elda.org

Please include a cover letter and  your CV
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