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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The Educational Testing Service has just released an announcement about its 2008 Internship and Fellowship Programs in Research. The areas of interest for these programs encompass computational linguistics and speech processing in addition to educational measurement and psychometrics. As a nonprofit organization engaged in the design and delivery of educational services, ETS has access to exceptional corpus resources which offer unique opportunities for linguistic research.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Particular areas of active research within the ETS natural language processing group include:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Using machine learning to identify particular classes of errors in spoken and written English (especially that of non-native speakers),</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Automated scoring of spoken and written test responses,</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Using NLP in the creation of test materials,</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Improving the robustness of NLP techniques (such as parsing and semantic analysis) to text which contains errors or infelicitous usage, and</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Improving the accuracy of speech recognition on non-native spoken English.</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please see the attached announcement for more information.</FONT>
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