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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Project
title:</span></font></b> Morphological Processing, POS-Tagging, Parsing and
Generation of Unrestricted Arabic Text.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Job
Category:</span></font></b> Research Student Internship (6 months).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Location:</span></font></b>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Dublin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, School of Computing, <st1:City
w:st="on">Dublin</st1:City> 9, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Closing
date for applications:</span></font></b> 11 January 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The National Centre for
Language Technology (NCLT) invites applications from PhD research students or
MSc research students to join the NCLT/CNGL research team in the context of the
Arabic Parsing project funded by <st1:City w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:City> <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
The objectives of this project are to provide an integrated package consisting
of combined morphological analysis and POS-tagging for Arabic raw text and
input such information to parsers capable of exploiting this data. This project
involves a considerable amount of research and technology infrastructure
building. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The internship aims to
improve (treebank-based) parsing systems by means of statistical methods or
machine learning tools/techniques and investigates related tasks such as POS
tagging, morphological analysis, etc. The main challenge is parsing
unrestricted Arabic text.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Experience in Natural
Language Processing is required. Applicants should have a good grounding in Statistical
NLP, Statistical Parsing, Machine Learning, and a good knowledge of Arabic
Grammar would be ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<pre style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The internship will be for a max. of 6 months (February – July 2010), with an expected salary of €302 weekly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>To apply, email Dr. Lamia Tounsi (lamia dot tounsi at computing dot dcu dot ie) attaching a recent CV and contact details for two references.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr. Lamia Tounsi<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><em><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>National
Centre for Language </span></font></i></em>Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dublin</span></font></st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>School of computing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dublin</span></font></st1:City></st1:place>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ireland</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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