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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; ">NLP and AI Research Intern – Nuance Communications – Sunnyvale Research Lab </span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Description
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Nuance is a world-wide leader in speech and language technologies. The newly formed Nuance Silicon Valley Natural Language Research Laboratory is conducting research in next-generation intelligent
conversational agents. Our research internship program is seeking outstanding doctoral students who would be interested in contributing to our work in Natural Language Processing, AI, and prototype systems. We invite applicants whose own research complements
our ongoing work in these areas: </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Natural Language Processing:
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Discourse and dialog processing; anaphora resolution; multimodal generation; parsing; named entity recognition; morphology; multilingual NLP; semantic interpretation; content extraction
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">AI and Reasoning:
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Knowledge representation and reasoning in support of NLU, particularly in relation to dynamic models of computational semantics; efficient reasoning in description logics, theorem provers and
hybrid reasoning systems; the interaction between reasoning systems and very large scale conventional databases; collaboration-based models of dialog processing; pragmatic processing and explanation; and probabilistic reasoning for intent recognition and ambiguity
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Prototype Systems:
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Methods for integrating NLP and AI components in an existing prototype system to provide natural interaction in a specific domain; domain adaptation of named entity recognizers; dialog management
and evaluation; ontology development.</span></span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 11pt; ">The internship will provide unique opportunities for students to collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers on substantial problems of current interest.</span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Education / Experience
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Currently in a PhD Computer Science (or equivalent) Program.
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'">Interested candidates should submit a CV, a research statement, and the names of at least two references to
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)">Jennifer.Garvale@nuance.com</span></p>
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