25.4605, Internships: UNDL Foundation

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Subject: 25.4605, Internships: UNDL Foundation

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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 22:02:34
From: Bertrand Michels [b.michels at undlfoundation.org]
Subject: Call for Interns in the Project FRIDA-C - UNDL Foundation

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University or Organization: UNDL Foundation
Department: Computational Linguistics
Web Address: http://www.unlweb.net/unlweb/

Type of Work: NLP

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Duration: 05-Jan-2015 to 05-Mar-2015
Compensation: Paid 600 CHF
Minimum Education Level: BA
Description:
The UNDL Foundation searches 6 interns to work in the third edition of the
project FRIDA (FRIDA-C) in the period of January to March 2015. 

Requirements:
- Candidates must be native speakers of French, Romansh, or German.
- Candidates must have been approved in CLEA750. The certificates may be
pursued online at VALERIE – the Virtual Learning Environment for UNL –
available at www.unlweb.net/valerie.
Candidates are not required to have any previous experience in natural
language processing but are expected to have some acquaintance with
Linguistics and a good command of English. The UNDL Foundation will provide
all the necessary training and academic support for any of the tasks to be
performed during the internship.

This is a part-time paid internship, which may be pursued from distance
(online) or at the UNDL Foundation office in Geneva.The duration of the
internship program is of 3 (three) months, from January 5 to March 31, 2015.
This period can be extended up to 3 (three) months, upon the evaluation of the
intern and the availability of entries in the database.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Each intern is expected to create a minimun of 2,000 dictionary entries per
month at the UNLarium, a crowd-sourcing environment available at
www.unlweb.net. Normally, a dictionary entry takes less than 2 min to be
created, i.e., the expected workload is of around 70 hours per month, or 18
hours per week. Since the UNLarium is a web-based system, the work can be
carried out from distance (online) or at the UNDL Foundation office in Geneva.
In any case, the UNDL Foundation will not pay or reimburse any expense that
interns may have concerning the internship, including infrastructure
(hardware, software, power supply, internet connection, internet provider,
etc.) and logistic support (printing material, phone calls, lodging,
transportation, etc.).

Compensation:
Interns will receive CHF600.00 (six hundred Swiss Francs) per month as a full
compensation for the internship activities. The UNDL Foundation will make no
deductions from any of the payments due to interns, who will be personally
responsible for any and all taxes and other payments due on payments received.
The UNDL Foundation will issue a CERTIFICATE OF INTERNSHIP, upon evaluation,
for those who have accomplished the tasks defined in the internship contract.
Those interested in validating the internship program as academic credits must
verify whether this possibility is supported by their academic institution. In
any case, the UNDL Foundation has a legal framework to sign agreements with
academic institutions, if necessary to be accredited as an official internship
program partner.

The Project FRIDA (Français, Rumantsch, Italiano and Deustch for Analysis)
aims at analyzing and linking, to the UNL Dictionary, a list of words from the
four official languages of Switzerland (French, Romansh, Italian and German).
The results are expected to be incorporated in UNL-driven applications, such
as Muhit, Lily, Keys and Tut, and, as any resources released in the UNLarium,
will be published under a CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license. The project FRIDA
is sponsored by Fondation Hans Wilsdorf.
The UNDL Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland,
which has received, from the United Nations, the mandate for exploiting the
Universal Networking Language (UNL). The UNL is an artificial language that
has been used for several different tasks in natural language engineering,
such as machine translation, multilingual document generation, summarization,
information retrieval and semantic reasoning. It has been, since 1996, a
unique initiative to reduce language barriers and strengthen cross-cultural
communication in the framework of the UN.

For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins
Language Resources Manager
r.martins at undlfoundation.org

Application Deadline: 01-Jan-2001

Web Address for Applications:http://www.unlweb.net/unlweb/
Contact Information:
	M Bertrand Michels 
	Email: b.michels at undlfoundation.org
	Phone: +41 22 879 8094

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