[Corpora-List] summer internship

[cynthia.thompson at us.pwc.com]

Summer Internships at the Center for Advanced Research


The Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking 
several interns for the summer of 2007. This ad describes the interns 
needed for Project Magic Lens, which will hire one or more interns 
depending on the number of qualified applicants. These interns will 
perform important tasks for the project, which is developing new 
techniques for assisting with the review of legal documents that originate 
in paper form.

Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches 
for challenging problems in text mining, computational linguistics, 
statistical natural language processing, and machine learning. We are 
looking for expertise in several areas including pattern recognition, 
image processing, HCI including "smart paper", text classification, and 
semantic parsing. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer 
science, computational linguistics, electrical engineering, or similar 
graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with complex 
language or image processing problems. Programming will be required and 
familiarity with C# or .NET is preferred.

Each intern will select a task for the summer, the details of which will 
be based on the match of project needs to student backgrounds, but will be 
hands-on, involving substantial design, analysis, and interaction with 
real legal documents. Summer interns, like all members of the staff at the 
Center, are expected to be curious, eager to learn, passionate to 
contribute their ideas, accepting of criticism and suggestions, and 
willing to constructively confront difficult problems and situations.  The 
candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication 
skills.

This position is in San Jose, CA.  Compensation is commensurate with 
experience.  PricewaterhouseCoopers is an equal opportunity employer.

To schedule an interview, please send an e-mail with your resume to 
navneet.n.bal at us.pwc.com ; please use the subject line "Summer intern for 
Magic Lens".

About PricewaterhouseCoopers

The mission of PricewaterhouseCoopers? Center for Advanced Research, 
located in San Jose, California, is to create competitive advantage and 
industry leadership for the firm by applying advanced technology and 
thinking to important practice problems. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (
www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory 
services for public and private clients primarily in four areas: corporate 
accountability; risk management; structuring and mergers and acquisitions; 
and performance and process improvement. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a truly 
global organization with member firm offices in 769 cities in 144 
countries. With a combined headcount of more than 122,000, PwC firms rank 
amongst the world's leading employers of highly skilled, professional 
people. 

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