[Corpora-List] Research Student Internship (6 months), Dublin City University

[Lamia Tounsi]

Project title: Morphological Processing, POS-Tagging, Parsing and Generation of Unrestricted Arabic Text.

Job Category: Research Student Internship (6 months).

Location: Dublin City University, School of Computing, Dublin 9, Ireland.

Closing date for applications: 11 January 2010.

 

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 Enterprise Ireland. 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. 

 

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.

 

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. 

 

The internship will be for a max. of 6 months (February – July 2010), with an expected salary of €302 weekly.
 
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.
 

 

Dr. Lamia Tounsi

National Centre for Language Technology

Dublin City University

School of computing

Dublin 9

Ireland

 

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