20.1493, Internships: Internship in Natural Language Processing

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Subject: 20.1493, Internships: Internship in Natural Language Processing

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Date: 20-Apr-2009
From: Michael Emonts < memonts at alelo.com >
Subject: Internship in Natural Language Processing
 

	
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:13:54
From: Michael Emonts [memonts at alelo.com]
Subject: Internship in Natural Language Processing

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University or Organization: Alelo Tlt, Llc
Web Address: <a href="http://alelo.com">http://alelo.com</a>

Type of Work: NLP

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Duration: 01-May-2009 to 01-Jan-2001
Compensation: Paid $25/hr
Internship Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Minimum Education Level: BA
Special Qualifications: Education and experience desired: 
- 1-2 years of experience in Language Technologies research at the graduate level
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills required: 
- Strong organizational and communication skills, including technical writing
- Technical proficiency in at least one scripting language and one programming language
- Basic to thorough understanding of one or more of the following: natural language parsing, statistical language modeling, dialog modeling, machine translation, information retrieval, information extraction

Other skills desired: 
- Demonstrated ability to produce working software in a 
- Self-starting; ability to plan, document, and execute a program of research, at least on a small scale <br />

Description:
Alelo Inc. produces immersive simulations of real-life social communication based on interactive 3D video games involving spoken dialogs and cultural protocols with socially intelligent virtual humans. (Alelo means "language" in Hawaiian.) Our initial applications teach how to communicate in foreign languages and cultures, and are rapidly growing in several training, entertainment, advertising and healthcare markets. Please visit our website.

You will use NLP tools to measure the richness of dialogs between language learners and our software.  These measurements will be applied in a variety of contexts, including assessment of learner proficiency, profiling the content of a course of instruction, and improving the efficiency of course-authoring tools.
We are looking for someone who enjoys getting things done and wants to make a difference.

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Contact Information:
	Michael Emonts
	Phone: 310-566-7272
	Fax: 310-566-7069



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