27.1268, Internships: Computational Ling, Lang Doc, Lexicography: Summer Intern with PanLex: The Long Now Foundation/USA

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Subject: 27.1268, Internships: Computational Ling, Lang Doc, Lexicography: Summer Intern with PanLex: The Long Now Foundation/USA

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:36:41
From: Jonathan Pool [pool at panlex.org]
Subject: Summer Internship with PanLex

 

University or Organization: The Long Now Foundation
Department: PanLex
Web Address: http://longnow.org

Type of Work: Programming

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography

Duration: 20-Jun-2016 to 12-Aug-2016
Voluntary
Internship Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Minimum Education Level: BA
Special Qualifications: - Familiarity with multiple languages and non-Latin scripts
- Lexicographic and bibliographic knowledge
- Ability to program in an interpreted language and apply regexes
- Knowledge of app development and UI design and testing 


Description:
Various low- and high-tech activities, including:

- Acquisition of lexicographic data on the least-documented languages
- Interpretation of those data to populate a panlingual lexical database
- Automation of parts of that interpretive process with text parsing
- Development of human interfaces to the database
- Quantitative analysis of the data


Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Web Address for Applications:http://dev.panlex.org/intern/
Contact Information:
	Dr. Jonathan Pool 
	Email: info at panlex.org


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