Job: Internship at ELDA, Paris, France

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:22:58 +0100
From: info at elda.org
Message-ID: <498C47C2.5080900 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.medar.info
X-url: http://www.elda.org


[Apologies for multiple postings]

The Evaluation and Language Distribution Agency (ELDA) is offering a
6-month to 1-year internship in Human Language Technology for the
Arabic language, with a special focus on Machine Translation (MT) and
Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR). The internship is organised
in the framework of the European project MEDAR (MEDiterranean ARabic
language and speech technology).
She or he will work in ELDA offices in Paris and the main work will
consist of the development and adaptation of MT and MLIR open source
software for Arabic.

http://www.medar.info
http://www.elda.org

Qualifications:
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The applicant should have a high-quality degree in Computer
Science. Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl and Eclipse are
required.
The applicant should have a good knowledge of Linux and open source
software.
Interest in Speech/Text Processing, Machine Learning, Computational
Linguistics, or Cognitive Science is a plus.
Proficiency in written English is required.


Starting date:
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February 2009.


Applications
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Applications in the first instance should be made by email to 

Djamel Mostefa, 
Head of Production and Evaluation department, ELDA,  
email: mostefa _AT_ elda.org

Please include a cover letter and  your CV

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