LINGUIST List 12.741

Fri Mar 16 2001

Jobs: NLP, Ellipsis: Intern at Microsoft, WA, USA

Editor for this issue: Michael Appleby <michaellinguistlist.org>

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1. Angel Baum, NLP, Ellipsis: Intern at Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA

Rank of Job: Intern
Areas Required: Natural Language Processing
Other Desired Areas: Research
University or Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Department: Microsoft Research
State or Province: Redmond, WA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: 30 March 2001
Contact: Angel Baum abaummicrosoft.com

Address for Applications:
One Microsoft Way
Redmond
WA 98052
USA

The Natural Language Processing group at Microsoft Research, Redmond,
USA is looking for a summer intern to do linguistic research on
ellipsis. The candidate would design and implement a module that
identifies elliptical constructions, locates target expressions for
the ellipses and copies appropriate elements to yield a more fully
articulated logical form representation.
 
Candidates should have a solid grounding in syntax and logical form
representations. The NLP group works on Chinese, English, French,
German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Familiarity with several of
these languages, or at least with the typological issues pertinent to
ellipsis, is important for the successful completion of this work.
 
Programming experience is a definite plus.