LINGUIST List 22.4560 Tue Nov 15 2011 Internships: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling; Internship;Princeton Editor for this issue: Lili Xia <lxialinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. To submit an internship, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/internship Directory         1.     Nitin Madnani , Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics; Internship; Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey Message 1: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics; Internship; Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey Date: 14-Nov-2011 From: Nitin Madnani <nmadnanigmail.com> Subject: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics; Internship; Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Educational Testing Service Department: NLP & Speech Group Web Address: http://www.ets.org Type of Work: Nlp Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Computational Linguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Duration: 29-May-2012 to 17-Aug-2012 Voluntary Internship Location: Princeton, New Jersey, USA Minimum Education Level: MA Special Qualifications: Although specific requirements vary by project, all Applicants are expected to have strong programming background in the context of NLP and Speech applications and experience with machine learning. Specific project requirements are available as part of the detailed project descriptions at the application web page mentioned above. Description: The Educational Testing Service (ETS) has just released an announcement about its 2012 Summer Internship Program in Research. The areas of interest for these programs encompass computational linguistics and speech processing in addition to educational measurement and psychometrics. The NLP and Speech group at ETS is a vibrant, growing group which consists of thirty scientists and engineers. As a nonprofit organization engaged in the design and delivery of educational services, ETS has access to exceptional corpus resources which offer unique opportunities for NLP and Speech research. The specific NLP & Speech summer internship projects are listed below. To see more detailed descriptions and to apply for the internships, please register at http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships/summer/ 1) Answer Typing for c-rater 2) Automatically Evaluating the Signaling of Discourse Relations in Short Answer Responses 3) Applying Speech Enhancement and Robust Speech Processing Technology on Speech Assessment 4) Using Linguistic Features for Automated Feedback about Non-native Pronunciation and Intonation 5) Applying Very Large Language Models to Lexical and Semantic Analysis of Text 6) Verifying the Factuality of Statements 7) Using Paraphrase Generation for Improving Educational Assessments 8) Using NLP to Develop ELL Grammatical Error Detection Systems 9) Detecting Plagiarized Speech Responses 10) Locating and Scoring of Content in Brief Spoken Responses in English Language Tests Application Deadline: 01-Feb-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships/summer/ Contact Information: Joel Tetreault Email: jtetreaultets.org Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.