LINGUIST List 22.94 Thu Jan 06 2011 Internships: Pashto & Comp Ling, Morphology: Research Assistant, CA, USA Editor for this issue: Erica Wicks <ericalinguistlist.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.     Ron Artstein , Pashto & Computational Linguistics, Morphology: Research Assistant, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, CA, USA Message 1: Pashto & Computational Linguistics, Morphology: Research Assistant, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, CA, USA Date: 05-Jan-2011 From: Ron Artstein <artsteinict.usc.edu> Subject: Pashto & Computational Linguistics, Morphology: Research Assistant, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, CA, USA E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: USC Institute For Creative Technologies Web Address: http://ict.usc.edu/internships Type of Work: Language Materials Development Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Morphology Duration: 17-May-2011 to 02-Sep-2011 Compensation: Paid: Competitive Internship Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Minimum Education Level: No Minimum Special Qualifications: Required: Familiarity with the Arabic-Persian script and its specific Unicode encoding issues. Required: Experience in linguistic field work or corpus work. Required: A strong, well-developed ability to write scripts or computer programs that manipulate textual data, sufficient to write a rule-based morphological analyzer. Desired: Familiarity with Pashto or a related language. Desired: Experience in computational morphology. Description: The project will develop a morphological analyzer for Pashto, an Iranian language with rich morphology and limited computational resources. The project will make use of available grammars and lexicons, but given the fragmentary nature of existing resources we expect that there will be a significant effort of research on the morphology of Pashto itself. The intern will collect a corpus of Pashto text from available electronic news sites and other resources as appropriate, and expand the corpus throughout the duration of the project. The intern will develop a rule-based morphological analyzer that can correctly handle the expanding corpus, consulting available grammars. A lexicon will be developed concurrently with the analyzer. Application Deadline: 18-Feb-2011 Web Address for Applications: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/internship/ Contact Information: Ron Artstein Email: artsteinict.usc.edu Phone: +1 310 448 0313 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Jan-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.