http://linguistlist.org Latest Internships Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:04 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1354.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1354.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Erasmus + Traineeship for Advanced learning in Philosophy of Science with focus on Applied Evolutionary Epistemology. Last call for an Erasmus + Traineeship @ the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab (http://appeel.fc.ul.pt) for Advanced learning in Philosophy of Science with focus on Applied Evolutionary Epistemology. Deadline is May 1st. The student will work with Nathalie Gontier and other AppEEL members on aspects of philosophy of the evolutionary sciences in general and applied evolut http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-261.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-261.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The Machine Translation (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) is looking for proactive and dynamic young students, with good organizational, relational skills and an inclination for team-work, strongly motivated to work on innovative and interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of language and translation technology (and which are frequently addressed to third party companies). Title: Gender Bias and Automatic Translation Language technology has provided us with benefic http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3681.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3681.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z We are looking for English native speakers to help us with a paraphrasing project. In this project we would like to systematically paraphrase texts. For every sentence in the text, two syntactic variants are needed. There are five texts with 500 sentences each. The texts are from the areas: 1. HR 2. Finance and reporting 3. Mobility and transport, 4. Administration and Law 5. Process engineering. The time frame for the whole project is December 2020. For more information on payment and condition http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3400.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3400.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa offers a Summer Internship Program to qualified graduate students who are interested in gaining experience working with innovative language technologies and language learning professionals. The purpose of the Summer Internship Program is to support graduate student participation in an intensive language technology project. Internship projects are highly focused and have elevated priority within the Tech Cent http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1009.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1009.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Nuance ist Pionier und Marktführer im Bereich der dialogorientierten Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) für alle Arbeits- und Lebensbereiche. Wir liefern Lösungen, die verstehen, analysieren und das Ziel verfolgen, die menschliche Intelligenz zu bereichern und die Produktivität und Sicherheit zu erhöhen. Wir besitzen jahrzehntelange Erfahrung in der Entwicklung und Anwendung von KI. Nuance Communications is a software solutions company specialising in AI powered technologies, premier voice and natu http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-764.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-764.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center (Tech Center) offers a Summer Internship Program to qualified graduate students who are interested in gaining experience working with innovative language technologies and language learning professionals. The purpose of the Summer Internship Program is to support graduate student participation in an intensive language technology project. Internship projects are highly focused and have elevated priority within the Tech Center portfolio. Interns ar http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-763.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-763.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Accepting applications for Spring 2020 | Location: Bloomington, IN (our main office) Seeking to fill multiple academic volunteer internship positions for processing large amounts of fieldwork data collected from various indigenous language projects in the US, Canada and Australia. These data collections will lead to extensive dictionaries, language learning textbooks, apps, and other media projects. Work will include audio cutting, entry, analysis, and organization of collected data. Intern http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-762.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-762.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Seeking to fill multiple part-time, temporary internship positions supporting the planning and implementation of the 2020 Lakota and Crow Summer Language Institutes. Program Assistants will plan, organize, set up, and coordinate Institutes taking place between May and August 2020. Applicants should be comfortable speaking on the phone and be oriented toward customer service. They should have a good grasp of Outlook and Microsoft Office Suite and be willing to master new programs including http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4610.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4610.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Position Overview: ELL summer associates will produce materials for use on large-scale, high-stakes standardized tests of English language proficiency. Each summer associate will work on one of the following: TOEFL iBT® Test: The TOEFL iBT test is taken by nonnative speakers of English who are planning to apply to a college or university in an English-speaking country. TOEIC® Tests: The TOEIC tests are taken principally by people who need to communicate with both native and nonnat http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4293.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4293.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Mission: The Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage (CNRS and Université de Poitiers) offers a one-year position of research assistant for the Pro-TEXT: Processes of textualization: linguistic, psycholinguistic, and machine learning modelling project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France). The work that will be made for the Pro-TEXT project aims to analyse the relations between the temporal indices of cognitive processes (such as pauses) and the nature of bu http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3674.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3674.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Under the supervision of Thierry Olive (Research Director at CNRS), the research assistant will: - Become familiar with the scientific literature on the study of written production, and in particular the real-time analysis of writing. - Participate in data collection - Process writing logs collected via keylogging (inputlog, scriptlog ...) - Develop analyses scripts - Perform statistical analyses Duration: 12 months, from early November. Remuneration: approximately 3000 euros gross http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3621.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3621.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Job Description for LearningBranch NLP Specialist Start Date: Immediate Duration: Part time / contract position for 6 months Job Title: NLP Specialist About the job: LearningBranch has developed a soft-skill assessment tool that predicts an individual’s ability to communicate effectively in real-world customer service interactions. Corporations and educational institutions are using our cloud-based language and communication skills tools to deliver listening/speaking assessments and tr http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3388.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3388.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The main tasks will be the assistance in the book production process (typesetting of linguistic examples, tables, trees, diagrams, maps; cover creation; facilitation of community proofreading; metadata creation; catalogue housekeeping). Additional tasks involve proofreading of texts, testing of user interfaces and creation of manuals and guidelines. The precise nature of the tasks will be decided together with the successful applicants. http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3226.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3226.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Work will include audio cutting, data entry, analysis, and organization of collected data. You will work closely with our linguistic, textbook, and app development teams to steer all projects towards being culturally relevant and valuable tools for the learner communities. Experience using Praat, Audacity, Google Sheets, Excel, SIL Fieldworks and/or Tshwane-Lex are a plus. http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2500.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2500.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z We are offering several three- to twelve-month fellowships to external PhD candidates who would like to do their research within one dedicated project of our Collaborative Research Centre, SFB 1287. The fellowship should take place between November 2019 and December 2020. Please see the available projects here: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/sfb1287/projects.html All the relevant information regarding the fellowship can be found here: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/sfb1287/vacancies.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2137.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2137.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z SYSTRAN Software, Inc. is looking for research engineer interns for the summer of 2019. We are looking for Ph.D. students with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) background. Interns are expected to work alongside SYSTRAN's research engineers and apply their NLP and ML skills to contribute to SYSTRAN's applied research projects that will have immediate impact to our industry leading technology and products. http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1992.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1992.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The intern will focus on improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in a variety of German-language products, including smart speakers, mobile apps and televisions. Much of this work will consist of analyzing how our lexica contribute to product performance, and then both proposing and implementing changes to make them more effective. The successful applicant will have strong Python coding and analytical skills, as well as experience with natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Yo http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1338.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1338.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z Ethnic Technologies is offering an opportunity to apply linguistic principles to data analysis in a business setting. As an intern, your tasks will consist of: - Classifying first and last names by ethnicity - Identifying morphological patterns within lists of names - Defining rules from visible patterns - Improving the logic that incorporates name intelligence into a predictive software product - Working with large data sets and developing data analysis skills - Testing theoretical idea http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-825.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-825.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The Summer Institute intern will work closely with Language Conservancy staff, instructors, and local partners to plan and implement several Summer Institutes. Program Assistants will work with Language Conservancy and local staff to coordinate one or more Summer Language Institutes taking place between May and August 2019. Applicants should be excellent communicators by phone and email as well as face to face. They should have a good grasp of Outlook and Microsoft Office Suite, and be willing t http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-596.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-596.html 2021-04-16T18:36:31Z The Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies invites undergraduate students and graduating seniors to apply for our 2019 summer internship program under the direction of Dr. Susan Carey and Dr. Jesse Snedeker. Our research asks how infants can go from their initial conceptual and linguistic state to the vast, abstract, and uniquely human adult state. Specific projects focus on causality, kind representations, executive function and conceptual change, the development and acquisition of language, an