9 February: fyi -- Microsoft internships
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Microsoft European Product Development Centre
INFORMATION WORKER DIVISION
A Requirement exists for a current degree or post-grad student to secure an internship within Microsoft Ireland in Dublin.
Role: Computational Linguist
Start: July 2009
Duration: 6-12 Months
Ref: TEC05
Summary
Would you like the opportunity to work with Microsoft language technology development? Are you interested in computational lexicography and morphology or contextual spelling correction, machine translation, or controlled language? If so we’d like you to join our Ireland teams working on Microsoft proofing tools, machine translation solutions, and more.
The Language Technology Team is a member of Information Worker division of Microsoft responsible for providing proofing tools to several Microsoft applications including the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. They source, license, test and release over 70 different languages, everything from established European languages such as French and Spanish to minority languages such as Maori and Zulu!
This team is looking for interns that will help develop and test linguistic quality metrics and evaluation tools for spellers, grammars, thesauri and autocorrect lists and potentially also on controlled language and translation memory solutions and machine translation systems. The successful candidate will also help test the quality of new spellers for the Local Language Program which promotes minority languages through technology. If you have a passion for language and technology, this is an ideal opportunity to gain experience in the world of computational linguistics.
We also have positions available focused on language technology integration in the translation process. Here we look at integrating recycling and translation memory with machine translation and post-editing.
If you have a passion for language and technology, this is an ideal opportunity to gain experience in the world of computational linguistics.
Note
This position is open for European undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students that have the ability to take a break in their studies. The standard duration is 12 months but shorter time periods can also be considered.
You need to be returning to full-time study after the completion of the internship, the position is not open to applicants who have already completed their degree, or will do so before the start of the internship.
Responsibilities
Understand internal linguistic metrics methodologies for all Proofing Tools (Speller, Thesaurus, Hyphenator, Grammar, Autocorrect lists, Wordbreakers and Stemmers).
Define linguistic quality bars; developing linguistic quality strategy, and/or metrics for all languages of Proofing Tools that can easily be used to verify the linguistic quality of the Proofing Tools.
Work on development of linguistic test tools
Ancillary functional testing of proofing tools may be required
Work alongside linguistic vendors and team in U.S. to determine the quality of the Proofing Tools
Help to ship Proofing Tools in over 70 languages for next version of Office
Work on Machine translation, translation memory and controlled language integration, validation and testing.
Conduct research and pilots into novel uses of language technology in translation.
Develop prototype tools and solutions.
Requirements
Current European student of linguistics or computer science with an interest in natural language processing or computational linguistics. You must be returning to complete your studies at the end of your internship.
Good communication skills are a must, both written and verbal
Good programming skills. Some knowledge of any of the following languages, either C#, Java, Visual Basic.Net or C++ would be advantageous
Fluency of a foreign language would be advantageous but not essential
Competencies
Passion for Technology
Drive for results
Interpersonal Awareness
Passion for problem solving
Ability to deal with ambiguity
Benefits
See: http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/careers/graduate/benefits.mspx
If you are interested in learning more about this job, please check out the following web link. It is a blog maintained by our team in the US who lead the charge in cutting edge technology, tools development and research - http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguage/default.aspx
Contact colinla@microsoft.com or dags@microsoft.com with an attached CV (resume) if are interested in applying for this internship, to learn more about this exciting job opportunity and find out in more detail what the job entails and the team that you would be working in.
To find out more pick up our brochure from your careers service or visit www.microsoft.ie/careers
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