Internships

CNGL Undergraduate Internships 2010

CNGL is offering a number of paid 8-week undergraduate internships during Summer 2010 designed for undergraduate students to participate and contribute to exciting CNGL research projects. The internships are based in DCU, TCD and UL as well as two of our industry partners Microsoft and Alchemy.

Deadline for applications is Friday 30th April 2010. Successful internship project proposals will start at the beginning of June 2010.

Objective

The primary aim of the CNGL undergraduate internship is to offer exceptional undergraduate students the opportunity to participate and contribute to exciting research projects at CNGL which allows the student to use leading research facilities and to inspire these students to take the first step on a path to a research career.

CNGL Internships Proposals 2010

The following is a full list of CNGL Internship proposals from our researchers. A number of internship projects will run subject to terms and conditions (below).

• Mobile Next Generation Localisation Applications Based at TCD.
  Supervisor: Dr. David Lewis (TCD)
  Recommended reading:
  Research Paper on Open Service Framework for Next Generation Localisation
• Instrumentation of a Personalised Web Platform Based at TCD.
  Supervisor: Dr. Séamus Lawless (TCD) and Dr. Ian O'Keefe (TCD)
• The Personalised Presentation of Movies Based in TCD.
  Supervisor: Dr. Séamus Lawless (TCD) with the support of Dr. Alexander O'Connor, Dr. Ian O'Keefe and Prof. Vincent Wade (TCD)
• Crowd sourcing and multilingual web access - who does it? Based at Microsoft and DCU.
  Supervisor: Dag Schmidtke (Microsoft) and CNGL researchers in DCU
• Development of a tool to extract and merge data from a localisation data container Based at UL.
  Supervisor: Lucía Morado Vázquez (University of Limerick) with the support of Mr. Reinhard Schäler.
• Implementing a language modelling approach to information retrieval for structured document search Based at DCU.
  Supervisor: Dr. Gareth Jones (DCU)
• Development of a small hand-annotated corpus Based at TCD.
  Supervisor: Hector Franco (TCD), Gerard Lynch (TCD) and Liliana Mamani (TCD) with the support of Dr. Carl Vogel (TCD)
• Domain Adaptation in Semantic Role Labelling Based at TCD.
  Supervisor: Hector Franco (TCD) with the support of Dr. Carl Vogel (TCD)
• Investigating the usability and user experience of language technology applications Based at TCD.
  Supervisor: Dr. Nikiforos Karamanis (TCD)
• Machine Translation Markup and Scoring Based at Alchemy Software.
  Supervisor: Tony O'Dowd (Alchemy Software) and Enda McDonnell (Alchemy Software)
• Natural Language Processing - Dates and Numerical Expressions in Arabic Based at DCU.
  Supervisor: Dr. Lamia Tounsi (DCU) and Dr. Mohammed Attia (DCU)
• Developing an XLIFF-based author memory system Based at University of Limerick.
  Supervisor: Lorcan Ryan (UL)

Eligibility

CNGL internships are only open to undergraduate students who have a valid work permit for Ireland. In order to be eligible for the CNGL Undergraduate Internship Programme, students should fit the following criteria:

• Students should be registered for a University Bachelor’s degree in a subject related to CNGL research themes.
• Students should be 2nd, 3rd or final year students.

How to apply

To apply for any of the above CNGL undergraduate internship proposals, please fill out the APPLICATION FORM and email to Cara Greene cgreene (AT) computing.dcu.ie by Friday 30th April 2010. For informal queries, you can contact the supervisor for each proposal (contact details on each proposal).

Funding

• Each student will receive a taxable income of approx. €340 weekly

Terms and Conditions

• The projects named here are proposals only and not guaranteed funding. Proposals will be selected to become CNGL Internship Projects based on a competitive process taking the strength of student applications into account.
• Each funded project in the CNGL undergraduate Internship programme will run for 8 weeks from June 2010.
• Interns will take part in research meetings and have access to research tutorials and seminars at CNGL host universities.
• CNGL does not cover accommodation or travel expenses.
• Deadline for applications is 30th April 2010.

Download

• Application form