(pre-PhD) Internship position in Statistical Text Processing at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

An internship position - leading to a PhD upon demonstrated performance - in Statistical Text Processing is open at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).
Textual data is a pervasive source of information on the web, but extracting its meaning and using it in applications remains challenging. Beyond traditional natural language processing (NLP), in recent years new perspectives have been opened by word embedding techniques, which map words to a numerical vector space, and hence allow using a large range of statistical methods for text analysis.
The first task of the internship will be to synthesize the literature about new techniques for textual data processing such as word embedding, and explore related technologies (GPU, parallel implementation, handling large corpora).
The most promising approaches will then be selected and included in a prototype of a common NLP task (e.g. text classification) for evaluation.
Applications may be submitted at http://www.list.lu/en/jobs/internships/internship-...