Connectionists: summer internship at Siemens Healthcare (Princeton, NJ)

[Francisco Pereira]

Our team at Medical Imaging Technologies, Siemens Healthcare, in Princeton
NJ, has a summer intern position, working in a project investigating the
representation of semantic information in the brain and how it is used in
language.

Our goal is to build a computational model of the process of sentence
comprehension in a text passage, using text corpora and other linguistic
resources, and validate it using behavioral and brain imaging data.

The main role of the intern will be to help in developing and implementing
methods to extract information from text corpora, as well as models for
emulating human performance on a variety of benchmark psychological tests.
Examples of tasks you might be asked to do:

- generate distributed semantic representations for words/concepts,
sentences and passages
- extract and combine structured information from text corpora or resources
such as WordNet, FrameNet and various knowledge bases
- prepare and process text corpora (parse, convert to other formats, etc)
- implement evaluation tasks to benchmark the models developed

It is an unusual position in that you would be doing machine learning tasks
to further cognitive neuroscience goals, gaining experience in both areas.
In addition to the core research, we will also be delivering a system to
the funding agency; hence, this is a fast-paced project with multiple
opportunities for publication. This work is being carried out in
collaboration with researchers at MIT, MGH and Princeton University and
funded by the IARPA Knowledge Representation in Neural Systems program (
http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/krns ).

Requirements:
- current student in a graduate program in Computer Science/Electrical
Engineering/Machine Learning
- experience developing software in MATLAB, Python or Perl
- experience in Computational Linguistics and NLP tasks (e.g. using
frameworks such as CoreNLP or NLTK)
- availability for at least 3 months (a longer period is possible, and the
timeline is flexible)

If interested, please send your resume to francisco-pereira at siemens.com
(your email can serve as a cover letter, if there is anything you would
like to elaborate on).

thank you!
Francisco
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