Internship description:

SYSTRAN has currently an opening for an internship of 4-6 months that
aims at the adaptation of its Portuguese language pairs to the new
spelling conventions for Portuguese.

The internship project would include the following tasks:

- Specification of rules to convert text according to the Portuguese
  Language Orthographic Agreement

- Adaptation of SYSTAN's lexical resources to the new spelling
  conventions

- Work on European Portuguese - Brazilian Portuguese localization of the
  Portuguese MT input and output

- Integration and testing of results

Required skills:

- Native competence of Portuguese, preferably Brazilian Portuguese, and
  fluency in English and French

- Profound knowledge of the Portuguese spelling reform and ability to
  specify rules converting text to the new spelling conventions

- Good working knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods
  in general

- Perl and scripting languages are a plus

- Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Please send your application and cover letter to Bianka Buschbeck:
buschbeck AT systran DOT fr