Internship in Research group

lling9996  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Internship in Research group
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
10 credits
240.0 h
Q1 or Q2
Teacher(s)
Fairon Cédrick (coordinator);
Language
French
Main themes
For this internship, the student will choose to work one NLP-related domain (Speech Processing, Information Retrieval or Extraction, Text Mining, Text Generation or Summarization, etc.). Before the start date he/she will increase his/her knowledge of this specific domain by doing some personal research and by reading reference papers and books.
 
At the end of the internship, the student will write a paper (15 pages) presenting his work and when applicable, an evaluation of his/her results.
We recommend to the students to choose the subject of their MA dissertation expanding on the subject of the internship. In that event, the dissertation will be dedicated to a theoretical study of the domain and the work done during the internship will be presented as the experimental part.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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Over the course of a 4 weeks internship (min. 4 weeks or 150 hours and max. 6 weeks or 210 hours) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to be done in a company or a research center, the student will acquire or practice the following skills:
  • he/she will be in charge or will directly contribute to the development of a NLP application or he/she will carry a complex study relying on an advanced use of NLP tools (i.e. requiring tool customization or combination of different tools);
  • he/she will put into practice the knowledge and skills learned during the Master's program, will discover the requirements of NLP applications development and will get acquainted with NLP professionals in the framework of a real work experience.
The student will be supported by the local team and will work under the direct supervision of a placement supervisor.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
LING


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Linguistics