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---+ Example Internships:  Microsoft

Here are some example recent internships, and a couple of future possibilities.  Not all would necessarily be relevant to our student population.  This list, however, will give you a feel for the types of internships Microsoft offers.  (Thanks to Mike Calcagno for providing this information.)

---++ Recent

   * MT system: Student designed end-to-end statistical MT system for English to German, and included Greek in the mix to test the technology.
  
   * How may I help you system:  Student developed an authoring tool for developing "How may I help you?" systems.
  
   * MT toolkit:  Student started off by comparing different semi-supervised classifier systems.  Adapted the best of each into a toolkit for cross-lingual named entity recognition, replicating results from this community.

---++ Possibles

   * Query log analysis, query log clustering:  design system to deal with the large volume of queries, and cluster these by topic, language, etc.
   
   * Help doc. classification:  learn language models from help documents and classify them by language (assumption:  route to correct team)
   
---++ Hints/advice

   * Topic/tasks:  It's up to the manager for any particular group to decide what projects a student might work on.  However, students are generally asked what they would like to do, and management trys to tailor tasks to that student.
   
   * IP issues:  Generally try to avoid them.  More sensitive issues in MSN Search than the NLP group.
   
   * Budget:  Internships are very limited, and dependent on budgetary issues.  Last year, 9 slots were available (in NLP).
   
   * Employment:  About 50 percent of summer interns find their way into full-time Microsoft employment.

-- Main.WilliamLewis - 07 Nov 2005
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