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Research opportunity in NLP+SE

Hi Everyone,

We are seeking an undergraduate researcher to collaborate on an exciting project in natural language processing and software engineering.

The goal of the project is to take as input an English description of a file system operation, such as

“find the top 10 largest files in the system root directory”

and to produce as output a bash command, such as

find / -type f | xargs -I {} du -a {} | sort -n -r | head -n 10

We are looking for a strongly motivated undergraduate student to participate in this project. You should be very comfortable with the unix shell.  Familiarity with machine learning is a plus.

Potential tasks include:
* develop and maintain a bash parser
* develop novel data collection methods, possibly including crowdsourcing
* develop data processing techniques

To apply for the position, please email me:
 * your resume
* a current grade report or transcript
 * anything else you consider relevant, such as link to your personal webpage or project page (optional)
Looking forward to your participation!

Best Regards,
Victoria Lin, Chenglong Wang, Michael Ernst, Luke Zettlemoyer
Victoria Lin <xilin@cs.washington.edu>
October 5, 2016