Internship: Dept. of Health and Aged Care - Using natural language processing to extract information from unstructured health text data

30 Sep 2024

This position is offered through the ANU Computing Internship ([COMP4820] / [COMP8830])

Company

Department of Health and Aged Care

The Department of Health and Aged Care develops and delivers policies and programs and advises the Australian Government on health, aged care and sport. We work with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure better health for all Australians.

Project

Using natural language processing to extract information from unstructured health text data

Use natural language processing techniques to extract information from free text data such as Medicare item descriptions and create reports/dashboards to present information to stakeholders.

Benefits

Applied machine learning, project management, communication and presentation skills, stakeholder engagement

Required/Preferred technical skills

Computer science, R or Python programming, natural language processing, machine learning, data visualisation

Special Requirements

• Intern requires Australian citizenship

The intern will be required to obtain Baseline security clearance, sponsored by the organisation.

Delivery Mode

In-person/Hybrid.

Type of internship

Paid internship. The intern/s will be engaged as a casual employee.

How to apply

Applications are invited from students who have already passed the eligibility checks for the Computing Internship courses COMP4820 or COMP8830. Further information about the Computing Internships can be found on the Computing Internship page.

You can nominate multiple preferred Internship projects and host organisations through the one application form.

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