[Corpora-List] Java Software Developer (Machine Translation) [2 positions]

[Lamia Tounsi]

Job Category:	Java Software Developer (Machine Translation) [2 positions]
                         (Temporary contracts to March 2013)
Location: Dublin City University, Ireland

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a DCU-led Science 
Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Centre for Science Engineering and Technology 
directed by Prof. Josef van Genabith. CNGL is a €30M collaborative research 
centre that involves Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, 
University College Dublin, University of Limerick, and nine industrial 
partners who include world leaders in their respective fields.
Our work is guided by the vision of enabling people to interact with content, 
products and services in their own language, according to their own culture, 
and according to their own personal needs.
CNGL is now in the process of expanding its research base through new projects 
funded from a variety of sources (e.g. EU FP7, Enterprise Ireland, etc.).

Given the award of the EU-funded FP7 project PLUTO (Patent Language 
Translation Online), we wish to recruit two Java Software Developers on a 
fixed term contract basis to work in the area of Machine Translation  focused 
on cross-language search and translation of patent and other Intellectual 
Property material.

Duties and Responsibilities

The post-holders will be responsible for the following:
- Specification, design and implementation of system components from DCU's 
MATREX machine translation framework for use in the multi-partner PLUTO 
project targeted at deploying novel search and translation technologies in a 
specific document domain (patents).
- Configuration and deployment of the MATREX machine translation framework in 
a grid computing/cloud computing environment.
- Specification, design and implementation of a range of file handling and 
parsing modules as pre- and post- processing steps in the Machine Translation 
framework.
- Specification, design and implementation of user-facing tools for the 
control and administration of the machine translation process including for 
training (customising) the Statistical Machine Translation system.
- The software developers will work at the interface of both Translation 
Memory (TM) and Machine Translation (MT) systems and with both statistical 
and hybrid rules-based MT systems.

The PLUTO Software Developers will take DCU's research prototype MATREX 
Machine Translation framework and the requirements of the PLUTO project to 
design, implement, evaluate and deploy an Enterprise-quality, 
Commercial-grade software system for cross-language search and 
translation on a cloud-computing infrastructure. The post-holders will also 
work on the integration, deployment and evaluation of diverse system 
components of the overall unified PLUTO solution in collaboration with other 
PLUTO project technology partners.

The Java Software Developers will work closely within a team of researchers 
and with other partners at various academic and commercial locations around 
Europe to deliver on the specified programme of research and development, 
leading to commercial deployment of a system for cross-language patent search 
and translation. The post-holders will also have the benefit of interaction 
with the wider CNGL research and development teams, including the significant 
body of researchers working on Language Technology and Machine Translation at 
CNGL.

Experience and Skills Desired

The post-holders must possess excellent Java Software Development skills and 
demonstrated commercial experience in Java software development. Experience 
with software development in the area of machine learning, statistical 
modelling, language technology or machine translation would 
be a significant advantage.
Specific skills or experiences of relevance include:
- A strong knowledge of grid computing. Experience working with Amazon EC2, 
Windows Azure or Google App Engine.
- Experience in the design of scalable web services, including parallelisation 
of compute-intensive applications (Hadoop)
- Experience in ASP.NET, JSP, Python, PHP, JQuery, CSS, web frameworks, etc.
- Knowledge of file parsing and handling, string manipulation, etc.

A primary degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering is required. A 
graduate degree in Computer Science, particularly in an area related to 
Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, or Machine Translation is 
desirable.
We are also seeking somebody who can carry out focused development projects to 
set timelines and who has excellent communication and team-working skills.
Some knowledge of additional European languages would provide an advantage.

Closing date: 7 May 2010
Salary scales: Commensurate with experience
Application forms are available from: 
Human Resources Department, Dublin City University, Dublin 9.
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5149 Fax: +353 (0)1 700 5500
E-mail: <hr dot applications at dcu dot ie>
– Dublin City University is an equal opportunities employer --

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