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These two positions are available in the Department of
Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, in
the GRF project "Developing Language Resources and Facilities to
Enhance the Automation of Bilingual Legal Drafting in HK" (PI: Dr.
Chunyu Kit) funded by the Research Grant Council of HKSAR. The project
is aimed at utilizing and developing Web mining and machine
translation technologies to facilitate bilingual legal drafting in the
context of Hong Kong, where two official languages are accorded equal
status. <br>
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1. Senior Research Assistant / Research Associate (1.5-2 years)<br>
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Duties: Bilingual resource acquisition via web mining, text alignment
and interaction with users of an online bilingual editing platform, and
the development and evaluation of the platform.<br>
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Requirements: A Master’s degree/PhD in Computational Linguistics,
Machine Translation or related disciplines with strong experience in
web mining and machine translation (esp. text alignment). Strong skills
and experience with database and web programming (using
Java/JavaScript, Servlet, JSP, AJAX and/or other commonly-used web
programming languages). Basic knowledge of legal terminology. Strong
publication records preferred. Good interpersonal and communication
skills, and good command of written and spoken English and Chinese are
required.<br>
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2. (Web) Programmer I/II (1.5-2 years)<br>
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Duties: Develop of dynamic web interface for an online bilingual
editing platform supported by a large scale bilingual knowledge base,
and perform any other duties as assigned.<br>
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Requirements: A good honours degree/Master’s degree in Computer
Science, Computational Linguistics or related disciplines with at least
2 years’ relevant experience. Professional skills and strong
experience in web programming with Java/JavaScript, Servlet, JSP, AJAX
and other commonly-used web programming languages and in large scaled
data handling (including text mining and efficient test processing).
Basic knowledge of legal terminology and machine translation. Good
interpersonal and communication skills, and good command of written and
spoken English and Chinese are required. Candidates with less
experience may be considered for appointment as Programmer II.<br>
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Conditions of Service<br>
Fringe benefits include leave, medical and dental consultations at the
campus clinic. <br>
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Other information: The PI's research group is a small one, achieving
quite some top rankings in a number of shared tasks /evaluation
exercises (incl. Chinese word segmentation bakeoff, CoNLL shared task
on syn./sem. dependency parsing, Chinese parsing evaluation and a few
others) and holding the best performance records in Chinese word
segmentation and parsing (both Chinese and English). We are expecting
high caliber researchers to join us in our pursuit of excellence. <br>
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<span style="">Please feel free to forward this e-mail to potential
candidates and/or contact the PI</span><span style=""> for further
information</span><span style="">.<br>
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Thank you very much.<br>
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Chunyu Kit, PhD
Associate Professor, Computational Linguistics
Dept. of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, HKSAR
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/%7Ectckit/">http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~ctckit/</a>
Tel: (+852)3442 9310 (O), 9810 0731 (M)
(+86)135 3948 3937 (China Mobile)
Fax: (+852)3442 0358, 3442 0359</pre>
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