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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Two PhD
positions in Machine Translation<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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Please check the *<b>requirements</b>* for these positions before
applying. <br>
The full text and <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>instructions
for application<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> are found at
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href="http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/content/2012/11/12-251.html">http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/content/2012/11/12-251.html</a>
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Summary<span
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Applications are invited for two Ph.D. positions in Machine
Translation at the ILLC (University of Amsterdam).
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Both positions are four-year Early Stage Researcher pre-doctoral
positions. The positions are part of the new EU Framework 7
Marie-Curie Network EXPERT, <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://expert-itn.eu/"><http://expert-itn.eu/></a>
concerned with the exploitation of empirical approaches to machine
translation, including statistical machine translation and
example-based machine translation.
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The two positions at the ILLC (UvA) concern research towards:
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Position 1
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Exploiting hierarchical alignments for linguistically-informed SMT
models to meet the hybrid approaches that aim at compositional
translation (UvA, including 3-month visit to USAAR and 3-month visit
to USFD)
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Position 2
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Exploiting hierarchical alignments for a semantically-enriched SMT
system that offers an extension to existing TMs to allow
incremental, recursive partial match of the input using hierarchical
constructions containing variables (UvA, including 3-month visit to
UoW, 2-month visit to Wordfast and 1-month visit to Hermes).
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Details
and application<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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The full text of these vacancies and*instructions for application*
are found at
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/content/2012/11/12-251.html">http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/content/2012/11/12-251.html</a>
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The closing date for all applications is 10 January, 2013.
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Dr Khalil Sima'an
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Associate Professor
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Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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University of Amsterdam
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Tel#: +31-20-525 6573
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Fax#: +31-20-525 5206
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan</a>
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