<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1294399478"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">PhD Studentships - 22 Posts - Centre for Next Generation Localisation Laboratories,
Trinity College Dublin<br><br>Post Status: 3 year PhD Studentships<br>Department: Centre for Next Generation Localisation Laboratories, KDEG, Trinity College Dublin<br>Benefits: Payment of tax free stipend and academic fees<br>Closing date for applications: 28th February 2013<br>General enquires concerning these posts can be addressed to <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie">Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie</a><br><span><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv1294399478yui_3_7_2_17_1359971143390_62"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span>Summary:</span><br>The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (www.cngl.ie) seeks to revolutionise the way people<br>interact with content, systems and each other to achieve unprecedented levels of content access,<br>process efficiency and user empowerment. Breakthroughs in the creation, processing,
unification and<br>integration of multilingual,
multi-modal and multimedia content are needed to meet the needs of an<br>increasingly mobile and multilingual society across global markets. CNGL will enable content to be<br>created, discovered, translated and personalised, so as to efficiently and effectively deliver<br>natural and engaging web-mediated interactions between users, organisations and communities<br>regardless of language, device and preferences of the user.<br><br>CNGL is internationally renown for its strong, strategic mix of leading researchers in language,<br>adaptive content, interaction and knowledge engineering technologies and its tight engagement with<br>innovation-driven companies that work with content at a global level. CNGL has recently received<br>further multi-million funding from Science Foundation Ireland. As a result Trinity College Dublin<br>(TCD) is now offering 22 new PhD studentships in the areas of:<br><br>Text Analytics for managing large scale multilingual
corpora.<br>Content-aware multilingual Search and Discovery technologies<br>Adaptive context-aware search<br>Intelligent slicing and adaptation of content<br>Social-aware, affective content adaptation<br>Constructing affective dialogue solutions<br>Interoperability and analytics for intelligent content processing chains<br><span><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv1294399478yui_3_7_2_17_1359971143390_62"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span>Requirements:</span><br>The successful candidate will have an excellent academic record (first class or II.1 primary degree<br>or a postgraduate qualification, e.g. M.Sc.) in Computer Science, or a related discipline. They will<br>be highly motivated, with strong written and oral communication skills and a demonstrated<br>proficiency in software development. They must be eager to work in and learn from multi-disciplinary<br>and multi-organisation teams. They should have
English
language certification if English is not<br>their first language, the requirement being: IELTS: 7.0+, TOEFL iBT: 100+, TOEFL pBT: 600+, CEF:<br>C1+, or equivalent.<br><br>Application Procedure:<br>For further information and informal contact, please refer to the PhD topic details<br>found at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Dominic.Jones/cngl2-phd-details.pdf">http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Dominic.Jones/cngl2-phd-details.pdf</a><br><br>Please directly contact the relevant supervisor, depending upon the position you're interested in,<br>via email including:<br>A targeted cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for a position<br>A complete CV<br>Please also copy Dominic Jones - <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie">Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie</a><br>Applicants may then be invited to apply via the TCD graduate studies admission
system.<br><br>Further Information:<br><br>Centre for
Next Generation Localisation<br>CNGL is a €50M Academia-Industry partnership based in Ireland. It is unique internationally in<br>addressing the integrated research and development of novel content, knowledge and language<br>processing technologies for the global, multi-lingual web content and services supply chain. Â It is<br>made up of over 100 researchers in labs integrated across Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin City<br>University (DCU), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL), as well as ten<br>industrial partners, including SMEs, NGOs and multinationals such as Microsoft, Symantec, Intel and<br>Welocalize. In addition to central funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), CNGL has a wide<br>portfolio of European FP7 projects and commercial projects. It therefore offers unique opportunities<br>for international and industrial research collaboration at the highest level in areas of language<br>technology, multi-lingual
web and adaptive, personalised content. CNGL provides a world class<br>collaborative research and innovation environment. It provides: world-class PhD supervision by<br>integrated teams of leading academics; an experienced and supportive lab community of postdoctoral<br>researchers and research programmers; excellent collaboration and computing facilities; wide ranging<br>skills training opportunities; a dedicated management and administration team and an active<br>commercialisation development pipeline.<br><span><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv1294399478yui_3_7_2_17_1359971143390_62"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span>Trinity College Dublin</span><br>Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland and one of the older<br>universities of Western Europe. On today’s campus, state-of-the-art libraries, laboratories and IT<br>facilities, stand alongside historic buildings on
a city-centre
47-acre campus. Based in the heart<br>of Dublin, TCD offers an exceptional working and social environment that attracts students and<br>researchers from around the world. TCD’s research impact is currently ranked 44th in the World by<br>the Times Higher Education Ranking of World Universities and 10th in Europe by the Leiden University<br>Ranking of World Universities based on research performance. As Ireland’s premier university, the<br>pursuit of excellence through research and scholarship is at the core of a Trinity education. TCD<br>has an outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a track record in winning<br>research funding which is among the best in the country.<br><span><br></span></span></div><div class="yiv1294399478yui_3_7_2_17_1359971143390_62"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span>Equal Opportunities Policy</span><br>Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities
employer and is
committed to the employment<br>policies, procedures and practices which do not discriminate on grounds such as gender, marital<br>status, family status, age, disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of<br>the travelling community. See also: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/Research2012.pdf">https://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/Research2012.pdf</a><br></span><br> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>