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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Human Language Technology (HLT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="">Trento</span>,</span> Italy) in conjunction with the the </span><a href="http://ict.unitn.it/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ICT International Doctorate School of the University of <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Trento</span></span></a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is pleased to announce the availability of three fully-funded 3-year </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="">PhD</span></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> positions in the following NLP topics:</span></span></p>

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<a href="http://hlt.fbk.eu/open-positions/PhD_Fellowships_to_start_in_2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Machine Translation: Human in the loop for advanced machine translation</span></a></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://hlt.fbk.eu/open-positions/PhD_Fellowships_to_start_in_2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Automatic Speech Recognition: Acoustic Modeling for Speech Recognition</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://hlt.fbk.eu/open-positions/PhD_Fellowships_to_start_in_2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Content Processing: Building the Web of Data exploiting Natural Language Processing</span></a></p>

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</span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Job Description</span></h3>

<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The first year is mainly devoted to the acquisition of scientific knowledge at both basic and high level. During the second year the  <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> candidate will deepen his/her scientific knowledge and starts to establish his/her thesis work, identifying the objectives and research activities to be developed within the thesis. During the third year, the  <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> candidate will focus on his/her personal contribution to the state-of-the-art on the chosen research problem and/or to the development of the proposed technological innovation. The research activity of the <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> candidate will be closely related to EU projects. This will allow the <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> candidate to develop collaborations with other researchers participating in these research projects and it may also allow him/her to spend part of his research activity at partner laboratories. Possibility of internships in academia and  industry. The  <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span>  candidates  have  to  pass the  selection  of  the  ICT Doctorate School  to be  enrolled as <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span>  students. The starting date of <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> program flexible after September, 2014. </span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The applicant must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should</span></p>

<ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">have strong curiosity to solve problems in natural language processing</span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">have a strong background in statistics, probability theory and machine learning</span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">have excellent programming skills in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, or Java</span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets</span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Good knowledge of written and spoken English </span></p>

</li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">enjoy working in a closely collaborating team</span></p>

</li></ul><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Working Environment</font></span></h3>

<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The doctoral student will be employed at the HLT group, a unit for research in natural language processing at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Trento</span>, Italy. The group has a long tradition in research on machine translation, automatic speech recognition and content processing. Currently, the HLT groups is involved in several European projects such as Matecat, Eu-Bridge and Excitement. Former students are nowadays employed in leader IT companies in the world. </span></p>

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<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Important Dates</font></span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The opening of the call is expected at the beginning of May 2014. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Potential candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. There is also the possibility to begin with an internships at our group during the Summer before the official <span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD</span> program starts, sport facilities.</span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, competitive salary, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help for housing (and partial reimbursement), full health insurance, possibility of Italian courses, sporting facilities.</span></p>

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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information about the position, please contact: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">Dr. Claudio Giuliano (<a href="mailto:giuliano@fbk.eu" target="_blank">giuliano@fbk.eu</a>).</span></span></p>

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