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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>See: <span style='color:#555555'><a href="http://www-int.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Optimization-and-Sampling-Techniques-for-Statistical-Machine-Translation">http://www-int.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Optimization-and-Sampling-Techniques-for-Statistical-Machine-Translation</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Start Date : Around June 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Duration : 4-5 months<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>The MLDAT area (Machine Learning for Document Access and Translation) at XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe) is opening an internship to pursue its current research line in <i>Optimization and Sampling Techniques for Statistical Machine Translation</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>XRCE has developed some algorithms, which combine optimization and sampling in novel ways in order to perform inference and training for a number of NLP tasks, in the presence of complex feature spaces. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>We are looking for a motivated intern to pursue this line of work, further implement these techniques and perform experiments in the context of phrase-based and/or syntax-based translation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>The successful candidate should be enrolled in a graduate program, at the Master or (preferably) PhD level, with focus on Machine Learning, Optimization, Statistical NLP, or (ideally) Statistical Machine Translation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Strong programming skills (one or several of C/C++, Python, Java…) are a requirement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>IMPORTANT. Priority will be given to students who are members of institutions affiliated to the PASCAL-2 network of excellence. </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>A partial list of such institutions is available at: <a href="http://pascallin2.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Network/Sites" target="_self">http://pascallin2.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Network/Sites</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'>For further details, please contact Marc Dymetman (<a href="mailto:marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com">marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>-------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>Principal Scientist 6, chemin de Maupertuis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>Machine Learning for 38240 Meylan, FRANCE <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>Document Access and Translation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif"'>marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/people/dymetman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif"'>www.xrce.xerox.com/people/dymetman</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=FR-CA style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone: +33 (0)4 76 61 50 66 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 61 50 99 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New","serif";color:#1F497D'>-------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>