16.2372, Jobs: Comp Ling: Researcher, Dublin City University

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Subject: 16.2372, Jobs: Comp Ling: Researcher, Dublin City University

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Date: 11-Aug-2005
From: Minako O'Hagan < minako.ohagan at dcu.ie >
Subject: Computational Linguistics:  Researcher, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland 

	
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:30:40
From: Minako O'Hagan < minako.ohagan at dcu.ie >
Subject: Computational Linguistics:  Researcher, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland  
 

University or Organization: Dublin City University 
Department: SALIS & School of Computing
Job Rank: Researcher  
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Required Language(s): German, Standard (GER)
                      Japanese (JPN) 


Description:

Postgraduate Research Opportunities 

The School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and the
School of Computing at Dublin City University are pleased to announce three
postgraduate researcher positions to work on a project in the area of
Data-Driven Machine Translation for audio-visual applications. Successful
applicants will be registered for a Masters or Doctoral degree by research
at Dublin City University and will receive a stipend to the value of 19,000
euro (inc. fees and travel allowance) in the first year (to be reviewed at
the end of the first year). 

We are looking for two researchers with:
- an honours Bachelors degree in translation studies, language, inguistics,
computational linguistics, or other relevant area
- knowledge of German or Japanese
- familiarity with computer-aided translation and alignment techniques
- excellent communication skills and preferably
- knowledge of screen translation 
- excellent corpus-analysis skills

We are looking for one researcher with:
- an honours Bachelors degree in computational linguistics, computer
science, or other relevant area
- excellent communication skills and preferably
- experience in implementing Example-based Machine Translation Systems 
- knowledge of automatic evaluation metrics for Machine Translation


Applicants should send their CVs and letter of motivation to
Rodney Lafferty (rodney.lafferty at dcu.ie) at the School of Applied Language
and Intercultural Studies. Intending applicants are welcome to contact Dr.
Minako O'Hagan (minako.ohagan at dcu.ie) or Dr Andy Way
(away at computing.dcu.ie) or Dr Dorothy Kenny (dorothy.kenny at dcu.ie) to
discuss their applications.

Address for Applications:

Mr Rodney Lafferty 
c/o SALIS 
Dublin City University 
Dublin, Dublin 9 9 
Ireland  

Application Deadline: 09-Sep-2005 

Contact Information:

Dr Minako O'Hagan 
Email: minako.ohagan at dcu.ie 
Phone: +353 1 7005194 
Fax: +353 1 7005527





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