35.130, Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Translation: Chair in Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Subject: 35.130, Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Translation: Chair in Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Date: 22-Dec-2023
From: Mikhail Kissine [Mikhail.Kissine at ulb.be]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Translation: Chair in Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Université Libre de Bruxelles


University or Organization: Université Libre de Bruxelles
Job Location: Bruxelles, Belgium
Job Title: Chair in Translation and Artificial Intelligence
Job Rank: Asst/Assoc Professor

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Translation; Artificial
Intelligence

Description:

The School of Translation and Interpreting (ISTI-Cooremans) of the
Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication at ULB is opening a
chair in translation and artificial intelligence. The position comes
along with an equivalent of at least 4 years of doctoral grants,
reserved for PhD candidates to be supervised by the holder of the
chair.

Courses taught by the holder of the chair will focus on theoretical,
professional, legal, ethical and societal aspects relating to
translation and interpreting in the age neural machine translation and
artificial intelligence. In the master’s programme, he or she is
expected to teach students how to create, develop and maintain
terminological databases and how to train and evaluate machine
translation systems. The holder of the chair will teach students how
machine translation works, in order to provide them with the skills
and insights that are necessary to effectively use machine
translation.

Courses included in the teaching assignment at the time of
recruitment:
BA1 (core curriculum course) - Ethical and societal aspects of machine
translation – 24h
MA1 (core curriculum course) - Creation and use of multilingual
corpora – 24h
MA 1 (obligatory course in localisation and project management module)
- Training  and evaluating MT systems – 24h

In total, the holder of the chair is expected to teach 120 hours per
academic year.  In addition to these three courses, The holder of the
chair will therefore have to   propose and design  courses in line
with their research interests, the research axes defined by the
department’s research centres and the department’s study programmes.

Required qualifications
PhD in Linguistics, communication science and/or translation studies
or any other domain closely related to machine translation.

Required skills
 - The candidate must have at least 4 years of scientific seniority at
the time of recruitment.
 - The candidate has conducted post-doctoral research and has an
excellent scientific record.
 - Pre- and post-doctoral international mobility experience is
considered a plus.
 - Core curriculum courses must be taught in French both in the
bachelor’s and master’s programme.  A 3-year transition period may be
granted to candidates whose mastery of French does not yet reach the
C2 proficiency level at the time of recruitment.
 - The candidate has demonstrable expert knowledge in the
abovementioned research domains and can establish links with
professional translation practices.
 - The candidate has experience with multilingual data processing and
has a keen interest in modern languages and translation.
 - The candidate must have higher education or university teaching
experience and excellent pedagogical skills.
 - The candidate will show initiative and be able to work as part of a
team to coordinate teaching and research activities.

For more information, please email the contact listed below.
Applications must be sent by e-mail to the Rectorate of the Université
Libre de Bruxelles (rectrice at ulb.be) and to Dean of the Faculty of
Letters, Translation and Communication (Doyen.LTC at ulb.be).


The application dossier must contain:
 - an application letter;
 - a Curriculum vitae including a list of publications
 - a 7,000-character report, spaces included, in French (4 pages)
presenting the applicant’s research activities and a research project
in the domain of multilingualism, translation and artificial
intelligence, detailing how Tradital’s primary research axes can be
further developed;
 - a teaching dossier including a 7,000-character report, spaces
included, in French (4 pages) on the applicant's previous teaching
activities and a teaching project for the first three years in this
position; candidates must explain how they aim to contribute
meaningfully to the existing undergraduate and master's programs.

Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2024
Mailing Address for Applications:
Email Address for Applications: rectrice at ulb.be, Doyen.LTC at ulb.be
Web Address for Applications: https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules
/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8470.pdf
Contact Information:
        Frédéric Lohest
        Email: frederic.lohest at ulb.be



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