Job: Two salaried PhD positions in Machine Translation at Wolverhampton

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:25:19 +0000
From: "Maarouf, Ismall" <I.Maarouf at wlv.ac.uk>
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TWO SALARIED PHD POSITIONS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION AT UNIVERSITY OF
WOLVERHAMPTON- Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT
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Applications are invited for two three-year Early Stage Researcher
pre-doctoral positions in hybrid language translation technologies. The
positions are part of the new EU Framework 7 Marie-Curie Network EXPERT,
concerned with the exploitation of empirical approaches to machine
translation, including statistical machine translation and example-based
machine translation.

The EXPERT project brings together researchers from six European
universities (University of Wolverhampton (UoW), University of Sheffield
(USFD), Universidad de Malaga (UMA), Universitaet des Saarlandes
(USAAR), Dublin City University (DCU) and Universiteit van Amsterdam
(UvA)) and five translation services and technology providers
(Pangeanic, Hermes and Translated, Celer Soluciones and WordFast).

The two projects allocated to the University of Wolverhampton are :

1). Use of language technology to improve matching & retrieval in
translation memories; 

2). Investigation of methodologies to evaluate the improved SMT, EBMT
and TM prototypes and new hybrid computer-aided translation technology
proposed in EXPERT.

The research will be conducted under supervision of University of
Wolverhampton with opportunities for collaborative work with other
universities and industrial partners in EXPERT, and with the expectation
of a 6 month secondment to 2-3 partners in this project based on the
topic of research.

This is an opportunity to work in a well-connected international team
with world-leading reputation in the Natural Language Processing
(NLP). The Research Group in Computational Linguistics
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/) is considered one of the top performers in UK
research.

SALARY
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The successful individual will be employed as a salaried researcher
while studying towards his/her PhD. Salary rates and additional
mobility, career and travel allowances are as per the Marie Curie
programme (see Annex 3 of this document
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/download?docId=31562,
page 69). For employment in the UK, the reference figure for gross
salary is 51,062 euros/year.

The post is fixed term for three years with a start date of 1 February
2013 or soon after.

REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
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Appointment will be subject to the eligibility requirements of the Marie
Curie programme, which specify that early stage researchers must be, at
the time of recruitment, in the first four years of their research
careers, measured from the date when they obtained the qualification
which would entitle them to embark on a doctorate.

Please check Section III.3 of the following link for further information
on the Marie Curie scheme regarding eligibility criteria:
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf
. In particular, candidates cannot have lived in the country of their
chosen host university for more than 12 months in the 3 years
immediately prior to their appointment.

Applicants should hold a good honours degree in a relevant field of
study (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics) and have
experience in natural language processing, machine translation or
related area. They should also have a solid background in
mathematics/statistics and excellent programming skills (C/C++, Java,
Python/Perl, etc.). See the job specification for more details on the
expected profile:
https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=3045&p_function=map&p_title=Current%20vacancies

HOW TO APPLY
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The application process consists of two compulsory stages:

- Stage 1: Register and fill in the application form on the EXPERT
  website (http://expert-itn.eu/). You will receive a reference number
  and confirmation.

- Stage 2: Use the application system of the University of Wolverhampton
  (https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.list?p_web_site_id=3045&p_function=map&p_title=Current%20vacancies),
  please make sure to include:

        . Detailed CV;
        . A copy of your confirmation from the expert-itn.eu;
        . 2 page summary on the research to be undertaken on the chosen
          topic. It should include, but is not limited to, a). aim of
          the research; b). general research question to be refined
          during the Phd; c). research plan; d). why do have necessary
          skills to undertake this project?


Closing date: 11 January 2013

More information can be found at http://expert-itn.eu


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