<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">Hello all,<br><br>the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) in Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, is recruiting 2 PhD candidates to work as part of a localisation research group on <b>machine translation technology to assist patients with limited English proficiency when communicating with healthcare professionals. </b>Although the project is two-fold, focussing on both new linguistic minorities in Dublin, such as Polish, as well as the Irish Deaf Community and Irish Sign Language, candidates will focus on one particular language pairing (spoken or signed) and will work on a specific area aligned with their interests and skills.<br>
<br>Below is a brief synopsis of the CNGL and an over view of the project itself and I have attached the recruitment flyer as well. I would appreciate if you could please circulate this information to anyone whom you think may be interested.<br>
<br><i>The Centre for Next Generation Localisation</i><br>The CNGL (<a href="http://www.cngl.ie">http://www.cngl.ie</a>) is a dynamic academia-industry partnership with over 100 researchers developing novel technologies addressing the key localisation challenges of volume, access and personalisation.</font> The research is "<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="6"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US"></span></font>guided by the vision of enabling people to interact
with content, products and services in their own language, according
to their own culture, and according to their own personal
needs". The project described here is part of the Integrated Language Technology track with one of its aims being to develop translation technology.<br><br><i>Translation Technology for Patients with Limited English<br>
</i><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Research will focus on the use of language technology in general, and <b>translation</b>
in particular, to <b>assist patients with limited English when communicating
with healthcare professionals</b> such as doctors and medical secretaries. This
project has a two-fold focus that includes patients of <i>new linguistic
minorities</i> in Ireland, as well as <b><i>native Deaf</i> users of Irish Sign
Language</b>. We will be focussing on scenarios that take place in clinic and
hospital reception areas, such as appointment scheduling, registering for
treatment, collecting prescriptions, leaving samples, etc.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">We are interested in the application of all technologies to this scenario,
including, but not restricted, to <i>speech translation</i> and <i>sign
language translation</i>. We welcome applicants who are interested in
developing applications for linguistic minorities in Ireland, particularly
Polish and the Deaf community.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">The successful candidate will work in a group of 4 researchers on this
minority language application as part of the wider machine translation group.
He/she will most likely concentrate on one particular aspect of the general
problem, such as speech/sign input or output, multi-modal interfaces,
text-translation etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">PhD positions are typically for 4 years and are based
at <b>Dublin City University, Ireland </b>starting in autumn 2008. Students
will work with Prof. Harold Somers and Dr. Sara Morrissey and will receive a
stipend of about €16,000 in addition to payment of registration fees. Students
will work in the well-equipped laboratories of the CNGL with ample opportunity
for travel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US">Candidates for these positions will
ideally have a demonstrated background and interest in social science and/or
sign language, as well as computing competencies with an interest in Natural
Language Processing and/or Machine Translation.</span></p>
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Please email applications
with C.V. to: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: blue;" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:hsomers@computing.dcu.ie">hsomers@computing.dcu.ie</a></span></b><br><br><br>Namasté,<br>
Sara<br><br>Dr. Sara Morrissey,<br>Post-doctoral Researcher,<br>Centre for Next Generation Localisation,<br>Dublin City University,<br>Dublin 9,<br>Ireland.<br><br>Tel: +353 1 700 6914<br><br></div>