[Corpora-List] PhD Studentship: Statistical Machine Translation - University of Wolverhampton

[Lucia Specia]

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              PhD Studentship in Statistical Machine Translation
                            Closing date: April, 12 2010
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites
applications for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in the area of
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). The PhD candidate will be
expected to carry out research in the topic of exploiting contextual
information for SMT, including context-dependent modeling for word
alignment, translation lexicons, language modeling, discriminative
training, MT evaluation, semantic context for SMT, textual entailment
for SMT, etc. He/she will contribute to the design, implementation,
and evaluation of advanced SMT approaches taking into account richer
forms of context.

A successful applicant must have:
•	A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics,
Statistics or closely related areas.
•	Strong programming skills in at least one of the following
languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Perl.
•	Acquaintance with machine learning and statistical modeling techniques.
•	Experience in computational linguistics / natural language
processing, particularly the area of machine translation / statistical
machine translation.

Knowledge of foreign languages (besides English) is a plus.

The starting date of the PhD position is September/October 2010.

The studentship includes the tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of
£12,000 GBP per year for three years.

The application deadline is April 12, 2010.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Lucia Specia
L.Specia at wlv.ac.uk

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered,
publications, relevant work experience, and names of two referees that
could be contacted if necessary.

2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research interests,
indicating why you are interested in this position and why you
consider your experience is relevant.

The short-listed applicants will be interviewed by telephone in the
weeks following the application deadline.

The successful PhD candidate will work with the Computational
Linguistics group (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/). Established by Prof. Ruslan
Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is a
highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of
NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation,
question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text
categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction,
corpus construction and annotation, automatic
terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice
question generation. To a large extent, this research has been
undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and
commercial partners.

The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on
17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational
Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research
group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and
Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According
to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research
Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton
is one of the top 6 best in the UK.

Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to:

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: L.Specia at wlv.ac.uk

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