[Corpora-List] Post-Doctoral Researcher (Machine Translation) Vacancy

[Lamia Tounsi]

Job category:	Post-Doctoral Researcher (Machine Translation)
			(Temporary contract to March 2013)
Location: 	Dublin City University, Ireland

The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) is a DCU-led Science 
Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded Centre for Science Engineering and Technology 
directed by Prof. Josef van Genabith. CNGL is a €30M collaborative research 
centre that involves Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, 
University College Dublin, University of Limerick, and nine industrial 
partners who include world leaders in their respective fields.
Our work is 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.
CNGL is now in the process of expanding its research base through new projects 
funded from a variety of sources (e.g. EU FP7, Enterprise Ireland, etc.).

Given the award of the EU-funded project PLUTO (Patent Language Translation 
Online), we wish to recruit a Post-Doctoral Researcher on a fixed term 
contract basis to work in the area of Machine Translation focused on 
cross-language search and translation of patent and other Intellectual 
Property material.

Duties and Responsibilities
- The post-holder will be responsible for the specification, design and 
evaluation of system components and configurations for DCU's MATREX machine 
translation framework for use in the multi-partner PLUTO research project 
targeted at deploying novel search and translation technologies in a specific 
document domain (patents).
- He / she will work at the interface of both Translation Memory (TM) and 
Machine Translation (MT) systems and with both statistical and hybrid 
rules-based MT systems.
- He / she will work closely within the DCU team of researchers and software 
developers and with other partners at various academic and commercial 
locations around Europe to deliver on the specified programme of research and 
development, leading to commercial deployment of a system for cross-language 
patent search and translation. The post-holder will also have the benefit of 
interaction with the wider CNGL research team, including the significant body 
of researchers working on Language Technology and Machine Translation at 
CNGL.

Experience and Skills Required
The post-holder must possess a research Doctoral degree in multilingual 
language technologies, preferably directly related to Machine Translation, or 
a related discipline. Research and/or industrial 
experience in multilingual language technologies, in particular Machine 
Translation, or related discipline is required. We are also seeking somebody 
who can demonstrate:
- Ability to carry out focused research projects to set timelines
- Excellent communication and teamworking skills.
- Experience in software development related to Machine Translation systems 
would be a distinct advantage.
- Some knowledge of additional European languages would provide an advantage.

The PLUTO project is a development-oriented project, where the aim is to 
develop existing Machine Translation technology toward commercial deployment, 
rather than a basic research project aiming to advance the state of the art 
in MT algorithms. The candidate should therefore have a preference for a 
career path in applied research and advanced technology development rather 
than basic research.

Closing date: 7 May 2010
Salary scales: €37,750 - €46,255
Application forms are available from: 
Human Resources Department, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5149 Fax: +353 (0)1 700 5500
E-mail: <hr dot applications at dcu dot ie>
--Dublin City University is an equal opportunities employer--

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