[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at National Centre for Language Technology, Dublin City University

[Lamia Tounsi]

An opportunity has arisen at short notice for a two-year postdoctoral 
fellowship at the National Centre for Language Technology, School of 
Computing, Dublin City University. 

The project will be conducted in collaboration with Symantec Ireland and will 
be focused on confidence estimation for Statistical Machine Translation 
(SMT). The aims of the project will be to explore the selection and 
extraction of features for estimating specific aspects of translation quality 
such as document comprehensibility, and to investigate whether system 
combination can benefit from these confidence scores by highlighting 
strengths and weaknesses in individual systems. The candidate will work with 
multiple MT systems and with a variety of datasets including noisy 
user-generated content. 
The project will involve some system integration, as well as preparation and 
fine-tuning for evaluation (using both automatic metrics and user studies).

The successful postdoctoral fellow will have a capacity for independent 
research and will enjoy working in a collaborative research environment. The 
fellow will work closely with a PhD student on a related project 
investigating the use of NLP resources in SMT, and will be required to work 
both in DCU and in the Symantec campus in Dublin.

The successful candidate will have been awarded their PhD by  the start of the 
fellowship and will have spent no longer than 36 months of their post-PhD 
career in another postdoctoral position. Their PhD topic should be in the 
area of computational linguistics and natural language processing, and a 
strong preference will be given to those candidates with machine translation 
experience.

The position will be supported by IRCSET (http://www.ircset.ie). To apply, 
please send a CV and the names of two referees to Johann Roturier 
(johann_roturier at symantec.com) and Jennifer Foster (jfoster at computing.dcu.ie) 
by * Monday 23rd May*.



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