[Corpora-List] Two salaried PhD positions in corpus-based machine translation at Saarland University - Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT

[Mihaela Vela]

      Department 4.6


      Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting, Saarland
      University, Germany

is inviting applications for*two* three-year Early Stage Researcher 
pre-doctoral positions in corpus-based approaches to machine 
translation. 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 two projects allocated to Saarland University are:

 1. Investigation of an ideal translation workflow for hybrid
    translation, which is concerned with translation technology in real
    world environments.
 2. Use of terminologies and ontologies to improve corpus-based
    approaches to translation, which is concerned with NLP technologies
    for matching text translations and retrieval techniques used in
    machine translation.


The work in both projects will focus on statistical and machine learning 
techniques to address the problems. It will also involve aspects of 
human translation studies, based on a strong interaction with some of 
the partners in EXPERT. The research will be conducted in the research 
environment of Saarland University, with opportunities for collaborative 
work with several of the leading universities and industrial partners in 
EXPERT, and with the expectation of a 6 month secondments to 2-3 
partners in this project based on their topic of research.

Applicants should hold a good honours degree in a relevant field of 
study (e.g. computational linguistics, computer science) and have 
experience in natural language processing, machine translation or 
related area. They should also have a solid background in statistics and 
good programming skills (C/C++, Java, Python/Perl, etc.). See the job 
specification for more details on the expected profile: 
http://134.96.85.107/fileadmin/user_upload/abt/sdv/dev/Job_EXPERT-uds1_02.pdf 
and 
http://134.96.85.107/fileadmin/user_upload/abt/sdv/dev/Job_EXPERT-uds2_01.pdf.

The *application process* consists of two compulsory stages:

*Stage 1*: Go to www.expert-itn.eu <http://www.expert-itn.eu/>and enter 
the basic details requested. You will receive a reference number and 
confirmation.

*Stage 2*: Email your application to d.schreyer at mx.uni-saarland.de. 
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attach a copy of your confirmation from www.expert-itn.eu 
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Only applicants completing both of the above stages will be considered.

*Eligibility criteria*: 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. As per Marie Curie Terms and Conditions, 
researchers must not have resided in the country of application for more 
than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the appointment. More 
information on the Marie Curie scheme regarding eligibility criteria can 
be found in Section III.3 of this 
documentftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf. 
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Female candidates meeting the requirements for these posts are 
particularly encouraged to apply.

*Salary for this grade*: The successful individual will be employed as a 
salaried researcher at Saarland University, while studying his/her PhD. 
Salary rates and additional mobility and training allowances are as per 
the Marie Curie rates (see Annex 3 of this document 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/download?docId=31562, 
page 69).__

The post is *full-time* and *fixed-term* for three years starting on the 
1 March 2013 or soon after.

*Closing date*: 31.12.2012

For informal enquiries contact Prof. Dr. Elke Teich on 
e.teich at mx.uni-saarland.de 
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