[Corpora-List] Research Associate in Machine Translation at the University of Sheffield (closing date: 15/05/13)

[Lucia Specia]

The Department of Computer Science has a position for a Research Associate
in Machine Translation funded by the MODIST and QTLaunchPad projects to
investigate the use of discourse information to improve statistical machine
translation quality and its evaluation.

MODIST (Modelling Discourse in Statistical Translation) is an UK EPSRC
project aimed at the problem of modelling discourse level relationships
across sentences in statistical machine translation. QTLaunchPad (
http://www.qt21.eu/launchpad/) is an EU FP7 initiative that aims to produce
a better environment for large-scale collaborative research on high-quality
machine translation. The work at the University of Sheffield focuses on
quality estimation metrics, including document-wide metrics.

Applicants should have:

- PhD (or equivalent work experience) in Computer Science, Statistics/Maths
or related area
- Experience in natural language processing, particularly machine
translation or discourse processing
- Experience in machine learning
- Strong programming skills in Perl/Python, C++, Java, etc.

Salary: £28,685 per year

Duration: 20 months, starting as soon as possible after May 15

For applications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs, search and apply for  jobs
using reference number
UOS006365

Closing date: 15 May 2013.

For informal inquiries contact Dr. Lucia Specia: L.Specia at sheffield.ac.uk
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