[Corpora-List] Two 3-year PhD studentships in Machine Translation at the University of Sheffield (starting September 2013)

[Lucia Specia]

The Department of Computer Science invites applications for two PhD
studentships in Machine Translation connected to the MODIST project. MODIST
(Modelling Discourse in Statistical Translation) is an EPSRC project aimed
at modelling discourse level relationships across sentences in statistical
machine translation. The studentships will be dedicated to one of the
following projects:

***A framework for learning valid transitions across machine translated
sentences based on rich bilingual linguistic information.
*** Decoding algorithms that represent expected discourse relationships as
document-wide constraints to guide the search for the best translation.

The ideal candidates will hold a first degree (MSc level is a plus) in
computer science, mathematics or statistics. Candidates must have excellent
programming skills. Experience in one or more of the following areas is
desirable: machine learning, natural language processing, statistical
machine translation, and discourse processing.

The studentship will cover the candidates' tuition fees, as well as a
stipend of 13,726/year.  Applications are open to all nationalities, but
due to restrictions from the funding agency, non UK/EU candidates will be
required to cover any differences in tuition fees.

Candidates should submit an application (
https://www.shef.ac.uk/postgradapplication/) including a 500 word research
proposal on one of the above mentioned topics, and a 250 word explanation
of why their skills, experience and plans for further research or study
make them a particularly suitable candidate.

Application closing date: Open until filled, but we are looking to
interview candidates early May.

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

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www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~lucia/ <http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Elucia/>
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