[Corpora-List] PhD student needed for a discourse SMT project

[Mark Fishel]

Dear Corpora readers,

We are looking for a PhD student to work at the University of Zurich
on a project on discourse-level SMT. The project ("MODERN: Modeling
Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation") is
funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and aims at advancing
the state of art in inter-sentential machine translation. Funding is
available for a period of three years.

If you are that student, what's in it for you:
- Pretty Alps to conquer and lakes to swim near by
- Small and enthusiastic team, international collaboration
- Swiss National Science Foundation salary rates
   (42,000 CHF 1st year -- 48,000 CHF 3rd year)
- Conference and summer school attendance support

What we expect of you is:
- Master's or Diploma in computational linguistics/computer
science/related field
- Strong technical and programming skills
- Experience in working on statistical machine translation systems
- Languages: good English and German skills

Potential tasks:
- Developing and testing new SMT approaches, supporting
inter-sentential dependencies
- Implementing and evaluating caching models for statistical and maybe
rule-based MT
- Collecting and annotating corpora for discourse-aware MT
- Building ontologies as semantic models for MT

More info on the Institute of Computational Linguistics,
University of Zurich: http://www.cl.uzh.ch/

Applications (including a CV and academic record) should be sent to:
Prof. Martin Volk (volk at cl.uzh.ch)

Application Deadline: 31 August 2013
Proposed starting date: as soon as possible

Best regards,
Mark Fishel, Martin Volk

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