[Corpora-List] Postdoc position in Machine Translation at Dublin City University for the Abu-MaTran project

Tue Sep 17 06:35:24 UTC 2013

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Research Centre: CNGL, Abu-MaTran: Automatic Building of Machine Translation
Post Title: Post doctoral Researcher
Post Duration: 24 month contract

---------- Overview ----------

The machine translation group at Dublin City University (DCU) is an 
internationally recognised
group in this area of research, in which it has been active during the 
last two decades. The group is
part of CNGL, a €50M Academia-Industry partnership, funded jointly by 
Science Foundation
Ireland (SFI) and Industry. DCU is ranked in the top 50 of young 
universities worldwide (under 50
years old) (QS ranking) and in the top 100 under the Times Higher 
Education (under 50 years)
ranking scheme. Abu-MaTran (Automatic Building of Machine Translation) 
is an Industry-
Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) - Marie Curie Actions FP7 
project in which the group
is currently involved. The project aims at increasing the hitherto low 
industrial adoption of machine
translation by identifying crucial cutting-edge research techniques and 
preparing them to be suitable
for commercial exploitation. Besides DCU as project coordinator, the 
project involves a company
(Prompsit Language Engineering) and three research institutions 
(Universitat d'Alacant, University
of Zagreb and Institute for Language and Speech Processing).

The position involves research, development and participation in 
outreach activities to achieve the
goals of the Abu-MaTran project as well as collaboration with all 
researchers in the project.

---------- Main Duties and Responsibilities ----------

- Investigate, in collaboration with the partners, techniques for hybrid 
MT (pivot,
linguistically-augmented SMT, etc)
- Be in charge of the MT systems developed in the project (training, 
deployment, evaluation,
etc.)
- Implement a software management policy in the research group.
- Release the output as free/open-source tools with appropriate 
interfaces to use them.
- Write the appropriate documentation for each of the work lines: 
technical documentation,
academic-oriented (papers, posters, etc.) publications, and tutorials or 
manuals
- Attend project-related conferences and meetings
- Present the results at relevant conferences and scientific meetings
- Review work plan with the collaborators according to project 
intermediate milestones and
results
- Get involved and give support to outreach activities

---------- Person Specification ----------

The committee in charge of the recruitment process will use a range of 
selection methods to
measure candidates' abilities in these areas including reviewing your 
application, seeking
references, inviting shortlisted candidates to be interviewed, and other 
forms of assessment action
relevant to the post.

Applicants should provide evidence in their applications that they meet 
the following criteria:

Qualifications (compulsory): PhD in Computer Science and less than 10 
years of full-time
research experience.

International procedure (compulsory): the candidate cannot have worked 
or lived for more than
12 months within the last 3 years in the Republic of Ireland.

Experience in:
- Natural language processing, particularly in machine translation 
(compulsory).
- Developer-level experience in SMT (compulsory) and RBMT (desirable)
- Machine learning (compulsory)
- MT evaluation (desirable)
- Creation of user interfaces and software releasing/sharing (desirable)

Programming languages: Python and perl (compulsory). JAVA or C++ 
(desirable).

Multilingual skills: Good level of English (compulsory). Knowledge of 
the South Slavic
Languages targeted in the project use case -- Croatian, Bosnian, 
Serbian, Montenegrin and
Slovenian (desirable).

Good writing and communication skills: ability to intercommunicate with 
people and to
communicate results, ideas, etc. (compulsory).

Collaborative working skills: ability to take and delegate 
responsibilities (compulsory).

Experience in free/open-source software development: participation in 
free/open-source software
development projects as user or, better, as contributor (desirable).

Experience in transfer of knowledge between the industry and the 
academy: interaction
between industry and academy in previous positions is highly valued 
(desirable)

Creativity and flexibility skills: ability to be open to different ideas 
or opinions, to analyse and
solve problems and to make decisions (compulsory).

---------- Further Information ----------

This post is fixed-term and full-time at DCU (Dublin, Ireland). The 
starting date is January 2014
and duration is 24 months.

The stipulated gross salary will be €48,766 per year, corresponding to 
living allowance, and an
additionally €700/€1,000 per month for mobility allowance (depending on 
family situation).

Further information on the project can be found on its website, 
www.abumatran.eu
For informal enquiries about the post please contact Dr Antonio Toral: 
atoral at computing.dcu.ie

Closing date: 4ht October 2013.

---------- Application Procedure ----------

Application forms are available from the DCU Current Vacancies (open 
Competitions) website
at http://www.dcu.ie/vacancies/current.shtml and also from the Human 
Resources Department, Dublin City
University, Dublin 9. Tel:+353 (0) 1 7005149.

Applications should be submitted by email to hr.applications at dcu.ie or 
by Fax: +353 (0)1 7005500 or by
post to the Human Resources Department, Dublin City University, Dublin 9.

Dublin City University is an equal opportunities employer

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