[Corpora-List] Experienced Researcher in NLP - Rome, Italy

Fri May 16 07:29:30 UTC 2014

Experienced Researcher in NLP - Rome, Italy

To apply: http://translated.theresumator.com/apply/ZelvxO/Experienced-Researcher-In-NLP.html

Translated.net is looking for a post-doctoral researcher (Experienced Researcher - ER) to investigate and develop automatic methods for collection and preparation of multilingual data.

The ER will complement the work of an ESR (Early Stage Researcher - ESR) with humanities background in the building of the computational infrastructure for automatic data collection, based on the model designed for manual collection by the ESR.

The contract offered has a duration of maximum 24 months or till 30th Sept 2016, whichever comes first.

Requirements

We are looking for an open minded person that loves programming and is focused on quality and performance.

*         Master or doctorate in IT, computer engineering or mathematics

*         World-class programming skills

*         In-depth knowledge of: Java, PHP, MySQL

*         In-depth knowledge of: Regular expressions / REST web services

*         Knowledge of client side technologies: JQuery / HTML / HTML5

*         Big data and technologies focused on scalability

*         In-depth knowledge of the state of the art of algorithms and methods related to data retrieving, data mining, string manipulation

*         Knowledge of Linux based server environment (especially Debian-based distros)

*         Propensity to work in an international environment

*         Good relationship and communication skills

All suitably qualified candidates irrespective of gender or nationality are welcome to applyas long as the following conditions are fulfilled:

*         Applicants should be in possession of a doctoral degree (preferably) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. At the time of recruitment, the applicant should have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience (including the duration of the PhD).

*         Applicants should have good knowledge of English, both written and oral, in order to be able to submit reports in English.

*         Applicants should not have resided or performed their main activity in Italy for more than 12 months in the 3-year period immediately prior to the start date. Candidates of Italian nationality should not have resided or performed their main activity in Italy for more than 12 months in the 5-year period immediately prior to the start date.

The fellowship will be available from July 1st, 2014 on, and the position can be filled anytime from that date on (at the latest in September 2014).

Further information

*         Salary: >65,000 euros (Marie Curie rates will apply).

*         Closing date: 15 August 2014 (or earlier if the position is filled).

Project overview

The position is part of the project EXPERT (EXPloiting Empirical appRoaches to Translation), a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN), which aims to train young researchers, namely Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Experienced Researchers (ERs), to promote the research, development and use of hybrid language translation technologies.

More information on the project and its objectives can be found at the following URL:

*         http://expert-itn.eu/?q=node/3

Company overview

Translated is a language service provider that is changing the language industry by using NLP and AI technology to make translators' life easier by minimizing repetitive tasks and making customers happier by reducing traditional agency intermediation.

Translated was founded in 1999 and currently manages over 80,000 translators in 110 countries to provide translation services to more than 30,000 customers.

Translated is focused on serving large businesses, startup and web 2.0 companies that need to speed-up and automate their globalization processes.

Corporations like Google, Amazon and HP use our technologies and services in their localization processes.

Translated uses NLP and AI technology to make translators' life easier by minimizing repetitive tasks and making customers happier by reducing traditional agency intermediation.

Thanks to its innovative approach to language technology, Translated has been chosen by Google to create new services for flagship products such as YouTube and, recently,  the translation of the apps in the Google Play Store

Translated has created MyMemory<http://mymemory.translated.net/> (http://mymemory.translated.net), the world's largest translation memory, that combines machine translation with over 600 million human contributions. Translated uses MyMemory to increase the quality and speed of translation by suggesting sentences that have already been translated.

MateCat is the next big thing on which Translated is currently working on: a web-based software that pushes forward what is considered the new frontier of Computer Assisted Translation technology, that is, how to effectively and ergonomically integrate Machine Translation within the human translation workflow.

Best regards,

Dr. Natalia Konstantinova
EXPERT Network Training Coordinator
Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Research Group in Computational Linguistics
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford Street
WOLVERHAMPTON WV1 1LY
Email: n.konstantinova at wlv.ac.uk<mailto:n.konstantinova at wlv.ac.uk>
Tel: + 44 1902 322967
Fax: 01902 323 543

-- 
Scanned by iCritical.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/corpora/attachments/20140516/676d4be5/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora