21.1786, Jobs: English/German/French/Machine Translation:Researcher, U of Zurich

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Subject: 21.1786, Jobs: English/German/French/Machine Translation:Researcher, U of Zurich

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Date: 12-Apr-2010
From: Martin Volk < volk at cl.uzh.ch >
Subject: English; German; French; Machine Translation: Researcher - PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 

	
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:55:55
From: Martin Volk [volk at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: English; German; French; Machine Translation: Researcher - PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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University or Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: Computational Linguistics
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Web Address: http://www.cl.uzh.ch/

Job Rank: Researcher  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Machine Translation

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 
                      German, Standard (deu) 

Description:

The Machine Translation research group at the Institute of Computational
Linguistics of the University of Zurich is looking for a PhD student to
work in the project 'Domain-specific Statistical Machine Translation'. The
project aims at building machine translation systems for alpine texts (such
as mountaineering reports) between English, French and German.

Qualifications: 
- Master or Diploma in Computational Linguistics or related field
- Languages: good English skills, basic skills in German and French
- Good programming skills
- Experience in Statistical Machine Translation is a plus

Tasks:
- Corpus preparation of our alpine text collection from the British and
Swiss Alpine Clubs
- Named-entity recognition and term extraction over the alpine text collection
- Exploitation of parallel and comparable parts of the corpus
- Experiments in Statistical Machine Translation

Benefits:
- Salary according to the Swiss National Science Foundation rules (40,000
CHF - 46,000 CHF annually)
- Additional earnings through teaching assignments possible
- Support for conference and summer school attendance
- Small and enthusiastic team
- High standard of living in one of the most attractive European cities: Zurich

The position can be filled immediately and has secured funding for 18
months. An extension for another 2 years is intended.
Please send your CV, your academic record and a short letter of interest to
Prof. Dr. Martin Volk (volk at cl.uzh.ch)


Application Deadline: 30-Apr-2010 
	  
Email Address for Applications: volk at cl.uzh.ch 
Contact Information:
	Martin Volk 
	Email: volk at cl.uzh.ch 
	Phone: 0041446354317 



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