24.3086, Support: Computational Linguistics/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-24-3086. Tue Jul 30 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.3086, Support: Computational Linguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:11:35
From: Martin Volk [volk at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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 Institution/Organization: University of Zurich 
Department: Institute of Computational Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.cl.uzh.ch 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
Machine Translation 
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      French (fra) 
                      German (deu) 
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

The Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich is looking for a PhD student to work in the project 'MODERN: Modeling Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation'. MODERN is a Sinergia project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and coordinated by Idiap in Martigny (Switzerland). The project aims at advancing the state of art in inter-sentential machine translation. Funding is available for a period of three years.

Qualifications:
- Master or Diploma in computational linguistics or related field
- Experience in developing statistical machine translation systems
- Strong programming skills
- Languages: good English and German skills (other languages are a plus)

Tasks:
- Collecting and annotating corpora for discourse-aware MT
- Building ontologies as semantic models for MT
- Implementing and evaluating caching models for rule based and statistical MT

Benefits:
- Salary according to the Swiss National Science Foundation rates (from 42,000 CHF (1st year) to 48,000 CHF (3rd year))
- Support for conference and summer school attendance
- Small and enthusiastic team
- Collaboration with Idiap in Martigny
- High standard of living in one of the most attractive European cities: Zurich (with a large lake and the Alps nearby)

Proposed starting date: 
As soon as possible

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

Application Deadline: 31-August-2013 

Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2013 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Martin Volk 
University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics 
Binzmühlestrasse 32 
Zurich 8050 
Switzerland 
	
Web Address for Applications: http://www.cl.uzh.ch 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Martin Volk 
volk at cl.uzh.ch



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