Sujet de these: Two Salaried PhD Positions in Machine Translation at Dublin City University

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:20:34 +0000
From: Declan Groves <dgroves at computing.dcu.ie>
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TWO SALARIED PHD POSITIONS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION AT DUBLIN CITY
UNIVERSITY - Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT
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Applications are invited for two salaried 3-year Early Stage Researcher
PhD positions in corpus-based approaches to machine translation. The
positions have been awarded as part of the new EU FP7 Marie-Curie
Initial raining Network EXPERT (http://expert-itn.eu), concerned with
the exploitation of empirical approaches to machine translation,
including statistical machine translation and example-based machine
translation.

The EXPERT project puts together researchers from six European
universities (The University of Sheffield, Universidad de Malaga,
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Dublin City University, Universiteit van
Amesterdam, and University of Wolverhampton) and five translation
services and technology providers (Pangeanic, Hermes and Translated,
Celer Soluciones and WordFast).

The two projects allocated to Dublin City University are:

      (i) the investigation of how individual corpus-based translation
          approaches (TM, EBMT and SMT) can benefit from each other; and
      (ii) investigation of the ideal infra-structure for a
          computer-aided translation: a pipeline with NLP tools for
          pre/post-processing, SMT, EBMT and TM techniques which can
          form the basis of a hybrid CAT tool.

The work in both projects will focus on truly hybrid data-driven
approaches to MT, in order to ultimately help facilitate the work of
human translators. The research will be conducted as part of the MT
group at the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
(http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/mt/) and the Centre for Next Generation
Localisation (CNGL) (http://www.cngl.ie) in Dublin City University, with
opportunities for collaborative work with several of the leading
universities and industrial partners in EXPERT, and with the expectation
of a 6-month secondment to 2-3 partners in this project. The team’s
location at DCU, just minutes from Dublin city centre, offers a
conducive environment to research, collaboration and innovation with a
wealth of amenities on campus, including restaurants, the
state-of-the-art University Sports Complex and swimming pool and the
Helix, one of Ireland’s most impressive arts venues with three separate
auditoria.

SALARY DETAILS
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The successful individual will be employed as a salaried researcher at
Dublin City University, while studying towards his/her PhD. Salary rates
and additional mobility and training allowances are as per the Marie
Curie programme. For employment in the Ireland, the reference figure for
gross salary is *41,458* euros/year (before both employer and employee
contributions to tax/pension/national insurance etc. subject to the
regulations of the host country), plus additional contribution towards
mobility and training.

The post is fixed term for three years with a start date of 14 January
2013 or soon after.

REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
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Applicants should hold, at the very minimum, a primary honours degree in
a relevant field of study (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering,
Computational Linguistics, Mathematics) and should have experience in
natural language processing, machine translation or a related area.

Please check Section III.3 of the following link for further information
on the Marie Curie scheme regarding eligibility criteria:
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf. In
particular, candidates cannot have lived in Ireland for more than 12
months in the 3 years immediately prior to their appointment. More
details on eligibility can also be found on the project website
(http://expert-itn.eu)

APPLICATION DETAILS
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For further details, including details of how to apply , please see:
www4.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/graduate_research/pdfs/PhD%20opportunities%20EXPERT_DCU_Nov%202012.pdf

Closing date for applications: 21st December 2012

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