The School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and the
School of Computing at Dublin City University are currently looking for postgraduate
researchers to work on a project in the area of data-driven machine translation
for audio-visual applications. Successful applicants will be expected to
enrol for, and will be supported in the completion of, a research degree
(Masters or Doctorate).

Researcher 1 will have:
*        an honours Bachelors degree in translation studies, language, linguistics,
computational linguistics, or other relevant area
*        knowledge of German
*        familiarity with computer-aided translation and alignment techniques
*        excellent communication skills
and preferably
*        knowledge of screen translation 
*        excellent corpus-analysis skills

Researcher 2 will have:
*        an honours Bachelors degree in translation studies, language, linguistics,
computational linguistics, or other relevant area
*        knowledge of Japanese
*        familiarity with computer-aided translation and alignment techniques
*        excellent communication skills
and preferably
*        knowledge of screen translation
*        excellent corpus-analysis skills

Researcher 3 will have:
*        an honours Bachelors degree in computational linguistics, computer science,
or other relevant area
*        excellent communication skills
and preferably
*        experience in implementing Example-based Machine Translation Systems 
*        knowledge of automatic evaluation metrics for Machine Translation


Successful applicants will be registered for a Masters or Doctoral degree
by research at Dublin City University and will receive a stipend to
the value of 19,000 euro (inc. fees and travel allowance) in the first
year (to be reviewed at the end of the first year). 

Applicants should send their CVs and letter of motivation to
Rodney Lafferty (rodney.lafferty@dcu.ie).

Intending applicants are welcome to contact Dr. Minako O'Hagan
(minako.ohagan@dcu.ie), Dr. Dorothy Kenny (dorothy.kenny@dcu.ie) or
Dr. Andy Way (away@computing.dcu.ie) to discuss their applications.

Closing Date for Applications:
9th September 2005