Università di Pisa Dipartimento di Informatica (Department of Informatics) Italy is offering a graduate position in the field of "Statistical Machine Translation". Research Activity: the research will be conducted as part of an undergoing national research project, whose goal is to develop techniques of statistical machine translation based on syntax and to implement a translation service for Web content pertaining to the Italian culture. The research will be conducted at the Department of Informatics. A state of the art dependency parser, as well as a full linguistic processing pipeline, developed by our team will be exploited. The successful candidates will have a strong background in computer science and knowledge of statistical machine learning techniques, with emphasis on text and natural language analysis. They are expected to provide leadership on technical issues and well as to contribute to the development of object oriented applications. Skills and Experience: - A background in Computer Science with specialization in Computational Linguistics or Natural Language Processing - Excellent programming skills in C++ and Python - Expert-level understanding of statistical machine learning techniques as applied to machine translation Education: Degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Age: younger than 32 year. Duration: 26 months. Salary: gross 1600 Euro/month. Application: The official call is available at: http://www.unipi.it/ateneo/bandi/cococo/Dip.-Informatica-FIRB-Linguistica.rtf_pdfcvt.pdf Closing date for application: October 8, 2010. Facilities: The project will use a cluster of 1024 cores provided through a collaboration with Ferrari Formula 1. General information about the Department of Informatics can be found at http://www.di.unipi.it. Please address questions concerning the position toatta...@di.unipi.it.
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