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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Lucia Specia <[email protected]> wrote: > Applications are invited for two 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://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/EXPERT/), 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 the University of Sheffield are (i) learning > from human feedback, which is concerned about methods to collect and > incorporate human feedback into translation systems to improve the quality > of translations; and (ii) estimating the quality and confidence of > corpus-based approaches to machine translation and the quality of > translated texts. > > The work in both projects will focus on statistical and machine learning > techniques to address the problems, but it will also involve aspects of > human translation studies, based on a strong interaction with some of the > partners in EXPERT. The research will be conducted as part of the Natural > Language Processing research group in Sheffield, 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. Further information about the research group can > be found at: http://nlp.dcs.shef.ac.uk > > The successful individual will be employed as a salaried researcher at the > University of Sheffield, while studying towards his/her PhD. Salary rates > and additional mobility and training allowances are as per the Marie Curie > programme (see Annex 3 of this document > http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/download?docId=31562, > page 69). For employment in the UK, the reference figure for gross *salary > is 51,062 euros/year, *plus additional contribution towards mobility and > training. > > 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 the UK for more than 12 > months in the 3 years immediately prior to their appointment. > > Applicants should hold a good honours degree in a relevant field of study > (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics) and have experience in > natural language processing, machine translation or related area. They > should also have a solid background in mathematics/statistics and excellent > programming skills (C/C++, Java, Python/Perl, etc.). See the job > specification for more details on the expected profile: http://www. > dcs.shef.ac.uk/~lucia/resources/EXPERT_Marie_Curie_Early_Stage_Researcher.pdf > > The post is fixed term for three years with a start date of January 2013 > or soon after. > > Closing Date: 10th December 2012 > > For applications: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs, Search and apply for jobs, > job reference number: *UOS005598* > In addition to submitting applications to the University of Sheffield, > candidates should apply via the website provided by project coordinator: > http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/EXPERT/. > > For informal enquiries about this job and department, contact: Dr Lucia > Specia on [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora > Corpora mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora > >
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