Dear MTers,
We are looking for a PhD student to work at the University of Zurich
on a project on discourse-level SMT. The project ("MODERN: Modeling
Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation") is
funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and aims at advancing
the state of art in inter-sentential machine translation. Funding is
available for a period of three years, enough to write a thesis on
this topic (so says the Swiss National Science Foundation, you're to
prove them right).
If you are that student, what's in it for you:
- Pretty Alps to conquer and lakes to swim near by
- Small and enthusiastic team, international collaboration
- Swiss National Science Foundation salary rates (42,000 CHF 1st year
-- 48,000 CHF 3rd year)
- Conference and summer school attendance support
What we expect of you is:
- Master's or Diploma in computational linguistics/computer
science/related field
- Strong technical and programming skills
- Experience in working on statistical machine translation systems
- Languages: good English and preferably also German skills
Potential tasks:
- Developing and testing new SMT approaches, supporting
inter-sentential dependencies
- Implementing and evaluating caching models for statistical and maybe
rule-based MT
- Collecting and annotating corpora for discourse-aware MT
- Building ontologies as semantic models for MT
If you are not that student but know him/her, we (and probably he/she)
will be grateful if you forward this info.
More info on the Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of
Zurich: http://www.cl.uzh.ch/
Applications (including a CV and academic record) should be sent to:
Prof. Martin Volk ([email protected])
Application Deadline: 31 August 2013
Proposed starting date: as soon as possible
Best regards,
Mark Fishel, Martin Volk
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