Barry Haddow and I have a fully funded (for UK/EU students) PhD position to work on spoken language translation in the H2020 ELITR project. The planned start date is Jan-March 2019.
The candidate will work within the Statistical Machine Translation group at the University of Edinburgh (http://www.statmt.org/ued/ <http://www.statmt.org/ued/),> ) which has a long track record in statistical and neural MT. It is a supportive group which has many alumni who have moved on to interesting positions in research and industry. We also have access to large GPU clusters and to a regular programme of seminars and workshops with internationally recognised experts. You should have the following : - A degree (or near completion) in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related discipline, - Background in machine learning and natural language processing, - Strong programming skills We will start selecting candidates in December 2018, so we recommend applying by 30/11/2018. Please contact Barry Haddow (bhaddow at inf.ed.ac.uk) or Rico Sennrich (rico.sennrich at inf.ed.ac.uk) for more information.
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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