I am delighted to announce officially that we have recently had a major 5-year Euro 16.8 million project funded by Science Foundation Ireland. The project is entitled “Next Generation Localisation” and involves a consortium of leading Irish Universities (DCU, TCD, UCD and UL) and Industry Partners. Localisation is the industrial-scale adaptation of digital content to domain, culture and language. See:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/newsitems/sem1_0708/josef/index.html One of the major research strands in the project is Machine Translation (others include Speech Processing, MT-Speech Integration, Digital Content Management, Localisation, and Systems Framework). Accordingly, I am pleased to announce _six_ post-doctoral positions and _ten_ PhD positions, the successful applicants for which will all be based in DCU, thus extending considerably our active team of researchers: http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/mt/ The main areas that we intend to cover include: - Syntax-Driven Statistical Machine Translation - Hybrid Statistical & Example-Based Machine Translation - Data-Oriented Machine Translation - Sub-sentential Alignment for Machine Translation - Probabilistic Transfer-Based Machine Translation - Evaluation in Machine Translation - Controlled Language & Machine Translation - Human Factors in Machine Translation We anticipate that all positions will be filled in the next 6 months or so, but hope that some people will be on the ground much sooner than that, as the project starts officially tomorrow, Dec 1st! Post-doctoral positions are typically for 3 years, and funded in the range of Euro 38K-44K. PhD positions are typically for 4 years, and students will receive between 16K--18K p.a., have their fees paid, a PC provided together with a generous travel award. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in statistical modelling, natural language processing and machine translation. In addition, we would expect that post-doctoral applicants would have a track record of publications in the area. To apply, please send a CV and contact details of three referees by 2nd January 2008 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in .pdf format, indicating also your preferred starting date, if successful. Please use this email address also for informal inquiries. We look forward to welcoming you to our growing team on this exciting new project. Prof. Andy Way National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) School of Computing Dublin City University Dublin 9, Ireland. _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
