Open position at XRCE for a Ph.D. student in Statistical Machine Translation
The Cross-Language Technologies (CLT) group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe researches and develops effective methods for crossing language barriers. Targeted applications include Statistical Machine Translation; Multilingual Terminology Extraction; Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Categorization and Clustering. The team is part of the PASCAL 2 European Network of Excellence, ensuring a strong network of academic collaboration. XRCE is a highly innovative place and we strongly encourage publication and interaction with the scientific community. We are opening a position for a Ph.D. student in the field of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). In the context of the SMT system and tools developed by the team, and under the supervision of senior researchers, the student will propose and implement innovative solutions for improving the current state of the art in SMT research. The focus of the thesis will be one of the following themes: improved word-alignment and bi-phrase construction; advanced decoding beyond beam-search; learning efficiently from human annotations. More details will be provided upon enquiry and the precise subject will be determined in interaction with the retained candidate. Desiderata: Masters degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics or related domains. Scientific creativity. Good programming skills in C, C++, and/or Python or Perl. Good command of English. Some previous experience in statistical machine translation and/or machine learning would be a plus. To apply: Please email your CV and covering letter, with message subject "SMT PhD" to xrce-candidates as well as to Nicola.Cancedda at xrce.xerox.com and to Marc.Dymetman at xrce.xerox.com . Inquiries should be sent to Nicola.Cancedda at xrce.xerox.com and to Marc.Dymetman at xrce.xerox.com . Duration: 3 years. Application deadline: September 15th, 2009 Starting date: November, 2009 The Xerox Research Centre Europe (http://www.xrce.xerox.com) is a young, dynamic research organization, which aims at creating innovative document technologies to support growth in Xerox content and document management services. XRCE is part of the Xerox Innovation group made up of 800 researchers and engineers in four world-renowned research and technology centres. Our domains of research stretch from the social sciences to computing. Our expertise lies in natural language processing, data mining, pattern analysis, xml, work practice and knowledge management agents. The variety of both cultures and disciplines at XRCE makes it both an exciting and stimulating environment to work in. _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
