[Apologies for cross-posting]
Job opening announcement No. 52-09/HU
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), with
sites in
Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, and Berlin is the leading German
research
institute in the field of innovative software technology.
DFKI's Language Technology Lab is looking for several energetic
researchers/senior
researchers to strengthen its team in the area of machine translation,
with a focus on
hybrid methods combining linguistic and statistical approaches.
Depending on the
candidate's profile, the position may be located in Saarbrücken or Berlin.
The position will be in the ongoing EU project EuroMatrix Plus (see
www.euromatrixplus.eu for details) or in related research projects
currently under
preparation. The contract can start in the early 2010 (pending approval
of funding) and
will be limited to the duration of the respective project, which may be
up to three years.
Extension of the contract will depend on the acquisition of follow-up
funding.
Responsibilities include application-oriented research on hybrid MT, MT
evaluation,
community-based translation environments, learning from multi-parallel
and comparable
corpora, and related topics, the supervision of student assistants and
master's theses,
as well as assistance in the conception and acquisition of new research
projects.
Required experience and qualifications:
* PhD or MSc/Diploma in computer science or computational
linguistics with excellent knowledge of machine translation (MT) and/or
machine learning for natural language processing.
* Good programming skills in C, C++, and/or Python, as well as the
ability to write scientific papers and technical documents.
* Open-mindedness and the will to collaborate closely within a
distributed, multidisciplinary team and to engage in EU-wide collaborations.
* Experience with both statistical and grammar-based approaches to
MT would be highly desirable.
* Good oral and written command of English is required; familiarity
with additional EU languages would be a strong plus.
Please send your electronic application (preferably in PDF format) to
[email protected],
referring to the job opening number at your earliest convenience, but
not later than
January 15, 2010. A meaningful application should include a cover
letter, a CV with a
photograph, a brief summary of research interests, a statement of
interest in the
position offered, and contact information for three references.
Contact for questions:
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit, [email protected] -- or --
Dr. Andreas Eisele, [email protected], Tel. +49-681-302-5285
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Dr. Andreas Eisele, Senior Researcher
DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, [email protected]
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 tel: +49-681-302-5285
D-66123 Saarbruecken fax: +49-681-302-5338
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Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster
(Vors.), Dr. Walter Olthoff; Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes; Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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