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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PhD Studentship in Statistical Machine Translation Closing date: April, 12 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/), University of Wolverhampton, invites applications for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in the area of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). The PhD candidate will be expected to carry out research in the topic of exploiting contextual information for SMT, including context-dependent modeling for word alignment, translation lexicons, language modeling, discriminative training, MT evaluation, semantic context for SMT, textual entailment for SMT, etc. He/she will contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of advanced SMT approaches taking into account richer forms of context. A successful applicant must have: • A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or closely related areas. • Strong programming skills in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Perl. • Acquaintance with machine learning and statistical modeling techniques. • Experience in computational linguistics / natural language processing, particularly the area of machine translation / statistical machine translation. Knowledge of foreign languages (besides English) is a plus. The starting date of the PhD position is September/October 2010. The studentship includes the tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of £12,000 GBP per year for three years. The application deadline is April 12, 2010. Applications should be sent by e-mail to: Dr. Lucia Specia [email protected] Applications must include: 1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of two referees that could be contacted if necessary. 2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research interests, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed by telephone in the weeks following the application deadline. The successful PhD candidate will work with the Computational Linguistics group (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/). Established by Prof. Ruslan Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major EU and UK funding bodies and commercial partners. The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was entered in Unit of Assessment "Linguistics" and Wolverhampton was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton is one of the top 6 best in the UK. Informal inquiries and electronic applications can be sent by email to: Lucia Specia Senior Lecturer Research Institute of Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
