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Researchers in Speech, Text and Multimodal Machine Translation @ DFKI
Saarbrücken, Germany
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The MT group at MLT@DFKI Saarbrücken is looking for
senior researchers/researchers/junior researchers
in speech, text and multimodal machine translation using deep learning.
3 year contracts. Possibility of extension. Ideal starting dates around
June/July 2021.
Key responsibilities:
- Research and development in speech, text and multimodal MT
- Scientific publications
- Co-supervision of BSc/MSc students and research assistants
- Possibility of teaching at Saarland University (UdS)
- Senior: PhD co-supervision
- Senior: Project/grant acquisition and management
Qualifications senior researchers/researchers:
- PhD in NLP/Speech/MT/ML/CS or related
- strong scientific and publication track record in
speech/text/multimodal-NLP/MT
Qualifications junior researchers:
- MSc in CS/NLP/Speech/ML/MT or related (possibility to do a PhD at
DFKI/UdS)
All:
- Strong background in machine learning and deep learning
- Strong problem solving and programming skills
- Strong communication skills in written and spoken English (German an
asset, but not a requirement)
Working environment: the post are in the “Multilinguality and Language
Technology” MLT Lab at DFKI (the German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence https://www.dfki.de/en/web/) in Saarbrücken, Germany. MLT
is led by Prof. Josef van Genabith. MLT is a highly international team
and does basic and applied research.
Application: a short cover letter indicating which level (senior /
researcher / junior) you apply for, a CV, a brief summary of research
interests, and contact information for three references. Please submit
your application by Friday April 23rd, 2021 as PDF to Prof. Josef van
Genabith ([email protected]) indicating your earliest possible
start date. Positions remain open until filled.
Selected MT@MLT group publications 2020/21: Xu et al. Probing Word
Translation in the Transformer and Trading Decoder for Encoder Layers.
NAACL-HLT 2021. Chowdhury et al. Understanding Translationese in
Multi-View Embedding Spaces. COLING 2020. Pal et al. The Transference
Architecture for Automatic Post-Editing. COLING 2020. Ruiter et al.
Self-Induced Curriculum Learning in Self-Supervised Neural Machine
Translation. EMNLP-2020. Zhang et al. Translation Quality Estimation by
Jointly Learning to Score and Rank. EMNLP 2020. Xu et al. Dynamically
Adjusting Transformer Batch Size by Monitoring Gradient Direction
Change. ACL 2020. Xu et al. Learning Source Phrase Representations for
Neural Machine Translation. ACL 2020. Xu et al. Lipschitz Constrained
Parameter Initialization for Deep Transformers. ACL 2020. Herbig et al.
MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface for Post-Editing Machine Translation. ACL
2020. Herbig et al. MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface using Handwriting,
Touch Reordering and Speech Commands for Post-Editing Machine
Translation. ACL 2020. Alabi et al. Massive vs. Curated Embeddings for
Low-Resourced Languages: the Case of Yorùbá and Twi. LREC 2020.
Costa-jussàet al. Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations
for Natural Language Processing: A Brief Introduction. In: Computational
Linguistics (CL) Special Issue: Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic
Representations for Natural Language Processing. Xu et al. Efficient
Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation with Layer-Wise Weighting and
Input-Aware Gating. IJCAI 2020
DFKI is one of the leading AI centers worldwide, with several sites in
Germany. DFKI Saarbrücken is part of the Saarland University (UdS)
Informatics Campus. UdS has exceptionally strong CS and CL schools and,
in addition to DFKI, a Max Plank Institute for Informatics, a Max Plank
Institute for Software Systems, the Center for Bioinformatics, and the
CISPA Helmholz Center for Information Security.
Geographic environment: Saarbrücken (http://www.saarbruecken.de/en) is
the capital of Saarland, one of the Federal States in Germany, located
right in the heart of Europe and a cultural center in the border region
of Germany, France and Luxembourg. Frankfurt and Paris are less than 2
hours by train. Living cost is moderate in comparison with other cities
in Germany and Europe.
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