Applications are invited for two 3-year Early Stage Researcher PhD
positions in corpus-based approaches to machine translation. The
positions have been awarded as part of the new EU FP7 Marie-Curie
Initial raining Network EXPERT
(http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/EXPERT/), concerned with the
exploitation of empirical approaches to machine translation, including
statistical machine translation and example-based machine translation.
The EXPERT project puts together researchers from six European
universities (The University of Sheffield, Universidad de Malaga,
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Dublin City University, Universiteit van
Amesterdam, and University of Wolverhampton) and five translation
services and technology providers (Pangeanic, Hermes and Translated,
Celer Soluciones and WordFast).
The two projects allocated to the University of Sheffield are (i)
learning from human feedback, which is concerned about methods to
collect and incorporate human feedback into translation systems to
improve the quality of translations; and (ii) estimating the quality
and confidence of corpus-based approaches to machine translation and
the quality of translated texts.
The work in both projects will focus on statistical and machine
learning techniques to address the problems, but it will also involve
aspects of human translation studies, based on a strong interaction
with some of the partners in EXPERT. The research will be conducted as
part of the Natural Language Processing research group in Sheffield,
with opportunities for collaborative work with several of the leading
universities and industrial partners in EXPERT, and with the
expectation of a 6-month secondment to 2-3 partners in this project.
Further information about the research group can be found at:
http://nlp.dcs.shef.ac.uk.
The successful individual will be employed as a salaried researcher at
the University of Sheffield, while studying towards his/her PhD.
Salary rates and additional mobility and training allowances are as
per the Marie Curie programme (see Annex 3 of this document
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/download?docId=31562,
page 69). For employment in the UK, the reference figure for gross
salary is 51,062 euros/year, plus additional contribution towards
mobility and training.
Please check Section III.3 of the following link for further
information on the Marie Curie scheme regarding eligibility criteria:
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/fp7-mga-annex3intramulti_en.pdf.
In particular, candidates cannot have lived in the UK for more than 12
months in the 3 years immediately prior to their appointment.
Applicants should hold a good honours degree in a relevant field of
study (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics) and have
experience in natural language processing, machine translation or
related area. They should also have a solid background in
mathematics/statistics and excellent programming skills (C/C++, Java,
Python/Perl, etc.). See the job specification for more details on the
expected profile:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~lucia/resources/EXPERT_Marie_Curie_Early_Stage_Researcher.pdf
The post is fixed term for three years with a start date of January
2013 or soon after.
Closing Date: 10th December 2012
For applications:http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs, Search and apply for
jobs, job reference number: UOS005598
In addition to submitting applications to the University of Sheffield,
candidates should apply via the website provided by project
coordinator:http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/EXPERT/.
For informal enquiries about this job and department, contact: Dr
Lucia Specia [log in to unmask]
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Leon R A Derczynski
NLP Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello
Sheffield S1 4DP, UK
+45 5157 4948
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/
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