29 July: fyi -- postgraduate funding (x2), Dublin
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The School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) and
the School of Computing at Dublin City University are currently
looking for postgraduate researchers to work on a project in the area
of data-driven machine translation for audio-visual
applications. Successful applicants will be expected to enrol for, and
will be supported in the completion of, a research degree (Masters or
Doctorate).
Researcher 1 will have:
* an honours Bachelors degree in translation studies, language,
linguistics,
computational linguistics, or other relevant area
* knowledge of German
* familiarity with computer-aided translation and alignment techniques
* excellent communication skills
and preferably
* knowledge of screen translation
* excellent corpus-analysis skills
Researcher 2 will have:
* an honours Bachelors degree in translation studies, language,
linguistics,
computational linguistics, or other relevant area
* knowledge of Japanese
* familiarity with computer-aided translation and alignment techniques
* excellent communication skills
and preferably
* knowledge of screen translation
* excellent corpus-analysis skills
Researcher 3 will have:
* an honours Bachelors degree in computational linguistics, computer
science,
or other relevant area
* excellent communication skills
and preferably
* experience in implementing Example-based Machine Translation Systems
* knowledge of automatic evaluation metrics for Machine Translation
Successful applicants will be registered for a Masters or Doctoral
degree by research at Dublin City University and will receive a
stipend to the value of 19,000 euro (inc. fees and travel allowance)
in the first year (to be reviewed at the end of the first year).
Applicants should send their CVs and letter of motivation to
Rodney Lafferty (rodney.lafferty@dcu.ie).
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