27 November: fyi -- research, Germany
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Job opening announcement No. 52-09/HU
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH),
with sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbr?cken, 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 Saarbr?cken 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
lt-jobs@dfki.de, 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, hans.uszkoreit@dfki.de -- or --
Dr. Andreas Eisele, andreas.eisele@dfki.de, Tel. +49-681-302-5285
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Dr. Andreas Eisele, Senior Researcher
DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, eisele@dfki.de
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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