18 February: fyi -- phd positions, Dublin
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22 PhD Posts - Centre for Next Generation Localisation Laboratories
PhD Studentships - 22 Posts
Post Status: 3 year PhD Studentships
Department: Centre for Next Generation Localisation Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
Benefits: Payment of tax free stipend and academic fees
Closing date for applications: 28th February 2013
General enquires concerning these posts can be addressed to
Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie
Summary:
The Centre for Next Generation Localisation seeks to revolutionise the
way people interact with content, systems and each other to achieve
unprecedented levels of content access, process efficiency and user
empowerment. Breakthroughs in the creation, processing, unification
and integration of multilingual, multi-modal and multimedia content
are needed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile and
multilingual society across global markets. CNGL will enable content
to be created, discovered, translated and personalised, so as to
efficiently and effectively deliver natural and engaging web-mediated
interactions between users, organisations and communities regardless
of language, device and preferences of the user.
CNGL is internationally renown for its strong, strategic mix of
leading researchers in language, adaptive content, interaction and
knowledge engineering technologies and its tight engagement with
innovation-driven companies that work with content at a global
level. CNGL has recently received further multi-million funding from
Science Foundation Ireland. As a result Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
is now offering 22 new PhD studentships in the areas of:
Text Analytics for managing large scale multilingual corpora.
Content-aware multilingual Search and Discovery technologies
Adaptive context-aware search
Intelligent slicing and adaptation of content
Social-aware, affective content adaptation
Constructing affective dialogue solutions
Interoperability and analytics for intelligent content processing chains
Requirements:
The successful candidate will have an excellent academic record (first
class or II.1 primary degree or a postgraduate qualification,
e.g. M.Sc.) in Computer Science, or a related discipline. They will be
highly motivated, with strong written and oral communication skills
and a demonstrated proficiency in software development. They must be
eager to work in and learn from multi-disciplinary and
multi-organisation teams. They should have English language
certification if English is not their first language, the requirement
being: IELTS: 7.0+, TOEFL iBT: 100+, TOEFL pBT: 600+, CEF: C1+, or
equivalent.
Application Procedure:
For further information and informal contact, please refer to the PhD
topic details. Please directly contact the relevant supervisor,
depending upon the position you're interested in, via email including:
A targeted cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for a position
A complete CV
Please also copy Dominic Jones - Dominic.Jones@scss.tcd.ie
Applicants may then be invited to apply via the TCD graduate studies admission system.
Furthur Information:
Centre for Next Generation Localisation
CNGL is a €50M Academia-Industry partnership based in Ireland. It is
unique internationally in addressing the integrated research and
development of novel content, knowledge and language processing
technologies for the global, multi-lingual web content and services
supply chain. Â It is made up of over 100 researchers in labs
integrated across Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin City University
(DCU), University College Dublin (UCD), University of Limerick (UL),
as well as ten industrial partners, including SMEs, NGOs and
multinationals such as Microsoft, Symantec, Intel and Welocalize. In
addition to central funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI),
CNGL has a wide portfolio of European FP7 projects and commercial
projects. It therefore offers unique opportunities for international
and industrial research collaboration at the highest level in areas of
language technology, multi-lingual web and adaptive, personalised
content. CNGL provides a world class collaborative research and
innovation environment. It provides: world-class PhD supervision by
integrated teams of leading academics; an experienced and supportive
lab community of postdoctoral researchers and research programmers;
excellent collaboration and computing facilities; wide ranging skills
training opportunities; a dedicated management and administration team
and an active commercialisation development pipeline.
Trinity College Dublin
Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is the oldest university in
Ireland and one of the older universities of Western Europe. On
today's campus, state-of-the-art libraries, laboratories and IT
facilities, stand alongside historic buildings on a city-centre
47-acre campus. Based in the heart of Dublin, TCD offers an
exceptional working and social environment that attracts students and
researchers from around the world. TCD's research impact is currently
ranked 44th in the World by the Times Higher Education Ranking of
World Universities and 10th in Europe by the Leiden University Ranking
of World Universities based on research performance. As Ireland's
premier university, the pursuit of excellence through research and
scholarship is at the core of a Trinity education. TCD has an
outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a
track record in winning research funding which is among the best in
the country.
Equal Opportunities Policy
Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer and is
committed to the employment policies, procedures and practices which
do not discriminate on grounds such as gender, marital status, family
status, age, disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation or
membership of the travelling community. See also:
https://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/Research2012.pdf
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