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The ADAPT Centre are offering a funded 2-year Research Masters position in
Irish Natural Language Processing, with a specific focus on User Generated
Content (online).

Fees are covered for 2 years, along with a stipend of EUR16k.

Further details on the position and details on applicant are here:
https://www.adaptcentre.ie/about/jobs/research-masters-studentship-in-irish-nlp-for-ugc

*Deadline is 29th August, 2018*.


*Research Topic*

User-Generated Content (UGC) describes content that has been created online
without having gone through a review process for quality, grammatical
correctness, clear structure, etc. UGC text is usually

found on online forums, social media platforms, and blogging platforms. As
the amount of online data increases, the demand for tools to process and
interpret this data also increases. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools
are used to facilitate the processing of large textual data. However, when
it comes to UGC, standard tools and the approaches to developing them need
to be tailored to cater for such `noisy’ text.

The Irish language has seen a resurgence of use over the past several
years, and this is particularly evident online. However, as this digital
content grows, it is difficult at a glance (and without the assistance of
technology) to see exactly how Irish language use is evolving in both
linguistic and sociolinguistic terms.

This research will focus on the application of current state-of-the-art
techniques to assess how we can include existing linguistic resources into
data-driven (statistical based) models for processing UGC in a
resource-scarce language scenario. This position provides the opportunity
to work in a team of inter- disciplinary Irish NLP researchers as part of a
combined effort to address the lack of linguistic tools and resources
currently available to Irish language processing.



*This project is funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the
Gaeltacht under the GaelTech project at the ADAPT Centre in DCU.*



--
*Dr Teresa Lynn* | Research Fellow
ADAPT Centre
School of Computing p: +353 (0) 1 700 6721
Dublin City University m: +353 (0) 87 9052989
Dublin 9 e: teresa.lynn@adaptcentre.ie
Ireland www.adaptcentre.ie





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