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Postdoc position and PhD student position in statistical machine translation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Deadlines: 22 / 12 October 2012

Postdoc position in Statistical Machine Translation at ILLC

For the STW-funded project "Data-Powered Domain-Specific Translation 
Services On Demand" led by Dr Khalil Sima'an, the ILLC is looking for a 
Postdoc in Statistical Machine Translation.

The DatAptor project aims at research and development for advanced 
statistical machine translation (SMT) systems that adapt to a new domain 
automatically using algorithms for extracting and weighting suitable 
training instances in an industry-scale, multi-domain parallel corpus. The 
project addresses various challenges including statistical weighting of 
parallel data instances to better fit user-supplied example documents, SMT 
adaptation by-example to new domains, and extensions of hierarchical and 
syntactic SMT systems.

The application deadline is 22 October 2012. Vacancy number: W12-186. For 
more information, see 
http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/F8913E68-1A0B-45CF-B895DAFE7AF49D1A 
or contact Dr Khalil Sima'an at k.simaan@uva.nl.

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PhD student position in Statistical Machine Translation at ILLC

For the STW-funded project "Data-Powered Domain-Specific Translation 
Services On Demand" led by Dr Khalil Sima'an, the ILLC is looking for a 
PhD student in Hierarchical Statistical Machine Translation.

The DatAptor project aims at research and development for advanced 
statistical machine translation (SMT) systems that adapt to a new domain 
automatically using algorithms for extracting and weighting suitable 
training instances in an industry-scale, multi-domain parallel corpus. The 
project addresses various challenges including statistical weighting of 
parallel data instances to better fit user-supplied example documents, SMT 
adaptation by-example to new domains, and extensions of hierarchical and 
syntactic SMT systems. The PhD student is expected to work among others on 
the latter topic, i.e., hierarchical (and syntax-enriched) SMT systems.

The closing date for application is 12 October 2012. Vacancy number: 
W12-185. For more information, see 
http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/0244E201-B788-4CEF-ADA48B56FBDF99E3 
or contact Dr Khalil Sima'an at k.simaan@uva.nl.