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POST-DOC OPENING IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING & STATISTICAL MACHINE
TRANSLATION AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
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The "Spoken Language Processing" team at LIMSI-CNRS (30 km south of
Paris) seeks immediately one qualified postdoctoral researcher in the
field of Statistical Machine Translation.

Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Statistical Methods for Machine Translation

Description:

Announcing opening in the area of Data-Driven Machine Translation at the
LIMSI/CNRS in Spoken Language Processing Group in Orsay, France.

The task of the post-doc candidate will be to devise, implement and
evaluate discriminative learning models for sub-components of
statistical machine translation systems. We are primarily interested
with discriminative learning models for word alignement and for word
reordering. These models will be used to improve LIMSI's Machine
Translation tools.

The candidates are expected to have an Engineering BSc/Msc degree and
a PhD in Computer Science. Excellent knowledge of Example-Based or
Statistical approaches to Speech or Natural Language Processing. The
successful candidate will be a strong programmer, have a track record
in machine learning, and have a good publication record in this
field. Experience with statistical machine translation systems and/or
participation in large-scale open evaluations (NIST, IWSLT etc.) would
be a distinct advantage.

The minimum remuneration will be EUR 1900 (net income) per month. The
position are open from 15th Jan 2009. A contract of one year will be
awarded.

Interested candidates should send a short letter of motivation, along
with their CV (in .pdf format, only) to the email address given below
as soon as possible and by Feb 15th 30th at the latest. Questions or
other clarification should be emailed to the same address.

Application Deadline: 15-Feb-2009 (Open until filled)

Email Address for Applications: yvon at limsi dot fr

Contact Information: 

Prof. Francois Yvon Phone: +331-69858066
http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/yvon/