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POST-DOC OPENING
IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
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The "Spoken Language Processing" team at LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (25 km
south of Paris) is seeking qualified postdoctoral researchers in the
field of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT).

The main task of the candidate will be to design, implement and
evaluate innovative models and associated training and inference
procedures for components of statistical machine translation
systems. These models will be used to improve LIMSI's machine
translation toolbox. Other areas in which we have a strong interest
are model adaptation, confidence measures and automatic evaluation
metrics.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic research team working on
various aspects of SMT.  See http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt
for information regarding our activities.

Candidates are expected to hold an Engineering BSc/Msc degree and a
PhD in Computer Science. Knowledge of statistical or example-based
approaches for Speech or Natural Language Processing is required; the
candidate is also expected to have strong programmation skills, to be
familiar with statistical machine learning techniques, and have a good
publication record in the field. Experience with statistical machine
translation systems and/or participation in large-scale open
evaluations (NIST, IWSLT etc.) will be a strong advantage.

The minimum remuneration will be EUR 2000 (net income) per month. A
contract of one year will be awarded.

Interested candidates should send a short cover letter stating
motivation and interests, along with their CV (in .pdf format, only)
to the email address given below as soon as possible and by dec 31th
2012 at the latest. Questions or other clarification should be
directed to the same address.

Application Deadline: 31-dec-2011 [the position(s) will remain open
until filled]

Email Address for Applications: yvon at limsi dot fr

Contact Information: 

F. Yvon 

Phone: +331-69858066