Research Associate - Cambridge

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Inserito il 16/06/2015

A three-year position exists for a Research Associate to work on the project LEXICAL: Lexical Acquisition across Languages. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of a Consolidator Grant awarded to Anna Korhonen. The aim is to develop a novel computational framework for learning and transferring lexical information across languages without the need for parallel resources. The project will cover a variety of typologically diverse languages and language domains and will demonstrate the usefulness for NLP applications such as machine translation.

The successful applicant will have completed a Ph.D. degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or a related discipline and will be able to demonstrate an excellent track record of independent research and strong publications. Essential skills include: excellent programming skills, statistical natural language processing techniques, machine learning, as well as proven collaborative/communication/networking skills. Previous experience with joint learning and inference may be considered an advantage.

The RA will work with Anna Korhonen as part of the ERC project team. He/she will be a member of the vibrant and highly research-active Language Technology Lab  (http://ltl.mml.cam.ac.uk http://ltl.mml.cam.ac.uk/ ) and the large community of NLP researchers in the University of Cambridge.

The post is for 3 years starting from 1 September, 2015.

Details of how to apply can be found at:
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7136/

Deadline for applications is 30 June, 2015.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Anna Korhonen (alk23 at cam.ac.uk<http://cam.ac.uk/>).


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