The following vacancy is now open - applicants are welcome to start as soon as possible! Pangeanic is a fast growing company with a keen interest in...
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31/10/2014
*(Oct 22, 2015) The selection process has been reopened Pangeanic has open a vacancy linked to a EU Marie Curie project. We are looking for a researcher with high programming skills with the machine translation area. Applicants are welcome to start as soon as possible! Pangeanic is a fast growing company with a keen interest in machine translation developments.
Job Description Pangeanic BI-Europe (www.pangeanic.com) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher (Experienced Researcher – ER) to carry out research work on the implementation and evaluation of the new hybrid computer-aided translation technology proposed in the EXPERT project and particularly, how these can be applied to its PangeaMT platform. The ER will complement the work of a group of ESRs (Early Stage Researcher – ESR) with humanities background in the implementation and evaluation (including user aspects) of the improved prototypes proposed in
EXPERT. The contract will start
as soon as possible and has a duration until 30th Sept 2016 when the EXPERT project finishes.
Objectives
- Ensure that hybrid corpus-based approaches do not remain in the research community and get tested in real world scenarios with human users.
- Conceive a new corpus-based translation framework that will result in scientific and technological advances in all corpus-based translation fields and facilitate the work of human translators.
- Produce a comprehensive literature review on corpus-based approaches to translation ad hybridisation techniques.
- Proposal of a hybrid system involving the best features of all techniques that have been explored and evaluated.
- The successful candidate is expected to interact with project partners during secondements.
- Improved Hybrid prototypes.
- Final evaluation of these prototypes.
- Scientific papers: A minimum of two scientific papers to be published at major conferences and/or relevant journals.
- Comparative evaluation showing the improvement brought by EXPERT technologies over other existing systems.
- Analysis of their suitability in industrial application scenarios.
- Demonstration of prototypes to the community in the project Business Showcase.
- Contribution to a training course held as part of the project Business Showcase event, and to hands-on training for the use of the new tools developed in EXPERT project, as well as on general post-editing of automatic translation.
- Master or doctorate in IT, computer engineering or mathematics with a strong interest in NLP and willing to help the translation industry.
- World-class programming skills.
- In-depth knowledge of the state-of-the-art algorithms and methods related to data retrieving, data mining and string manipulation.
- (Optional) Knowledge of MT systems, preferably SMT and RBMT.
- Knowledge of machine learning and typical NLP languages, such as Python and/or Perl.
- Knowledge of translation memory systems and matching & retrieval algorithms and segmentation.
- Knowledge of Linux-based server environment.
- Availability to work in an international environment.
- Good relationship and communication skills.
- All suitably qualified candidates irrespective of gender or nationality are welcome to apply as long as the following conditions are fulfilled:
- Applicants should be in possession of a doctoral degree (preferably) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. At the time of recruitment, the applicant should have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience (including the duration of the PhD).
- Applicants should have good knowledge of English, both written and oral, in order to be able to submit reports in English.
- Applicants should (preferably) have basic command of the Spanish language.
- Applicants should not have resided or performed their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3-year period immediately prior to the start date. Candidates of Spanish nationality should not have resided or performed their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 5-year period immediately prior to the start date.