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University of Edinburg — PhD Student

Title:PhD Student
Type:PhD studentship
Brief Description:SMT
Company:University of Edinburg
Location:Edinburgh, UK
Posted On:Apr 22, 2016
Application Deadline:
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I am looking for a PhD or MSc+PhD student to join the statistical
machine translation group at the University of Edinburgh, home of Moses.
The position is fully funded including stipend, tuition, travel, and
equipment for students of any nationality.

Students are invited to propose their own topic or take inspiration from
these:

- Efficiently training and applying models, including neural models.

- Systems problems, such as memory hierarchy and batch processing, with
applications to MT or NLP.

- Application of MT technologies to other areas, such as grammar and
spelling correction.

- Speech-to-speech translation.

- Neural reinforcement learning.

- Knowledge graphs and translation.

The ideal candidate has a strong computer science foundation or natural
language processing experience.

For the PhD, apply to the ILCC (Institute for Language Computing and
Cognition) then e-mail your student number to jobs@kheafield.com:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=491

For the MSc+PhD, consider which of these two programs is more relevant
to you then e-mail jobs@kheafield.com:

http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
http://pervasiveparallelism.inf.ed.ac.uk/

Kenneth Heafield
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