PhD Studentship in NLP (Natural Language Processing)

PhD Studentship in Natural Language Processing
Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics group, University of Geneva

Applications are invited for a PhD position in the Computational
Learning and Computational Linguistics (CLCL) group of the University
of Geneva. The successful candidate will pursue research in connection
with a project on statistical machine translation funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation, in collaboration with researchers in
Geneva's Linguistics Department and the IDIAP Research Institute.


Candidates should have a solid background in computer science or
computational linguistics. They should have excellent programming
skills as well as communication skills in English (and ideally in
French as well). Preference will be given to candidates with a strong
interest and/or experience in machine learning or statistical methods,
and in computational linguistics or natural language processing. A
strong academic record, excellent analytical skills, and a clear
aptitude for autonomous, creative research will be priority selection
criteria.

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