We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled PhD candidate to join our project LEXICAL: Lexical Acquisition across Languages. The successful applicant will be part of a team developing a novel computational framework for learning and transferring lexical information across languages without parallel resources.
Key Qualifications:
To be considered for this opportunity, the applicant must have a good Master's degree (first-class distinction) in a relevant field such as computational linguistics, AI, computer science or a related area. Strong programming skills and previous experience in NLP and/or machine learning are essential requirements.
* Strong programming skills
* Previous experience in NLP and/or machine learning
Project Overview:
The project aims to develop a novel computational framework that can learn and transfer lexical information across languages without parallel resources. This will cover various typologically diverse languages and language domains, demonstrating its usefulness for NLP applications like machine translation.
This is a 3-year post starting from October 2015. We offer a competitive stipend and a supportive research environment.