Position: Postdoc Researcher, 18month contract

The Cross-Language Technologies (CLT) group of the Xerox Research Centre Europe has the mission of researching and developing the most effective methods for crossing language barriers. Targeted applications include Statistical Machine Translation, multilingual terminology extraction, Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Categorization and Clustering. The team is part of the PASCAL 2 European Network of Excellence, ensuring a strong network of academic collaboration.

We are looking for a postdoc researcher to contribute to our Statistical Machine Translation and CLIR activities in the frame of an EU funded project.

Required experience and qualifications:

• PhD in computer science, statistics or mathematics with excellent knowledge of machine translation, cross-language information retrieval or machine learning for natural language processing

• Good programming skills in C, C++, and/or Python.
• A good command of English is required, as well as open-mindedness and the will to collaborate with a team.
• Experience in machine learning is a definite plus.

To apply: Please email your CV and covering letter, with message subject "Cross-Language Technologies Researcher" to xrce-candidates and to Nicola.Cancedda at xrce.xerox.com

Inquiries can be sent to Nicola.Cancedda at xrce.xerox.com

The duration of the contract is 18 months.

Application deadline: July 30th, 2009

Starting date: September, 2009

The Xerox Research Centre Europe is a young, dynamic research organization, which aims at creating innovative document technologies to support growth in Xerox content and document management services. XRCE is part of the Xerox Innovation group made up of 800 researchers and engineers in four world-renowned research and technology centres. Our domains of research stretch from the social sciences to computing. Our expertise lies in natural language processing, data mining, pattern analysis, xml, work practice and knowledge management agents. The variety of both cultures and disciplines at XRCE makes it both an exciting and stimulating environment to work in.
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