PhD position in a UNL-related project

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The Center for Advanced Modeling Science (CADMOS) has opened a PhD position in high-performance computing (HPC) applied to natural language processing at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The selected candidate is expected to work in collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the UNDL Foundation in designing and implementing efficient HPC methods for extracting and processing multilingual resources for machine translation, information retrieval and knowledge representation to be used in the UNL framework.

The ideal candidate should have a master degree in Computer Science (or equivalent); familiarity with distributed and parallel computing; good programming skills in Java; good knowledge of English (written and spoken); interest in algorithms and statistical natural language processing; and ability to meet deadlines and to work in a collaborative environment. Proficiency in French will be a plus.

Candidates should send the CV and a motivation letter to phd@undlfoundation.org until September 1st. The selected candidate is expected to start working from October 1st. The salary will be in accordance with the rules of the University of Geneva for academic personnel.

Contact Person
Bastien Chopard
Computer Science Department
University of Geneva