PhD studentship on machine translation at the University of Cambridge

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge:
Deadline for applications: 30 April, 2017
Start date: 1 October, 2017
Duration: 3 years
Details of how to apply: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13242/
The position will be part of the LEXICAL (Lexical Acquisition across Languages) project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of a Consolidator Grant awarded to Anna Korhonen. The aim of the project is to develop a novel computational framework for learning and transferring lexical information across languages without the need for parallel resources. The project covers a variety of typologically diverse languages and language domains and will demonstrate the usefulness for NLP applications such as machine translation.
The PhD studentship is for 3 years starting from 1 October, 2017. The successful applicant will have a good Master's degree (equivalent of first-class distinction) in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related discipline, completed by 30 September 2017. He/she will have strong programming skills and previous experience in NLP and/or machine learning. Previous experience with deep learning and/or joint learning and inference may be considered an advantage. The grant covers university fees and maintenance for the period of three years. Both UK/EU and overseas candidates are encouraged to apply.
The PhD student will work with Anna Korhonen as part of the ERC project team. They will be members of the vibrant and highly research-active Language Technology Lab (http://ltl.mml.cam.ac.uk) at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the large community of NLP researchers in the University of Cambridge.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Anna Korhonen (alk23-AT-cam.ac.uk).