Connectionists: Internship offer - Naver Labs Europe : Globally-driven Training Techniques for Neural Machine Translation

[Marc Dymetman]

http://www.europe.naverlabs.com/NAVER-LABS-Europe/Internships

 

The NLP (Natural Language Processing) area of NLE (NAVER LABS Europe,
Grenoble; previously XRCE: Xerox Research Centre Europe) is opening a
research internship with the goal of developing training techniques for
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) going beyond traditional perplexity
minimization approaches typical of most NMT systems.

The intern will explore and implement techniques that are able to globally
assess system translations and to use their observations to improve the
parameters of the underlying neural models. Possible approaches towards this
goal may involve combinations of Prior Features, GANs, and Reinforcement
Learning.

The project will be conducted inside the Neural Machine Translation research
activity at NLE, in relation with a business team responsible for a
translation application (smartphones, computers) which already has a large
userbase in East Asia.

The successful candidate should be enrolled in a graduate program, at the
Master or (preferably) PhD level, with a focus on Deep Learning, NLP, and
(ideally) Neural Machine Translation.

Strong programming skills and familiarity with one of the major current deep
learning toolkits (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, .)  are a requirement.

Publication of results in major conferences/journals will be strongly
encouraged.

Start Date: around January 2018

Duration:  4-5 months

To apply, please send a mail and CV to Ioan Calapodescu
<mailto:ioan.calapodescu at naverlabs.com>  and Marc Dymetman
<mailto:marc.dymetman at naverlabs.com>  (see internship page)

 

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