Overview
The School of Translation and Interpreting (ISTI-Cooremans) of the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication at ULB is opening a chair in translation and artificial intelligence.
The holder of the chair is expected to take on teaching activities and will actively develop research in line with the research axes defined by the faculty’s research centres. . The position comes along with an equivalent of at least 4 years of doctoral grants, reserved for PhD candidates to be supervised by the holder of the chair.
Courses taught by the holder of the chair will focus on theoretical, professional, legal, ethical and societal aspects relating to translation and interpreting in the age neural machine translation and artificial intelligence.
In the master’s programme, he or she is expected to teach students how to create, develop and maintain terminological databases and how to train and evaluate machine translation systems.
The holder of the chair will teach students how machine translation works, in order to provide them with the skills and insights that are necessary to effectively use machine translation.
All research and teaching activities will concentrate on both theoretical and applied aspects of translation and interpreting.
Main Research Field: Language Sciences
Sub Research Field: Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Teaching and scientific objectives
The holder of the chair is expected to develop research and teach several courses at the translation and interpreting department. The holder of the chair will have to supervise master’s and PhD theses. The holder of the chair will contribute to collaborative projects, develop teaching materials and apply for internal and external research grants.
Courses included in the teaching assignment at the time of recruitment:
BA1 (core curriculum course) – Ethical and societal aspects of machine translation – 24h MA1 (core curriculum course) – Creation and use of multilingual corpora – 24h
MA 1 (obligatory course in localisation and project management module) – Training and evaluating MT systems – 24h
In total, the holder of the chair is expected to teach 120 hours per academic year. In addition to these three courses, The holder of the chair will therefore have to propose and design courses in line with their research interests, the research axes defined by the department’s research centres and the department’s study programmes.
Company:
Université libre de Bruxelles
Qualifications:
Required qualifications
PhD in Linguistics, communication science and/or translation studies or any other domain closely related to machine translation.
Required skills
– The candidate must have at least 4 years of scientific seniority at the time of recruitment. – The candidate has conducted post-doctoral research and has an excellent scientific record. – Pre- and post-doctoral international mobility experience is considered a plus.
– Core curriculum courses must be taught in French both in the bachelor’s and master’s programme. A 3-year transition period may be granted to candidates whose mastery of French does not yet reach the C2 proficiency level at the time of recruitment.
– The candidate has demonstrable expert knowledge in the abovementioned research domains and can establish links with professional translation practices.
– The candidate has experience with multilingual data processing and has a keen interest in modern languages and translation.
– The candidate must have higher education or university teaching experience and excellent pedagogical skills.
– The candidate will show initiative and be able to work as part of a team to coordinate teaching and research activities.
Language requirements:
Français : excellent
English : excellent
Educational level:
Ph. D.
