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[CfA] PCT Fellowship Program for Graduate Students – WIPO

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Call for Applications: PCT Fellowship Program for Graduate Students January 10, 2017 WIPO’s PCT Translation Division organizes a Fellowship Program for assistant terminologists, translators, and technical specialists, with the aim of providing on-the-job experience at an international organization. WIPO is now accepting applications for the 2017 edition of the Program. There are three types of Fellowship position: Terminology fellows create terminology entries in the PCT Termbase for subsequent publication in WIPO Pearl after being validated. Translation fellows are trained in the translation of patent abstracts and patent examination documents. Technical specialist…

[JOB] PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing, Universitaet Potsdam, Germany

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Job opening: PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing, Universitaet Potsdam, Germany The Applied Computational Linguistics group (Discourse Research Lab, Prof. Stede) invites applications for a PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing.  In contrast to previous efforts using relatively shallow features, this project emphasizes the role of deeper knowledge on the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of connectives for improved discourse parsing. The primary target language is German. The project (“Anaphoricity in Connectives”) is funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the duration is 3 years. Payment for this position is in line with…