ISHAAN: A System for Bidirectional Machine Translation Between
1) English and AssameseBodo Manipuri Nepali
2) Manipuri and Hindi
3) Assamese and Bodo’ under the Project titled ’National LanguageTranslation Mission (NLTM) :BHASHINI
About the project:
NLP technologies are the key to connecting billions of people around the globe to
access and avail the facilities, provisions, learning resources, knowledge, and benefits of the internet in multifarious domains like education, agriculture, commerce, climate, and so on. The Government of India has undertaken initiatives for building machine translation systems, cross-lingual search engines, speech processing technologies, OCR, etc. across a number of Indian languages. Machine
Translation (MT) is a critical aspect of it. Hence, the project aims to build a high-quality bidirectional Machine Translation (MT) system for translation between 1) English and Assamese, Bodo, Manipuri, Nepali 2) Hindi and Manipuri 3) Assamese and Bodo.
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
BE/BTech in CSE/Maths- and Computing/ECE/EE.
Desired qualification:
(a) Exposure in AI/ML/Deep learning,
(b) good programming skill,
(c) system level knowledge,
(d) Statistics, Probability, Data Science will be an advantage.
Job Profile:
a. Model Building
b. Familiarity with NLP tools for Indian languages (ex: should be familiar with IndicNLP library).
c. Development of pre and post-processing modules for machine translation.
d. Developing data collections, processing, model training and evaluation pipelines.
e. Conducting in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of MT systems.
Pay Details:
Level PR-A3: Salary range from Rs.25200 to Rs. 50400 + Rs.5000.00/- Out Of Campus Allowance (if applicable) p.m.
General information:
1. Above mentioned positions are purely temporary in nature and may be extended till the duration of the project. The position is temporary for a period of 1 year and tenable only for the duration of the project.
2. Applications in response to the advertisement will be scrutinized and shortlisted. Merely fulfilling the requirements prescribed in the advertisement does not automatically entitle an application to be taken forward in the selection process.
3. Applicants should ensure at their end that they possess the essential qualification(s) and experience laid down for the post. The qualification degree(s) must be from a recognized University /Institute.
4. Incomplete applications shall be summarily rejected.
5. Decision of the Institute in all matters relating to the eligibility of the applicants, Written Test and Selection shall be final and binding on all the applicants
6. Initially the post would be for 1 years. The performance of the selected/ appointed staff member shall be assessed before expiry of the contract and only those found suitable will be offered extension after completion of 1 year.
7. Details furnished in the online or offline application will be treated as final and no subsequent changes shall be entertained.
8. The Institute/employer reserves the right not to fill any of the advertised posts.
9. The selection committee may offer lower or higher designation and lower or higher salary depending upon the experience and performance of the candidate in the interview.
10. No correspondence or personal inquiries shall be entertained.
11. No correspondence shall be entertained from applicants regarding conduct and result of Written test/ Skill test and reasons thereof for not being called.
12. In case of any inadvertent mistake in the process of selection which may get detected at any stage, even after the issuance of an appointment letter, the Institute reserves the right to modify/withdraw/cancel any communication made to the candidate.
13. In case of any dispute/ambiguity that may occur in the process of selection, the decision of the Institute shall be final.
14. No TA/DA shall be paid to the applicants for attending the written test or interview.
15. Canvassing in any form shall lead to disqualification.
16. Applicants should provide their correct and active e-mail address in the application as all future correspondences like issuance of call letter or any other information will be communicated through e-mail only.
17. Addendum/corrigendum, if any, in respect of this advertisement, shall be notified through the Institute’s website.
18. Any resultant dispute arising out of this advertisement shall be subject to the sole jurisdiction of the Courts situated at Mumbai only.
