The candidate will participate in the NEL-GAITU project, whose aim is to promote multilingual language and speech technologies for Iberian languages. NEL-GAITU is part of a common and coordinated project between the different official languages of the Spanish state, called NEL (New Language Economy). The ultimate goal of NEL is the development of multilingual resources such as multilingual language models, as well as speech processing models and automatic translation systems that respond to the needs of society and are in line with current technology, in which multilingualism and the transfer between languages play a key role.

The goal of this open position is to develop multilingual machine translation models to translate between Iberian languages (Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician) and the most important languages worldwide (English, Arabic, Chinese, ...).

The candidate will perform the following tasks, among others:

• Gathering and pre-processing of parallel data for all languages in the Iberian peninsula.
• Development of bilingual and multilingual machine translation models.
• Evaluation of the models in public and newly gathered testsets.