[Corpora-List] Vacancy postdoctoral researcher in Statistical MT

[Khalil Sima`an]

Postdoc in Statistical Machine Translation

for 38 hours per week

vacancy number 14-263

gross monthly salary Maximum EUR 3,831 (scale 10)

/gross salary is increased by 8% holiday allowance and 8.3 % bonus on 
yearly basis/


*Prospective candidates should*

  * Hold or be about to obtain a PhD degree in statistical natural
    language processing or a related research area with experience in
    statistical learning and/or machine translation.
  * Have aproven track record of excellence in research, as witnessed by
    a strong publication list in relevant first-tier conference
    proceedings or journals.
  * Have a proven experience in and affinity with programming and
    empirical experimentation with text (parallel) corpora.
  * Have strong passion for research, a drive to publish and the wish to
    learn new skills through working with or assisting in guiding PhD
    and MSc students.
  * Have good communication skills in English, both oral and written.

Tasks

  * Conduct research in SMT, e.g., domain adaptation, evaluation or
    statistical learning for SMT, syntax and semantics for SMT,
    reordering models, SMT into morphology-rich languages, etc.
  * Present and publish research findings together with team members in
    proceedings and journals.
  * Program and test the developed algorithms in prototype systems and
    make these usable for other team members.
  * Assist in guiding PhD and MSc students working on topics in
    Computational Linguistics at large.
  * While this is primarily a research position, the successful
    candidate will be expected to also make a small contribution to
    teaching.

Appointment

The appointment will be for a period of 36 months (full-time, 38 
hours/week) after a 12 month probation period. The starting date is as 
soon as possible. The gross monthly salary will be in accordance with 
university regulations for academic personnel in the Netherlands, 
maximum EUR 3,831 (scale 10), depending on experience. The annual salary 
is increased by 8% holiday allowance and 8.3 % end-of-year bonus 
(effectively 13th and 14th months). The Collective Labor Agreement for 
Dutch universities is applicable.

Further information

For further information on the open positions contact Professor dr. 
Khalil Sima'ank.simaan at uva.nl <mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>.

Job application

Applications (single PDF file) should consists of (1) a brief letter of 
motivation, (2) a detailed curriculum vitae, (3) a list of publications, 
(4) the names and contact details of three academic referees and (5) a 
link to a website with an online version of PhD thesis and relevant 
publications (e.g., your professional homepage --please do not 
include articles or thesis in your application).

Applications must be sent electronically both to k.simaan at uva.nl 
<mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>, mentioning the vacancy number in the subject 
line.Recruitment will continue until position is filled.

Refer to

Professor Dr Khalil Sima'an 
(link:<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>)

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