<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p>The ILPS group at the Informatics Institute of the University of
Amsterdam (UvA) has an opening for a postdoc or senior scientific
programmer in the ‘<a href="http://www.namescape.nl/">Namescape</a>’ project.</p><p>We are looking for someone with a background in computational
liguistics or AI, with an affinity for literature and the Dutch
language.<br>
The project is a collaboration with the Hygens institute for Dutch
History and the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) and financed by
Clarin-NL. The research concerns the use of named entities within Dutch
literature. The aim is to extend a manual pilot project on 20 novels to a
fully automatic analysis of a corpus of almost 9000 digitized modern
Dutch novels. The project involves named entity recognition, special
classification (real vs fictional entities), entity deduplication and
modelling co-occurrence of entities.</p><p>The project runs for 1 year. For more information, see the research proposal at <a href="http://ilps.science.uva.nl/PoliticalMashup/uploads/2012/01/proposal_namescape_abstract.pdf">http://ilps.science.uva.nl/PoliticalMashup/uploads/2012/01/proposal_namescape_abstract.pdf</a></p><p><strong>Profile:</strong> Background in computational linguistics or AI. Experience with Linux, NLP and XML technology.<br>
<strong>Level</strong> Postdoc or scientific programmer. Salary
(depending on education and work experience) between €2.379 and
€3.195 a month (before taxes).<br>
<strong>Duration</strong> 1 year<br>
<strong>Start </strong> March, April 2012<br>
<strong>Information</strong> Maarten Marx (<a href="mailto:maartenmarx@uva.nl">maartenmarx@uva.nl</a>)<br>
<strong>How to apply?</strong> Send your application with CV before February, 15 2012 to <a href="mailto:maartenmarx@uva.nl">maartenmarx@uva.nl</a> with subject “Namescape”.</p><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> M maartenmarx@uva.nl <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~marx">http://www.science.uva.nl/~marx</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Maarten </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> r Informatics Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> xxx Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam The Netherlands</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> x x Phone: +31 20 525 2888 Mobile: 06 400 16 120</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********************************************************************</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span></div> </div><br></body></html>