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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Postdoc in
Statistical Machine Translation</span>
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38 hours per week</span></p>
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number 14-263<br>
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monthly salary € 2,427 to € 3,831 (scale 10)</span></p>
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salary is increased by 8% holiday allowance and 8.3 % bonus on
yearly basis)</span></i></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Requirements</span></p>
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candidates should</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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0px;"><span>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.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Have a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-style: italic;">proven track record of excellence</span><span> in
research, as witnessed by a strong publication list in
relevant first-tier conference proceedings or journals.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Have a proven experience in and affinity with
programming and empirical experimentation with text (parallel)
corpora.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>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.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Have good communication skills in English, both oral
and written.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Conduct research in SMT on, e.g., domain adaptation,
MT evaluation or statistical learning for SMT.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Present and publish research findings together with
team members in proceedings and journals. </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Program and test the developed algorithms in
prototype systems and make these usable for other team
members.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>Assist in guiding PhD and MSc students working on
topics in Computational Linguistics at large.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
direction: ltr; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; padding:
0px;"><span>While this is primarily a research position, the
successful candidate will be expected to also make a small
contribution to teaching. </span></li>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Appointment</span></p>
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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, and will range from approximately € 2,427 to €
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.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Further information</span></p>
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further information on the open positions contact Professor dr.
Khalil Sima’an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="mailto:k.simaan@uva.nl" style="color: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit;">k.simaan@uva.nl</a></span><span>.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Job application</span></p>
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(</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">single PDF file</span><span>)
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 --<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> please </span></span>do not
include<span> articles or thesis in your application).</span></p>
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</span><span lang="en-US">Applications must be sent electronically
both to </span><span><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="mailto:k.simaan@uva.nl" style="color: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit;">k.simaan@uva.nl</a></span><span>
and to </span><a href="mailto:application-science@uva.nl"><font
color="#00000a">application-science@uva.nl</font></a>,
mentioning the vacancy number in the subject line.<span> Deadline
for applications is 15 September 2014 but recruitment will
continue until position is filled with a suitable candidate.</span><span></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Refer to</span></p>
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Dr Khalil Sima'an (link:</span><span><a
href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan" style="color:
inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"> </a></span><span
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan" style="color:
inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan</a></span><span>)</span></p>
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