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PhD candidate in Statistical Computational Linguistics</b><br>
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Keywords Statistical Machine Translation;
Statistical Parsing; Statistical Semantics<br>
Closing date 15 September 2014<br>
Vacancy 14-264<br>
Salary indication €2,083 to €2,664 gross per month (+
vacation allowance and end of year bonus)<br>
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<u><b>Summary of vacancy</b></u><br>
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<b>Requirements</b><br>
The PhD candidate should have:<br>
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<li>a Master's degree with excellent grades in a relevant field
such as computational linguistics or natural language processing
with strong background in statistical modeling combined with
some background in formal grammars, formal language theory,
formal linguistics and/or formal semantics;</li>
<li>programming skills and passion for empirical work with big
language data;</li>
<li>good academic writing and presentation skills;</li>
<li>good social and organisational skills.<br>
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This PhD position is part of a VICI project within the <a
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Processing and Learning (SLPL) Lab.</a> lead by Dr. Khalil
Sima’an. Research topics in the SLPL Lab. include statistical
machine translation, paraphrasing, parsing, morphology and machine
learning for language processing.<br>
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<b>Appointment</b><br>
Appointment (1,0 fte) is on a temporary basis for a period of <b>four</b>
<b>years</b>. In the first instance, a contract will be given for 18
months. If positively evaluated, the contract will be extended for
30 months.<br>
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On the basis of a full-time appointment (38 hours per week), the
gross monthly salary amounts to €2,083 during the first year, rising
to €2,664 during the fourth year. The Collective Employment
Agreement (CAO) of the Dutch Universities is applicable.<br>
<i>Starting date: Before 1 January 2015.</i><br>
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<b>Job application</b><br>
Applications should include the following information, in separate
pdf files (not zipped), using surname, initials and a self-evident
word as file names, e.g. , Smith J CV:<br>
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<li>a curriculum vitae (including an url allowing download of pdf
of M.Sc. thesis, if relevant);</li>
<li>a letter of motivation (at most 1 page) explaining why you are
interested in this position;</li>
<li>a research statement (at most 2 pages), explaining your
research interests and how you think they can be related to the
topics mentioned in the Job Description above;</li>
<li>a list of all university courses taken, including a transcript
of grades;</li>
<li>the names and contact details (with email address) of two or
three academic referees, one of whom should be the main
supervisor of your Master thesis.<br>
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</ul>
Completed applications should be submitted by 15 September 2014 to <a
href="mailto:application-science@uva.nl">application-science@uva.nl
</a>and should state your name and vacancy 14-264 in the subject
field. The committee does not guarantee that late or incomplete
applications will be considered.<br>
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For more information, see ]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-264.html">http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-264.html</a>
or contact Professor dr. Khalil Sima'an at k.simaan at uva.nl.
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Professor Dr. Khalil Sima`an
Chair of Computational Linguistics | Vici Laureate
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan">http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan</a>
+31 (0) 20 525 6573 | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k.simaan@uva.nl">k.simaan@uva.nl</a> </pre>
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