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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 Maximum € 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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candidates should</span></b></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, e.g., domain adaptation,
evaluation or statistical learning for SMT, syntax and
semantics for SMT, reordering models, SMT into morphology-rich
languages, etc.<br>
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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>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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font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"><span>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 € 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></span>,
mentioning the vacancy number in the subject line.<span>
Recruitment will continue until position is filled.</span><span></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Refer to</span></p>
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font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; padding: 0px;"><span>Professor
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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