Corpora: Assistant Professorship at ILLC

[Christof Monz]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

Assistant Professorship at ILLC

The `Computational and Applied Logic' group of the Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation invites applications for a

fulltime assistant professor.

Candidates should hold a PhD in computer science, and have a
strong background in the use of statistical methods, experimental
research, and evaluating algorithms and systems in one or more of
the following areas: information retrieval, natural language
processing, computational logic.

Candidates are expected to teach courses from the `Computational
and Applied Logic' group's teaching programme.  In addition,
candidates will be involved in managing research projects that
involving academic and/or industrial partners.  Candidates will
also be expected to participate in the supervision of Master and
PhD students.

This is a four-year position, with the possibility of tenure
after four years.  The maximum salary is 9456 Dutch Guilders,
gross per month.

The `Computational and Applied Logic' group's research interests
range from automated reasoning, constraint programming,
satisfability checking, and formal verification to digital
libraries, information retrieval, computational linguistics, and
knowledge engineering.  The group is strongly internationally
oriented, and currently consists of 15 people; it is expected to
grow substantially over the next year.

With its focus on experimental and applied research, the
`Computational and Applied Logic' group is an essential and
attractive ingredient of the Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence programmes at the University of Amsterdam.

Further information about this position may be obtained from Dr.
M. de Rijke (+31 20 525 6511, mdr at illc.uva.nl).  Further details
on the `Computational and Applied Logic' group are available on
the web at http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/CALG/.

Starting date:
January 1, 2002, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Application deadline:
To assure full consideration, applications must be received by
August 31, 2001.

Applications:
Submit a curriculum vitae, list of publications, statements of
research and teaching interests, as well as the names and email
addresses of at least three references to:

  UvA/FNWI, Dienst Personeelszaken
  Valckenierstraat 65
  1018 XE Amsterdam
  the Netherlands

Please quote Reference number 15130.