[Corpora-List] Postdoc position in Statistical MT (Univ. Amsterdam)

[Christof Monz]

The Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam invites
applications for a fully funded post-doctoral researcher position in
the area of Statistical Machine Translation supervised by Dr. Christof
Monz.

Application closing date: September 30, 2010.
Starting date: January 2011 (earlier starting date possible)
Duration: 24 months

The research of the post-doctoral researcher will aim to model
statistically how user feedback and corrections can be integrated into
a statistical machine translation system to improve translation
quality.

The position is in the CoSyne EU project which focuses on machine
translation in an interactive environment. CoSyne is a multinational,
collaborative research project involving seven prominent partner
institutions in four European countries. The CoSyne project addresses
the challenges and opportunities that Machine Translation and
cross-language information integration face in a dynamic Wiki context.

More information on the CoSyne project can be found at www.cosyne.eu.

Applicants must have a PhD (or be near completion) in computer science
or a closely related area.

In addition, a successful candidate should:

* have a strong track record of successful implementation and
   productive research in natural language processing or machine
   learning. A background in statistical machine translation is a plus.

* have a good knowledge of programming in at least one of the
   following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Perl.

* enjoy working with large, real-world data sets

* have excellent communication skills both oral and written

The successful candidate will be based in the Intelligent Systems Lab
Amsterdam (ISLA) within the Informatics Institute at the University of
Amsterdam. ISLA consists of 20 members of faculty, 20 post-doctoral
researchers, and more than 50 PhD students. Members of the lab are
actively pursuing a variety of research initiatives, including machine
translation, natural language processing, (cross-language) information
retrieval, social network analysis, computer vision, machine learning,
and multi-agent systems.

Some of the things we have to offer:

* competitive pay and excellent benefits
* extremely friendly working environment
* high-level of interaction
* location near the city center (10 minutes by bicycle) of one
   Europe's most beautiful and lively cities
* international environment (10+ nationalities in the group)
* access to high-end computing facilities (cluster with 4,000+ cores)
* brand-new building

Since Amsterdam is a very international city where almost everybody
speaks and understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the
language barrier.

Informal inquiries can be made by email to Christof Monz
(c.monz at uva.nl).

For further details of this position and to submit your application,
please visit

http://www.uva.nl/vacatures/vacatures.cfm/D75B19F5-1321-B0BE-683EF498D6363477

OR

http://tiny.cc/v7m8j


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Christof Monz
ISLA, Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam

Phone: +31 (0)20-525-8676
Fax: +31 (0)20-525-7490
Email: c.monz at uva.nl
Web: http://www.science.uva.nl/~christof







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