[Corpora-List] postdoc position (3yr) in Statistical MT and Adaptation at UvA Amsterdam

[Khalil Sima`an]

<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/Advertisements/Postdoc%20nr%201%20%20STW%20Sima%27an.html>The<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html>SLPL 
Lab. <http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html>at the 
University of Amsterdam is seeking a


Postdoc in Statistical Machine Translation Adaptation

for 38 hours per week

vacancy number  PD2/DatAptor

gross monthly salary EUR 2,379 to EUR 3,755 (scale 10)

(gross salary is increased by 8% holiday allowance and 8.3 % bonus on 
yearly basis)

Requirements

Prospective candidates should

 1. Hold or be about to obtain a PhD degree in statistical natural
    language processing with experience in both statistical
    learning/adaptation and machine translation.

 1. Have aproven track record of excellence in research, as witnessed by
    publications in relevant first-tier conference proceedings or journals.
 2. Have a proven experience in and affinity with programming and
    empirical experimentation with text (parallel) corpora.
 3. Have good communication skills in English, both oral and written.

Tasks

 1. Conduct research and development in SMT on large multi-domain
    parallel corpora to realize the DatAptor project plan.

 1. Present and publish research findings together with team members in
    proceedings and journals following STW's publication guidelines.
 2. Program and test the developed algorithms in prototype systems and
    make these usable for other team members.
 3. While this is primarily a research position, the successful
    candidate will be expected to also make a small contribution to
    teaching.

Appointment

The appointment will be for a period of 36 months (full-time, 38 
hours/week). The starting date is somewhat negotiable but should be 
before January 2014. The gross monthly salary will be in accordance with 
university regulations for academic personnel in the Netherlands, and 
will range from approximately EUR 2,379 to EUR 3,755 (scale 10), 
depending on experience. The annual salary will be 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.

Further information

For further information on the open position, please feel free to 
contact dr. Khalil Sima'an (following the linkk . simaan at uva nl 
<mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>).

Job application

Applications should include a brief letter of motivation, a detailed 
curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and the names and contact 
details of three academic referees. If possible, please also include a 
link to a website with an online version of your PhD thesis and relevant 
publications (e.g., your professional homepage). Applications should be 
sent by email to k.simaan at uva.nl with subject line "Vacancy number: 
PD2/DatAptor". Please send asingle PDF file. The application deadline is 
20 August 2013 or until position is filled.

Refer to

Dr Khalil Sima'an 
(link:<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>)


Full detail: Postdoc SMT Adaptation at SLPL Lab. ILLC-UvA 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/Advertisements/Postdoc%20nr%201%20%20STW%20Sima%27an.html>


-- 
Dr Khalil Sima`an
Associate Professor
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan
Tel 020 525 6573

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