[Corpora-List] post-doctoral position in Statistical Machine Translation in Amsterdam

[Khalil Sima`an]

Lat call: deadline 1 June 2014.


The<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html>SLPL Lab 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html>, led 
by<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>Dr Khalil. Sima'an 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan>, is seeking to attract three 
year post-doctoral researchers in Statistical Machine Translation. In 
March 2014 the SLPL Lab. consists of 6 PhD students, 1 postdoc and a 
programmer. The SLPL Lab still has 5 vacancies among which post-doctoral 
positions.


Vacancy details are found here (see also summary below):

http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-078.html


Postdoc in Statistical Machine Translation

for 38 hours per week

vacancy number PD2/DatAptor/Vici

gross monthly salary EUR 2,427 to EUR 3,831 (scale 10)

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

Requirements

Prospective candidates should

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

Tasks

  * Conduct research in SMT on, e.g., domain adaptation, semantic
    factors in SMT, paraphrasing, (hierarchical) reordering models, MT
    evaluation or statistical learning in SMT.
  * Present and publish research findings together with team members in
    proceedings and journals.
  * Program and test the developed algorithms in prototype systems and
    make these usable for other team members.
  * Assist in guiding PhD and MSc students working on topics in
    Computational Linguistics at large.
  * 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) 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, and 
will range from approximately EUR 2,427 to EUR 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.

Further information

For further information on the open positions contact dr. Khalil 
Sima'ank.simaan at uva.nl <mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>.

Job application

Applications (single PDF file) 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 --please do not 
include articles or thesis in your application).

Applications must be sent electronically both to k.simaan at uva.nl 
<mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>and to application-science at uva.nl 
<mailto:application-science at uva.nl>, mentioning the vacancy number in 
the subject line.Deadline for applications is *1 June 2014 *but 
recruitment is ongoing now.

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>)

-- 
Dr Khalil Sima`an
Associate Professor
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan
+31 (0) 20 525 6573 | k.simaan at uva.nl

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