[Corpora-List] PhD position in Statistical Machine Translation in Amsterdam

[Khalil Sima`an]

Please re-distribute among M.Sc. students finishing/finished with their 
thesis work.*

PhD candidate in Statistical Machine Translation*

Keywords                   Statistical Machine Translation; Statistical 
Parsing; Statistical Semantics
Closing date               September 2014
Vacancy                      14-264-EX
Salary indication        EUR2,083 to EUR2,664 gross per month (+ 
vacation allowance and end of year bonus amounting to approximately a 
13th and a 14th month)

*Requirements*
The PhD candidate should have:

  * a Master's degree with excellent grades in a relevant field such as
    computational linguistics or natural language processing with
    suitable background in the largest subset of the following:
    statistical modeling, machine learning, formal grammars, formal
    language theory, formal linguistics and formal semantics;
  * programming skills and passion for empirical work with big language
    data;
  * good academic writing and presentation skills;
  * good social and organisational skills.

This PhD position is part of the Statistical Language Processing and 
Learning (SLPL) Lab. 
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html> lead by 
Professor Dr. Khalil Sima'an.

*Appointment*
Appointment (1,0 fte) is on a temporary basis for a period of *four* 
*years*. In the first instance, a contract will be given for 18 months. 
If positively evaluated, the contract will be extended for 30 months.

On the basis of a full-time appointment (38 hours per week), the gross 
monthly salary amounts to EUR2,083 during the first year, rising to 
EUR2,664 during the fourth year. The Collective Employment Agreement 
(CAO) of the Dutch Universities is applicable.
/Starting date: Before 15 January 2015./

*Job application*
Applications should include the following information, in separate pdf 
files (not zipped), using surname, initials and a self-evident word as 
file names, e.g. , Smith J CV:

  * a curriculum vitae (including an url allowing download of pdf of
    M.Sc. thesis or any other publications);
  * a letter of motivation (at most 1 page) explaining why you are
    interested in this position;
  * the names and contact details (with email address) of two or three
    academic referees, one of whom should be the main supervisor of your
    Master thesis.

Completed applications should be submitted by September 2014 to 
k.simaan at uva.nl <mailto:k.simaan at uva.nl>and should state your name and 
vacancy 14-264 in the subject field.

-- 
Professor Dr. Khalil Sima`an
Chair of Computational Linguistics
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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