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.
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'[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
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 [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>and to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, mentioning the vacancy number in
the subject line.Deadline for applications is 1 June 2014 but
recruitment will continue until position is filled with a suitable
candidate.
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>)
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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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