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PhD candidate in Statistical Computational Linguistics*
Keywords Statistical Machine Translation; Statistical
Parsing; Statistical Semantics
Closing date 15 September 2014
Vacancy 14-264
Salary indication EUR2,083 to EUR2,664 gross per month (+
vacation allowance and end of year bonus)
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_Detail is found on
http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-264.html
_*Summary of vacancy*_
*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 strong
background in statistical modeling combined with some background in
formal grammars, formal language theory, formal linguistics and/or
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 a VICI project within the Statistical
Language Processing and Learning (SLPL) Lab.
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Esimaan/research_all.html> lead by Dr.
Khalil Sima'an. Research topics in the SLPL Lab. include statistical
machine translation, paraphrasing, parsing, morphology and machine
learning for language processing.
*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 1 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, if relevant);
* a letter of motivation (at most 1 page) explaining why you are
interested in this position;
* a research statement (at most 2 pages), explaining your research
interests and how you think they can be related to the topics
mentioned in the Job Description above;
* a list of all university courses taken, including a transcript of
grades;
* 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 15 September 2014 to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>and should
state your name and vacancy 14-264 in the subject field. The committee
does not guarantee that late or incomplete applications will be considered.
For more information, see
]http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-264.html
or contact Professor dr. Khalil Sima'an at k.simaan at uva.nl.
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Professor Dr Khalil Sima'an | Vici Laureate
Chair of Computational Linguistics
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam
Tel#: +31-20-525 6573
Fax#: +31-20-525 5206
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan
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