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PhD candidate in Statistical Machine Translation
Keywords Statistical Machine Translation; Statistical Parsing;
Statistical Semantics
Closing date September 2014
Vacancy 14-264-EX
Salary indication €2,083 to €2,664 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. 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 €2,083 during the first year, rising to €2,664 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@uva.nl
and should state your name and vacancy 14-264 in the subject field.
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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@uva.nl
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