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Postdoctoral position in statistical machine translation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Deadline: 1 June 2014

Postdoctoral researcher in Statistical Machine Translation

Within ILLC, the SLPL Lab, led by Dr Khalil. Sima'an, is seeking to 
attract three-year postdoctoral researchers in Statistical Machine 
Translation. In March 2014 the SLPL Lab. consists of 6 PhD candidates, 1 
postdoctoral researcher and a programmer. The SLPL Lab still has 5 
vacancies among which multiple postdoctoral positions on two projects: STW 
DatAptor, and NWO-VICI.

Project description
- 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.

Application deadline: 1 June 2014. For more information, see
http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/14-078.html.