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The Faculty of Science of the UvA is one of Europe's foremost institutions for higher education and research in its area of expertise. It participates in international science networks and collaborates with both universities and industry. The faculty has approximately 2,000 students and 1,500 employees spread over four departments and ten research institutes. Each institute has its own research programme, a substantial part of which is externally financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Dutch government, the EU, various private enterprises and the Foundation for Applied Sciences (STW).
Within the next year, the Faculty will complete its move to the Science Park Amsterdam. To facilitate this move, ambitious building projects have been and are still being carried out; they are due for completion summer 2010. The Faculty's move to the Science Park Amsterdam will make the Park one of the largest centres for academic research in the Netherlands.
The Language and Computation group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) has a job opening for an:
Assistant Professor in Statistical Natural Language Processing
38 hours per week for 2 years, starting in autumn 2010
vacancy number 10-1027
Tasks
- Carry out research in statistical natural language processing (50% of the time)
- Publish research results in leading journals
- Present results at conferences
- Contribute to the teaching in the Artificial Intelligence Bachelor's and Master's programmes (Natural Language Processing track)
- Contribute to supervision of Bachelor's and Master's projects in NLP
Requirements
All candidates should:
- have - preferably proven - research interest in the field of statistical natural language processing;
- have proven experience with research (e.g. a doctoral dissertation);
- have an excellent written and spoken command of English;
- have a strong affinity (experience is a plus) with teaching at Bachelor's and Master's levels.
Further information
The Language and Computation group is headed by Rens Bod (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/) and Khalil Sima'an (http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan/) and has six staff, seven postdoctoral researchers and a dozen of PhD students (http://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/research06b.php).
For further information, please contact Rens Bod or Khalil Sima'an.
Appointment
The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of one year. Subject to satisfactory performance, this will be followed by another year. Depending on qualifications and experience, the gross monthly salary will range from €3,195 to €4,374 (scale 11), based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week). Additional benefits include an 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
Job application
Please submit a letter of application in Dutch or English by no later than 1 June 2010, accompanied by a CV, a list of publications and names of two referees to the Dienst Personeelszaken, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Postbus 94216, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Applications can also be emailed to application-science@uva.nl, also bearing the vacancy number and the other documents as attachments.