Postdoc (3 years) - Statistical Natural Language Processing

The VIDI project "Priors for the Estimation of Probabilistic Grammars from Incomplete Natural Language Data" is looking for a candidate
- who is passionate about empirical research, statistical learning methods and NLP/CL,
- with a cooperative yet independent personality,
- for a 3 year postdoc position working with a young and creative group of researchers.
Minor teaching and supervision duties are expected.

Example topics within the scope of the project:
1. Statistical (data-driven) adaptation of a parser from one domain of language use to another,
2. Statistical unsupervised induction of parsers from raw corpora (including parallel corpora),
3. Statistical machine translation with syntactic and semantic structure.
Candidates are encouraged to suggest similar topics of their own for this position.

Deadline of application: January 13. For more information, see http://staff.science.uva.nl/~simaan/postdoc_adv.html