5 February: fyi -- speech science, Amsterdam
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Academic vacancies
The UvA is looking for enthusiastic talented young scientists to teach
and do research
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities is one of the largest faculties of the
Universiteit van Amsterdam. Education in the Faculty of Humanities is
organised by six departments: Dutch, History and regional studies,
Language and literature, Philosophy, Art and cultural studies and
Theology and religious studies. The Faculty maintains close links with
the surrounding culture and society, conducts pioneer research and
offers a broad selection of programmes. In addition to its ties with
many cultural institutions in Amsterdam, teaching and research reflect
a strong international orientation at the Faculty. Such diversity
requires flexible organisation of education, research and staff with
encouragement of personal initiative and enrichment.
N e w s t i m u l i
New stimuli are needed to develop broad spectrum teaching and research
on language and culture. This is why the Faculty of Humanities is
launching ten new projects varying from Music in the World of Islam
and History and Theory of Photography to The Essence of Language.
Depending on the responses, the decision will be made which ten of the
fourteen new projects to appoint talented young scientists for.
The scientists the UvA is looking for have a Humanities background and
have a Ph.D. Enthusiastic scientists with good teaching skills are
needed to pass on their knowledge - acquired for example in the course
of their Ph.D. research - to new generations of language and culture
experts. So it is important for them to be able to combine excellent
research with fine teaching. An affinity with their students is
essential. Of course suitable candidates have insight into the latest
developments in their field. And by serving as a bridge between
various disciplines, these new UvA scientists will be able to
contribute towards the expansion and innovation the Faculty has in
mind.
The UvA is looking for talented young scientists: Language and Speech
Technology
Full-time
Vacancy number 9183
Open for external applicants
Job profile
Language and Speech Technology
The relation between linguistics and speech technology and the
reinforcement of the position of speech technology as component of
other study programmes job vacancy number 9183
You lecture on language and speech technology. You contribute towards
further training and research developments in this field and venture
in new directions. The subjects you focus on include speech
recognition, speech synthesis, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech
translation systems, information extraction and telecommunication. You
lecture on any number of subjects in the Linguistics study programme,
the Faculty?s study programmes in various languages, and the
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science inter-Faculty study
programmes.
More information
For further information call Prof. H.A. van der Liet at 31-20-525 4664.
Appointment
University lecturers are appointed for a period of two years. If they
work well in every way, they are then appointed for an indefinite
period of time. Depending on their age and experience, the salary goes
up to a gross monthly maximum of ? 4,420.00 (scale 12).
Lecturers are appointed to a full-time position but if they so wish,
it is possible to discuss working 80% of the week.
The Faculty draws up a training and supervision programme in
conjunction with you, which you do under the supervision of a personal
mentor.
Job application
Applications accompanied by a résumé should be submitted before 21
February 2003 to the Director of the Faculty of Humanities at the
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Personnel and Organization Division,
Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam. Please write the job vacancy number
and ?strictly confidential? in the upper left hand corner of the
envelope.
You can also submit your job application by email to solliciteren@hum.uva.nl.
Procedure
Experts in the specific specialized fields will do the initial
selection of candidates for the positions. Then a Faculty committee
will do a second selection. In the end, ten candidates will be
proposed for the positions.
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