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Martin,

Your letter is excellent.  I have made a few changes.
1. first paragraph - In response to
2. second paragraph - In 2003 I completed
3. second paragraph - Radboud University Nijmegen (where?)
4. third paragraph - reorganized word order in first sentence
5. third paragraph - I gained
6. fourth paragraph - last sentence changed to "value to you"
7. at the end - added the sentence, "I look forward to hearing from you"
8. fixed a few capital letters throughout the letter.
It looks great to me!  Good Luck!

Allison Burris, ESL Instructor


> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> From:     xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> To:       xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Subject:  Application for position of computational linguist (ref. nr. xxxx)
> 
> Dear Mrs. xxxxxxxxxx,
>  
> In response to the job opening posted on your website, I would like to apply
> for the position of computational linguist (vacancy nr. xxxx, open until
> 21-2-2005). You will find my CV in the email attachment.
> 
> In 2003, I completed my Master of Arts degree in Language, Speech &
> Information Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen (where?). I have worked as a
> research assistant (Ph.D. student) at the Universit� Catholique de Louvain
> (Belgium) for one year, in the field of second language acquisition
> research. This has been a valuable experience, but I have now decided to
> focus more on the computational side of linguistics.
> 
> The topic of my M.A. thesis was the possible use of a syntax parser in a text-to-speech system,
> developed at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In
> this project I gained experience with practical and theoretical aspects
> of natural language processing. In my job as lab assistant at the Max Planck
> Institute for Psycholinguistics, I have had the opportunity to gain
> experience conducting scientific experiments, and to learn from the theory
> behind them. Also, I have worked with, and contributed to, specialized
> software tools for analysis of the results. Finally, I have worked
> temporarily for the lexicon management team of the Corpus of Spoken Dutch
> project.
> 
> As language technology progresses, semantic annotation is added to
> (automated) POS-tagging, presenting its own challenge. I would like to
> contribute to this effort in the international context of the eContent and
> LIRICS projects, and I'm confident my computational and corpus linguistics
> experience would be of value to you.
>  
> I would welcome the opportunity to further explain to you my interests in
> the LIRICS project.
> 
> If you are interested, or if you have any questions, you can always contact
> me by email or by phone.  I look forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> Firstname Lastname
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> address
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> email
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