LINGUIST List 22.2296 Tue May 31 2011 Support: German & Comp Ling: PhD Student, Uni of Zurich, Switzerland Editor for this issue: Lili Xia <lxialinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Stefan Hoefler , German, Standard & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland Message 1: German, Standard & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland Date: 30-May-2011 From: Stefan Hoefler <hoeflercl.uzh.ch> Subject: German, Standard & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland E-mail this message to a friend Institution/Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland Department: Institute of Computational Linguistics Web Address: http://www.cl.uzh.ch Level: PhD Duties: Research,Project Work Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics Required Language(s): German, Standard (deu) Description: The Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zürich is looking for a PhD student to carry out research in the project "Automated Detection of Styleguide Violations in Legislative Drafts". The project aims at developing methods and tools for automated style checking in the domain of legislative editing. Qualifications: - Licentiate or Master degree in Computational Linguistics or a related field - Languages: good command of German and English - Good programming skills The PhD student will be expected to work closely with the members of our team on: - Processing (tokenizing, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, ...) Swiss legislative texts written in German - Building an annotated corpus of Swiss legislative texts - Implementing a user-friendly front-end for a legislative style checker - Developing strategies for the detection of specific components of legislative texts Benefits: - Scholarship according to the Swiss National Science Foundation rules (40,000 CHF - 46,000 CHF annually) - Additional earnings through teaching assignments possible - Support for conference and summer school attendance - Small and enthusiastic team - High standard of living in one of the most attractive European cities: Zurich Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Hess Project leader: Dr. Stefan Hoefler The position can be filled immediately and has secured funding for 36 months. Please send your CV, your academic record and a short letter of interest by 22 June 2011 to: Dr. Stefan Hoefler (stefan.hoefleruzh.ch) Applications Deadline: 22-Jun-2011 Mailing Address for Applications:         Attn: Dr. Stefan Hoefler         University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics         Binzmuehlestrasse 14         Zurich CH-8050         Switzerland Contact Information:         Dr. Stefan Hoefler         stefan.hoefleruzh.ch Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 31-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.