LINGUIST List 26.1676

Sun Mar 29 2015

Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Antwerp

Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>

Date: 28-Mar-2015
From: Frank Brisard <frank.brisarduantwerpen.be>
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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University or Organization: University of Antwerp
Department: Linguistics
Job Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Web Address: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/
Job Title: Researcher

Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at University of Antwerp is welcoming applications for the following position: researcher (100%) in the area of corpus linguistics.

Duties and responsibilities

- You assist in carrying out research related to the ERC starting grant ‘Mind-Bending Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers’ (https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/mind-bending-grammars/, PI Peter Petré). The central topic of this project is how much syntactic change is possible in adult individuals;
- You are responsible for
- Formatting of the corpus;
- Development and follow-up of a customized concordancing program & interactive platform, which integrates the analyses of the different team members;
- You are involved in
- The composition of the corpus;
- The statistical processing of the data;
- Optimalisation of the OCR-quality of some of the data.
- You contribute to teaching in the department of linguistics.

Requirements

- You hold at least a master degree in computational linguistics, IT or an equivalent degree;
- You are familiar with a scripting language (Perl, Python, Java);
- Familiarity with one or more of the following is an asset:
- Regular expressions;
- Advanced statistics;
- XML, TEI P5;
- Website management;
- Relational databases (SQL, PostgreSQL);
- OCR-technology
- You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;

We offer an appointment for 2 years, starting 1 September 2015, with a competitive salary (gross monthly salary ranges from 3.145,57 euro – 5.323,28 euro), in a dynamic team on a prestigious research project financed by the European Research Council.

For a full description of the job conditions, including a link to the online application form, see the application website.

Application Deadline: 15-May-2015

Web Address for Applications: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2015bapflwex127/
Contact Information:
Dr. Frank Brisard
Email: frank.brisarduantwerpen.be
Phone: +32 (0)3 265 42 69

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