LINGUIST List 26.2632
Tue May 26 2015
Jobs: Semitic; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Associate, Hamburg University
Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-May-2015
From: Thomas Eich <thomas.eich
uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Semitic; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Associate, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
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Department: Humanities, Asia Africa Institute
Job Location: Hamburg, Germany
Job Title: Research Associate
Job Rank: Researcher
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Required Language(s): Semitic
Description:
Full time. Research Associate in the 5 year project "Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam" (COBHUNI) (funded by the European Research Council).
COBHUNI analyzes how the conceptualizations of pre-natal life developed throughout 1400 years of Islamic history. This aims at a better assessment of the factors which impacted on these conceptualizations at different times and possibly transformed them. In COBHUNI the focus of analysis are two text corpora: the Quran and prophetic sayings (hadith) to which commentary literature emerged over time and is produced until today. Both contain passages communicating ideas of pre-natal life. COBHUNI will analyze those passages along two axes: a) a vertical axis (citation patterns within the respective genre), b) horizontal axis (citations transcending the genres).
A major aspect of the project will be the adaptation and development of tools of computational linguistics for Arabic text material.
Among your responsibilities are:
- Working in the ERC-project COBHUNI (Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam)
- Research in the area of "Digital Humanities" and corpus linguistics
- Conceptualization and implementation of internet-based tools for citation analysis and development of a meta data model
- Supervision of the data ingest (Scans, OCR, XML etc.) and technical instruction of the research team
- Technical supervision of the virtual web servers and repositories (Fedora/MyCoRe)
Requirements:
A university degree in a relevant subject. Knowledge of English and a right-to-left hand, Semitic language. Familiarity with markup languages and meta data standards in XML (TEI, METS/MODS) and their accompanying technologies such as XSLT and Xquery. Substantiated knowledge of up-to-date web technologies and experience with web development. Experienced handling of relational databases (MySQL) and search engine technology (SOLR). Good communication skills, flexibility, good time management.
Desirable: Experience with Digital Humanities (e.g. digital editions among others). Openness for interdisciplinary cooperation. Knowledge in the programming languages Java and C++.
For further information on COBHUNI see:
http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/Personal/Eich.html Application Deadline: 17-Jun-2015
Email Address for Applications: thomas.eich
uni-hamburg.de
Contact Information:
Thomas Eich
Email: thomas.eich
uni-hamburg.de
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