LINGUIST List 27.886
Thu Feb 18 2016
Jobs: Persian; Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Labex EFL
Editor for this issue: Andrew Lamont <alamontlinguistlist.org>
Date: 18-Feb-2016
From: Pollet Samvelian <pollet.samvelian
univ-paris3.fr>
Subject: Persian; Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Labex EFL, Paris, France
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Job Location: Paris, France
Web Address:
http://www.labex-efl.org/ Job Title: Post-doc automatic acquisition of lexicon and Persian complex predicates
Job Rank: Post Doc
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Required Language(s):
Persian, Iranian (pes) Description:
Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
Strand 6 - Language Resources
Job announcement
Job title: Automatic Acquisition of lexicon
Automatic acquisition of Persian compound verbs (complex predicates) and their semantic and syntactic properties from available online corpora (Wiki, etc.), with the possibility of extension to other related languages (ex. Pashto, Kurdish, etc.)
Job rank: Post Doc
Duration: One year
Job Location: Paris
University/laboratory: Sorbonne Paris Cité University, “Mondes iranien et indien” (
http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/?lang=fr) and Alpage (
http://www.inria.fr/equipes/alpage) laboratories
Salary: 2000 to 2400 euros per month (according to the applicant's experience), net of taxes
Application deadline: 18th March 2016
Interview: April 2016
Starting date: 1st May 2016
Contacts for application: Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian
univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe
linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot
univ-paris3.fr).
Job description
The project consists in automatically enriching the PersPred database (
http://perspred.cnrs.fr/), the first online syntactic and semantic multilingual database dedicated to Persian compound verbs (complex predicates). PersPred currently has 1600 entries. We aim at considerably improving the coverage of the database (by tripling the number of entries). We are also interested in the possibility of applying the methods elaborated for enriching PersPred to develop similar resources for other Iranian languages (Kurdish or Pashto, for instance, which like Persian resort to compound verbs.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have a PhD in computational linguistics or computer science with an excellent knowledge in natural language processing. Familiarity with methods of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge about multiword predicates is desirable.
Knowledge of Persian or at least familiarity with the Arabic script would be highly appreciated.
Job Context
The project is a part of the work package LR41 (Morphological and syntactic resources for Iranian language), of the strand 6 of the Labex EFL. It will be carried out under the joined supervision of Pollet Samvelian (for the linguistic component) and Benoît Crabbé (for the computational component).
Application submission
Applicants are invited to send to Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian
univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe
linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot
univ-paris3.fr):
- A cover letter
- A CV including their list of publications
- The name and the contact of two referees
- A link for downloading their publications
Application Deadline: 18-Mar-2016
Email Address for Applications: pollet.samvelian
univ-paris3.fr
Contact Information:
Professor Pollet Samvelian
Email: pollet.samvelian
univ-paris3.fr
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