LINGUIST List 28.171
Tue Jan 10 2017
Support: African Deaf Sign Languages; Computational Linguistics / Netherlands
Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amandalinguistlist.org>
Date: 19-Dec-2016
From: Victoria Nyst <v.a.s.nyst
hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: African Deaf Sign Languages; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Leiden University, Netherlands
E-mail this message to a friend Department: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Web Address:
https://goo.gl/g884TJ Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: Leiden University
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
African Deaf Sign Languages
Description:
Dear all,
Currently, two PhD positions in data science are available at Leiden University (The Netherlands):
https://goo.gl/g884TJ Project description
Candidates should have relevant domain expertise and will be trained in data scientific methods. You will carry out research at the Faculty of Humanities and the Leiden Centre Data Science, with intensive interaction with other PhD candidates through joint research and participation in training modules, workshops, and summer schools. Each PhD student will be supervised by a domain expert from the Humanities Faculty and a data scientist.
Project 1. Exploring new methods in comparing sign language corpora: analysing cross-linguistic variation in the lexicon (dr. Victoria Nyst).
- The candidate should have an MA in corpus and/or computational linguistics, with emphasis on collection and organization of lexical databases
- Familiarity with Python and Java (and Django) will be an asset, as well as familiarity with automated image analysis
- A basic command of a sign language or the willingness to acquire this is requested
- As some of the corpora are annotated in French, a basic knowledge of French is helpful.
Project 2. Detecting cross-linguistic Syntactic Differences Automatically (DeSDA) (prof. Sjef Barbiers)
- The candidate should have an MA in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence or equivalent, with affinity to the research field of comparative syntax of natural language
- You should have familiarity with POS-tagging, parsing and data mining tools and be able to adapt these to the needs of the project, using programming languages, software packages and standards such as Java, C++, XML, PHP, Python, R, SQL and RDF.
Applications Deadline: 07-Jan-2017
Web Address for Applications: vacaturesFB
hum.leidenuniv.nl
Contact Information:
Prof Hilde De Weerdt
h.g.d.g.de.weerdt
hum.leidenuniv.nl
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