LINGUIST List 31.2108
Mon Jun 29 2020
Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational linguistics: PhD, University of Jena
Editor for this issue: Becca Morris <beccalinguistlist.org>
Date: 29-Jun-2020
From: Diana Forker <diana.forker
uni-jena.de>
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational linguistics: PhD, University of Jena, Germany
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https://www.jsec.uni-jena.de/liberty Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: University of Jena
Duties: Research,Project Work
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description:
The interdisciplinary research project ''Global knowledge transfer and translocal paradoxes'' at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena invites applications for a doctoral fellowship (3 years).
The doctoral fellow is expected to make a significant contribution to the research programme of the centre as specified below, and to write a dissertation on a relevant topic.
The linguistic subproject on ''Transfer of linguistic technologies and resources'' focuses on the transfer from high resource languages to low resource languages. This concerns the creation of linguistic corpora of smaller national languages using computer-aided methods (e.g. automated structural and semantic annotations, automatic translation), e.g. in the context of political discourse. In cooperation with other sub-projects, interdisciplinary, comparative corpus-based case studies on topics such as ''digitalization'', ''freedom'' or ''pandemic management'' will be carried out, for instance using topic modeling and sentiment analysis.
Tasks and deliverables:
- PhD dissertation
- Creation of annotated corpora of low resource languages
- Training of annotation and translation models for these languages
- Interdisciplinary case studies on topics that are of interest to the research centre
- Participation in the preparation of funding applications
Requirements:
- Degree in general or computational linguistics, or the linguistics of a specific language
- Experience with work on multilingual corpora (annotation and analysis)
- Experience with word embeddings
- Experience with semantic text modeling (e.g. topic modeling, sentiment analysis)
- Solid knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g. Java, Python, R)
- Experience with version control systems
- Interest in research data management (e.g. reproducibility, FAIRness)
Applications should include a CV, a sample of written work, an exposé for a PhD project and (optionally) letters of reference.
Please send your applications by email to susanne.buechner
uni-jena.de.
If you have any questions concerning the application, please get in touch with diana.forker
uni-jena.de or volker.gast
uni-jena.de
Project summary: ''Global knowledge transfer and translocal paradoxes''
Globalisation is generally seen as both a cause and a consequence of increasing spatial mobility. This mobility involves various forms of transfer: the transfer of knowledge and norms in socio-cultural life as well as science and technology. The aim of the project is to analyse such global exchange processes. It will examine their conditions and consequences as well as the actors involved, in current and historical terms, from a conceptual and empirical perspective. The main focus is on the manifold tensions and paradoxes associated with cultural and regional differentiation on the one hand, and global connectedness on the other. Two types of paradoxes will figure centrally: (i) those that arise as a result of the (often asymmetrical) exchange processes between regional and cultural spaces; and (ii) those that arise within such spaces or societies as a result of said processes.
Applications Deadline: 20-Jul-2020
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Diana Forker
Jenergasse 8
Jena 07743
Germany
Web Address for Applications:
https://www.jsec.uni-jena.de/liberty Contact Information:
Diana Forker
diana.forker
uni-jena.de
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