[Corpora-List] Ph.D. position in computational linguistics in Groningen

[Gertjan van Noord]

We are happy to announce a Ph.D. position in computational 
linguistics.

All information can be found at 
http://www.rug.nl/corporate/vacatures/vacaturesRUG

PhD position Computational Linguistics
Vacancy number 212038
We welcome research project proposals in computational linguistics, in 
particular proposals in (1) automated syntactic analysis of Dutch; 
and (2) employing large scale automatically parsed corpora of Dutch.
The Alpino parser has been used to analyze very large corpora of 
Dutch fully automatically. These corpora have been made available
in the Lassy project. This year, we are particularly interested 
in research projects which employ such large parsed corpora to study 
linguistic issues, applying and extending methodology from corpus 
linguistics. Proposals in this direction may exploit cooperation 
with the syntax/semantics research group of the CLCG.

We also welcome research proposals to improve the automated syntactic 
analysis of Dutch. In this direction, there are challenges in the 
area of parsing transcribed speech, sentence-internal discourse 
structure, reported speech, fragmentary input, interjections, etc. 
In this area it may be possible to propose an alternative syntactic 
model in which a manually developed rule based model for headed 
constructions (as provided by theories such as HPSG) is augmented 
with grammatical rules of a simpler kind which are learnt by means of 
data-driven techniques. Proposals in this direction may exploit 
cooperation with the discourse/communication research group of 
the CLCG. 

The PhD project will be supervised by Prof. Gertjan van Noord.

Links: 
http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/alp/Alpino
http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/Lassy

_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora