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<p><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Two Marie Curie PhD
Scholarships in Semantic Annotation of Corpora and
Multimodal Communication at the University of Copenhagen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US">Application deadline March
15, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Graduate School of the
Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Language Technology, under the
Faculty
of Humanities is inviting applications for two PhD scholarships in
semantic
annotation of corpora and multimodal communication starting September
1, 2010
for a period of up to three years. The positions involve participation
in the
EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications,
which is a
Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from European
Commission’s 7<sup>th</sup> Framework Programme (</span><a
href="http://clara.uib.no"><span style="" lang="EN-US">http://clara.uib.no</span></a><span
style="" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span
style=""> </span></span><a
href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/</span></a><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The applicants can not be a
Danish citizen, except</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">
if the applicants have legally resided and had his/her main activity in
a
non–associated third country for at least three of the last four years
immediately prior to his/her employment.</span><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"> Further, applicants must not have resided or
performed their main activity in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1:country-region> more than 12 months
in the
3 year period immediately prior to the start date of the PhD
scholarship. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">Semantic Annotation
of Corpora<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">One PhD scholarship is announced within the CLARA
research area <i style="">S</i></span><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">emantic Annotation of Large Corpora</span></i><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">. Semantic corpus
annotation is moving into a new era where also lesser studied languages
can
provide the necessary background language resources required for the
task. </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="NO-BOK">S</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">emantic corpus annotation can provide the much wanted
synergy between large
text repositories and lexical-semantic resources and thereby make text
collections more accessible for different kinds of </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="NO-BOK">humanities</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB"> researchers. The overall aim of this CLARA research area
is to</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="NO-BOK"> investigate </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">(i) to which degree current wordnets </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="NO-BOK">(currently available for around 60 languages) and other
lexical semantic
resources </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-GB">are suitable as lexical semantic resources for automatic
annotation of
large, varied corpora (written, spoken and visual) and (ii) to which
degree
resources and tools for corpus annotation are transferable between
languages.
The research project will include the study of cross- and multilingual
aspects
of semantic corpus annotation and the possibility of technological
transfer
between languages</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="NO-BOK">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PhD project should
focus on one or more of these aspects of semantic corpus annotation,
and the
PhD scholar should relate to relevant lexical resources (computational
lexicons
and/or wordnets) and corpora for the particular language(s) the he or
she
wishes to work with. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">Multimodal Communication Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">Another
PhD Scholarship involves participation in the CLARA subproject <i
style="">Multimedia and Multimodal Communication
Modeling,</i> which is a cooperation between the University of
Copenhagen and
Max Planck Institute, Germany. The overall goal of the subproject is to
study
human communicative multimodal behavior empirically.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">The
objective of the PhD project is to produce insight on essential aspects
of
multimodal behavior such as feedback, dialogue management, information
structure and reference, by conducting empirical studies on audiovisual
corpora. Analysis methods will be based on manual annotation but also
on
automatic methods such as machine learning. Existing multimodal corpora
and/or
multimodal data annotated within the PhD project will be used to
produce
empirically-based evidence of how specific non-verbal behaviors are
used in
human communication. Relevant research issues are, for example, to
which extent
non-verbal behavior may be captured in formal categories that an
algorithm can
be trained to recognize; the importance of the cultural context in
interpreting
behavior;<span style=""> </span>or whether a universal core
can be defined for non-verbal behaviors, similarly to what certain
linguistic schools
have attempted to do for language. Analyses of multimodal communication
in
different cultural settings, communication situations and social
contexts are
also relevant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
lang="EN-US">For
the full calls, cf:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/">http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"
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Seniorforsker, ph.d., Bolette Sandford Pedersen
Center for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet
Njalsgade 140-142, DK-2300 København S
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