<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br></div><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple">Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Computer Science. The appointee will have expertise in computational linguistics and will work on a research programme entitled “<span lang="EN-US">Using the Oxford Children’s Corpus to explore children's literacy development: an inter-disciplinary approach”.</span></div>
<div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><ul><li>full time</li><li>12 months appointment</li><li>closing date: 3rd October 2013 (Noon, BST)</li><li>interviews: week beginning 31 October 2013</li></ul></div><div>
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We hope the appointee will be able to take up the post in early January 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter. <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class=""><u></u></p>
</div><div><p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">It is expected that the appointee will have an undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g., Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics) and a post-graduate qualification to at least Masters-level in a relevant topic. They will have expertise in analysing large corpora to explore linguistic phenomena. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The appointee is expected to take the lead in delivering the programme of research, working with the Principal Investigators: </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor Kate Nation (Department of Experimental Psychology),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Victoria Murphy (Department of Education)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor Stephen Pulman (Department of Computer Science). </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Oxford Children’s Corpus is a large, representative corpus of children’s written language, comprising many millions of words, sampled from material written for children (including fiction, curriculum material, websites, magazines) and by children themselves. It is has been developed by Oxford University Press. This project will use the corpus to examine a variety of lexical phenomena including </span></div>
<div><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the identification of features of children’s reading experience that might relate to reading development, in particular, contextual diversity and semantic similarity and </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the examination of collocation patterns in children’s own writing.</span><br></li></ul></div><u></u><p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Further information about the Principal Investigators can be found at their websites:</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nation:<span style="color:red"> </span><a href="http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/</a></span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Murphy:<span style="color:red"> </span><a href="http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/" target="_blank">http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pulman:<span style="color:red"> </span><a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><u></u>See also <span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_">http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_</a></span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:underline">university/jobs/</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt"> </span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom:4pt"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11pt">Responsibilities/duties </span></h3>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:3pt">1. Work collaboratively with the Principal
Investigators, their research groups and with Oxford University Press.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:2pt">2. Devise methods for analysing the corpus
so as to address research questions.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:2pt">3. Analyse data and prepare reports
detailing findings.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:2pt">4. Assist with the general administration of
the project.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:2pt">5. Contribute to and assist with organising
a seminar series associated with the project.</p>
<p class="">6. A willingness to collect and analyse behavioural data to complement
corpus data.</p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Selection
criteria</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11pt">Essential</span></h3>
<p class="">1. An
undergraduate qualification (2.1 or above, or equivalent) in a relevant subject
such as Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics. </p>
<p class="">2. A postgraduate
qualification to at least Masters level in a relevant subject.</p>
<p class="">3. An
understanding of computational linguistics, machine learning techniques and
corpus analysis.</p>
<p class="">4. Experience in
using corpus tools such as the IMS corpus workbench.</p>
<p class="">5. Experience with
one or more scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python), preferably in a Linux
environment.</p>
<p class="">6. An
understanding of experimental design and statistics.</p>
<p class="">7. An interest in
understanding lexical processing, language development and related theoretical
topics.</p>
<p class="">8. A publication
and dissemination record commensurate with stage of career.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:11pt">Desirable</span></h3>
<p class="">1. A PhD in a
relevant subject.</p>
<p class="">2. Expertise in
psycholinguistics, especially with respect to written language and its
development.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt">Working at the University of Oxford</span></h2>
<p class="">For further information about working at Oxford, please see: </p>
<p class=""><span style="color:red"><a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/">www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/</a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:11pt">How</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">to apply</span></h2>
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