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<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Collaborative
Research Center (CRC) 1102/Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1102</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class="">“<span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Information
Density and Linguistic Encoding”</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saarland University, Germany</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><font class="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="en-US" class="">The
DFG-funded CRC </span></font><font class="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="en-US" class=""><i class="">Information
Density and Linguistic Encoding</i></span></font><font class="" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="en-US" class="">
(SFB 1102) is pleased to invite applications for a range of PhD and
post-doctoral positions. The CRC’s research projects jointly
address the hypothesis that language variation and language use can
be better understood in terms of the goal of speakers to modulate the
amount of information conveyed in an utterance. More specifically, a
wide range of linguistic, psycholinguistic and computational methods
will be brought to bear in explaining the multitude of choices
speakers make regarding when they encode their messages – from the
choice of words, structuring of syntactic elements, and arranging
sentences in discourse.</span></font><br></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Processing
linguistic material has been shown to be correlated with its
contextually determined predictability and may be appropriately
indexed by Shannon’s notion of information. The CRC investigates
the hypothesis that (i) processing complexity is indexed by </span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Surprisal</i></span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">
across linguistic levels, and (ii) that variation in language use may
be characterized by the optimal distribution of information across
the linguistic signal. </span></font>
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">The
CRC includes 14 research projects drawing upon psycholinguistics,
computational linguistics, diachronic sociolinguistics, phonetics,
discourse and contrastive linguistics. We are seeking to recruit 6
Postdocs and 16 PhD students. </span></font>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Dates</i></span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">:
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<li class="" style=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">application
deadline: July 5, 2014</i></span></font></div>
</li><li class="" style=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">interviews:
July 14-25, 2014</i></span></font></div>
</li><li class="" style=""><div style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">starting
date: Oct 1, 2014</i></span></font></div>
</li></ul><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Employment
requirements are a PhD (for Postdoc position) or MA/MSc (for PhD
position). Note that we are happy to receive applications by people
who have not yet finished their MA/MSc or PhD by the time of
application but will have submitted their thesis by the starting
date. Applicants are requested to submit their application, together
with an academic CV, a list of academic publications, copies of
academic degree certificates and two potential references.</span></font></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><a name="_GoBack" class="" style="" href=""></a><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">For
details on the individual projects and positions see:
<a href="http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/" class="" style="">www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de</a>
Applications must be sent directly to the lead PI of the particular
project you wish to apply to. You may apply to more than one
project/position - please indicate this in each of your applications
by stating the relevant project number(s) and giving an order of
preference.</span></font></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Saarland
University offers a lively academic environment that is famous for
its interdisciplinary research in language and computation. In CRC
1102, we entertain active collaborative links with the Department of
Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max
Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Institute for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as well as the Cluster of Excellence
</span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style=""><i class="" style="">Multimodal Computing
and Interaction</i></span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">
(M2CI: <a href="http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/" class="" style="">http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/</a>).</span></font></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.35cm" class=""><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">Saarland
University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women
are strongly</span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">
</span></font><font size="2" class="" style=""><span lang="en-US" class="" style="">encouraged;
applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment
to those of other candidates with equal qualifications.</span></font></div><div class="" style="">
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