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<b>Research Fellow in Linguistics <br>
</b>Department of Humanities, University of Pavia (Italy)<br><br>
The Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, invites applications
for a full-time, fixed term Research Fellow position on the project
<i>Argument Structure in Texts A Typological and Diachronic Research</i>
[Argumentstruktur in Texten. Typologische und diachrone
Korpusuntersuchungen ]' funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. <br><br>
The project aims to compare argument structure in typologically different
languages, and to develop tools for a quantitative analysis of the data
regarding argument structure. It is part of a joint venture with the
University of Erfurt. The part of the project to be developed in Pavia
consists in extending computational resources for Ancient Greek in
collaboration with other existing projects, and carrying out the
statistical evaluation of the data. In particular, current goals include:
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1. Expanding the Ancient Greek Treebank made available by the long-term
project Perseus.<br>
2. Acquiring other Treebanks by converting them into the Perseus standard
of annotation<br>
3. Studying the frequency and distribution of argument structure patterns
through time (from Homer to the New Testament).<br>
The web page of the project is at:<br>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home">
https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home</a><br><br>
The successful candidate should hold a PhD. Thorough understanding of the
Ancient Greek language, as well as basic knowledge of German and Italian
are required, as well as some experience with natural language processing
techniques and possibly some practical experience with annotation. There
may also be an opportunity to collaborate with the Department’s staff as
teaching assistant, if this is jointly considered desirable.<br><br>
The start date will be 01 September 2012. The post is available for up to
two years. The salary for the first year is 19,367.00 Euros. <br><br>
Informal enquiries about this position should be made to Prof. Silvia
Luraghi (<a href="mailto:keller@inf.ed.ac.uk">luraghi@unipv.it</a>)<br>
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The full anouncement and the application form can be downloaded at:<br>
<a href="http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html">
http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html</a><br>
(Fluency in Italian is not a requirement, nevertheless the application
must be written in Italian.)<br>
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<b>Deadline for application: 14 June 2011 (the application must be
received by the administrative office at the University of Pavia by this
date).<br><br>
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Silvia Luraghi<br>
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica <br>
Università di Pavia<br>
Strada Nuova 65<br>
I-27100 Pavia<br>
telef.: +39-0382-984685<br>
fax: +39-0382-984487<br>
silvia.luraghi@unipv.it<br>
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