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<div>PhD post: Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language
acquisition, dialogue, semantics, machine learning </div>
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<div>Applicants are invited for a full time PhD post to work
within the 10-year project Labaratory of Excellence (LabEx)
"Empirical foundations of linguistics" ( <a
href="http://www.labex-efl.org/">http://www.labex-efl.org/</a>).
The candidate will work in Strand 4: Language representation
and processing in a lifespan perspective.</div>
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<div>The successful applicant, who will be based at the
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université
Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) ( <a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr">http://www.llf.cnrs.fr</a>
) . She or he should have qualifications in linguistics,
computer science, or psycholinguistics at the Master's level
or equivalent.</div>
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<div>The thesis, which can be written in English, will involve
research within a project developing a model of language
acquisition that integrates parent-child interaction as part
of the primary data. The empirical basis will be corpus
studies of multimodal child-parent interaction. Modelling
will involve developing techniques that integrate dialogue
modelling and machine learning as the basis for a theory of
how grammar emerges at the very early stages of language
acquisition. Research will also involve development of
grammars for early child utterances and induction algorithms
that will allow such grammars to change on the basis of
interactions. The applicant will be working in an
international interdisciplinary research team.</div>
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<div>Applicants will be assessed by committee from the LabEx
EFL. The main emphasis of the assessment will be on the
applicant's potential for research, as evident from: Master's
thesis or other equivalent scholarly works. </div>
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<div>Please attach with your application: </div>
<div>- letter of application</div>
<div>- CV</div>
<div>- two names of referees (with email address)</div>
<div>- web address with publications. </div>
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<div>Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg</div>
<div>Contact email: yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr</div>
<div>Duration:36 months starting september 2012</div>
<div>Salary: in accordance with the French state regulated PhD
salary scale</div>
<div>Application deadline: 10/04/2012</div>
<div>Application email: thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr</div>
<div>Application reference: EFL-OLA8</div>
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<div>Yonatan Ginzburg</div>
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