PhD post: Universit=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language acquisition, dialogue, semantics, machine learning

[Anne Abeillé]

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>> PhD post: Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language  
>> acquisition, dialogue, semantics, machine learning
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>> Applicants are invited for a full time PhD post to work within  
>> the  10-year project Labaratory of Excellence (LabEx) "Empirical  
>> foundations of linguistics" ( http://www.labex-efl.org/). The  
>> candidate will work in Strand 4: Language representation and  
>> processing in a  lifespan perspective.
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>> The successful applicant will be based at the Laboratoire de  
>> Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)  
>> ( http://www.llf.cnrs.fr ) . She or he should have  qualifications  
>> in linguistics, computer science, or psycholinguistics at the  
>> Master's level or equivalent.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Please attach with your application:
>> - letter of application
>> - CV
>> - two names of referees (with email address)
>> - web address with publications.
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>> Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg
>> Contact email: yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr
>> Duration:36 months starting september 2012
>> Salary: in accordance with the French state regulated PhD salary  
>> scale
>> Application deadline: 10/04/2012
>> Application email:  thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr
>> Application reference: EFL-OLA8
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>> Yonatan Ginzburg
>> yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr
>> https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanginzburgswebsite/
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