19.3904, Support: Hindi;Urdu & Comp Ling: PhD Student, U Colorado, Boulder

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Date: 18-Dec-2008
From: Bhuvana Narasimhan < Bhuvana.Narasimhan at colorado.edu >
Subject: Hindi;Urdu & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

 

	
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:20:39
From: Bhuvana Narasimhan [Bhuvana.Narasimhan at colorado.edu]
Subject: Hindi;Urdu & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Institution/Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder 
Department: Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): Hindi (hin)
                      Urdu (urd) 

Description:

3-year PhD position available in Computational Linguistics at the Department of
Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Start date: June or September, 2009 

The ideal candidate will have a Master's (or equivalent) degree in Computer
Science or Linguistics with native speaker fluency in Hindi/Urdu. Experience in
corpus linguistics desirable. The position entails working on creating a Hindi
Proposition Bank by tagging predicate-argument structures in a Hindi TreeBank
with sense tags and argument labels based on lexicon entries with
predicate-argument structure information (for publications relating to Propbank,
see: http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/publications.html). More information
about the department can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/. 

Interested candidates are invited to send a statement of research interests,
curriculum vitae, and three references (preferably by email) to the application
address/email addresses listed below.

Email: linguist at colorado.edu, Martha.Palmer at colorado.edu,
Bhuvana.Narasimhan at colorado.edu 

Application Deadline: 15-Feb-2009 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Martha Palmer, Bhuvana Narasimhan 
	Department of Linguistics, Hellems 290, 295 UCB 
	University of Colorado 
	Boulder CO 80309-0295 
	USA 	
	
Contact Information: 
	Prof. Martha Palmer 
	Martha.Palmer at colorado.edu
	Main office phone: (303) 492-8456
	Facsimile: (303) 492-4416  





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