22.2296, Support: German & Comp Ling: PhD Student, Uni of Zurich, Switzerland

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Subject: 22.2296, Support: German & Comp Ling: PhD Student, Uni of Zurich, Switzerland

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Date: 30-May-2011
From: Stefan Hoefler [hoefler at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: German, Standard & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland
 

	
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 15:30:09
From: Stefan Hoefler [hoefler at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: German, Standard & Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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Institution/Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland 
Department: Institute of Computational Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.cl.uzh.ch 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): German, Standard (deu)

Description:

The Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zürich
is looking for a PhD student to carry out research in the project
"Automated Detection of Styleguide Violations in Legislative Drafts".

The project aims at developing methods and tools for automated style
checking in the domain of legislative editing.

Qualifications:

- Licentiate or Master degree in Computational Linguistics or a related field
- Languages: good command of German and English
- Good programming skills

The PhD student will be expected to work closely with the members of
our team on:

- Processing (tokenizing, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, ...) Swiss
legislative texts written in German
- Building an annotated corpus of Swiss legislative texts
- Implementing a user-friendly front-end for a legislative style checker
- Developing strategies for the detection of specific components of
legislative texts

Benefits:

- Scholarship according to the Swiss National Science Foundation rules
(40,000 CHF - 46,000 CHF annually)
- Additional earnings through teaching assignments possible
- Support for conference and summer school attendance
- Small and enthusiastic team
- High standard of living in one of the most attractive European cities: Zurich

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Hess
Project leader: Dr. Stefan Hoefler

The position can be filled immediately and has secured funding for 36 months.

Please send your CV, your academic record and a short letter of
interest by 22 June 2011 to:

Dr. Stefan Hoefler (stefan.hoefler at uzh.ch) 

Application Deadline: 22-Jun-2011 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr. Stefan Hoefler 
	University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics 
	Binzmuehlestrasse 14 
	Zurich CH-8050 
	Switzerland 	
	
Contact Information: 
	Dr. Stefan Hoefler 
	stefan.hoefler at uzh.ch  






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