25.5226, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PostDoc/Group Leader, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and University of Heidelberg

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Subject: 25.5226, Jobs: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PostDoc/Group Leader, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and University of Heidelberg

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:55:41
From: Andreas Witt [applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de]
Subject: German; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PostDoc/Group Leader, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and University of Heidelberg, Mannheim or Heidelberg, Germany

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University or Organization: Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and University of Heidelberg 
Department: Leibniz ScienceCampus and Department of Computational Linguistics
Job Location: Mannheim or Heidelberg, Germany 
Web Address: http://wisscamp.de/en/
Job Title: 3 PostDoc/Group Leader positions for a new Leibniz ScienceCampus
Job Rank: Post Doc; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): German (deu)

Description:

The Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, IDS) in
Mannheim and the Institute for Computational Linguistics (ICL) at Heidelberg
University will jointly establish the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Empirical
Linguistics and Computational Language Modeling". The Leibniz ScienceCampus
aims to conduct innovative research to support the high-quality automatic
annotation of large-scale corpus resources of German language through
induction of domain-, genre- and variety-adaptive natural language processing
models, to enable advanced empirical research in linguistics as well as
innovative applications in the humanities and the social sciences.

For more details on the Leibniz ScienceCampus, see http://wisscamp.de/en

The Institute of German Language (IDS) and the Institute of Computational
Linguistics (ICL) at Heidelberg University offer positions starting 1 April
2015 for three postdoctoral researchers or group leaders (Reference number:
2/2015) for the thematic areas:
- Natural language processing & annotation science
- Induction of (variational) linguistic models & resources
- Applications in empirical linguistics & Digital Humanities

Salary is based on Germany's academic salary level TV-L 13 or TV-L 14. The
weekly working hours correspond to 100% of the regular weekly working hours.
The vacancies are for an initial period of two years, with the possibility of
extension for further two years.

Responsibilities:

- Development of the scientific profile and of scientific achievements of the
research project, especially by contribution of excellent publishing
activities
- Co-advising of doctoral candidates
- Responsible participation in acquiring additional research projects for the
ScienceCampus
- Teaching activity in ICL’s computational linguistics study program (2 SWS -
weekly hours per semester)

Requirements:

Besides a successfully completed Ph.D. in computational linguistics or
computer science or in a specific field relating to linguistics or Digital
Humanities closely linked to the scientific profile of the ScienceCampus,
several of the following qualifications are required:

- Excellent publications with international visibility
- Outstanding qualifications in one or more of the following areas:
    - Statistics-based computational linguistics and Machine Learning
    - Corpus-linguistic procedures and text-technological modeling of
linguistic  
    data
    - Good programming skills, ideally experience with parallel computing and 
    large NLP architectures
- Ability to work in a team, outstanding commitment, openness, flexibility,
experience in coordinating research groups very welcome
- Good knowledge of the German language and excellent knowledge of the English
language

For more information please contact Prof. Anette Frank and Prof. Andreas Witt
at the email address below.

Application documents and application deadline:

Please forward your application including:

- Letter of motivation and areas of interest relating to the research program
of the ScienceCampus
- CV with information on publications and experiences
- Degrees/diplomas, when appropriate, references

to Prof. Anette Frank and Prof. Andreas Witt by 31 January 2015 exclusively in
electronic form. Please use the application email address below and make sure
that your application quotes the reference number and uses pdf format.

Applications will be accepted until the vacancies are filled.

See also http://wisscamp.de/en/category/postdoctoral_group_leader_positions/



Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2015 (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de 
Contact Information:
	Andreas Witt 
	Email: applications_lwc at cl.uni-heidelberg.de 





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