28.4229, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Paris Diderot

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:07:35
From: Ewan Dunbar [ewan.dunbar at univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Paris Diderot, France

 
University or Organization: Université Paris Diderot 
Job Location: Paris, France 
Job Title: Postdoctoral fellow
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Machine learning


Description:

Part of a two-year experimental/computational phonology research project on
phonological inventories (GEOMPHON : PI: Ewan Dunbar).  The project aims to
explain why the sound inventories of human languages show typological
tendencies toward being phonetically coherent in various geometrically
definable ways; a classical example of this is "economy," whereby the
contrasts found in inventories appear to exploit surprisingly
small-dimensional feature sub-spaces; others have been discovered more
recently (Dunbar and Dupoux 2016, Frontiers in Psychology).

Perceptual and artificial language experiments will test synchronic
explanations of these tendencies. Experimental analyses will be extensively
tested and validated on the basis of piloting and simulated data in advance.

Unsupervised speech representation learning will be explored, inspired by
these typological tendencies, evaluated by matching their behaviour against
the results of new data from the perceptual experiments.

The main host laboratory, the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF), is
an interdisciplinary research laboratory linked to the Department of
Linguistics (UFR Linguistique) at the Université Paris Diderot. The LLF brings
together researchers from computational, experimental, theoretical, and
descriptive linguistics. The project is a collaboration with the Laboratoire
des Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP) at the École Normale
Supérieure (affiliated project members : Emmanuel Dupoux, Sharon Peperkamp).

LLF and LSCP are high quality, complementary, environments for the development
of researchers specializing in computational or experimental approaches to
speech, between them having top-tier expertise in psycholinguistics
(developmental and adult), phonetics and phonology, natural language
processing, unsupervised speech recognition, language typology, and corpora,
both textual and speech. Adjoining labs have expertise and empirical resources
in the neural basis of audition. The CoML team (Cognitive Machine Learning:
http://www.syntheticlearner.net/), of which the unsupervised speech postdoc
would be a member, organizes the biannual ZeroSpeech Unsupervised Speech
Challenge.

Requirements:

- the ideal candidate for the experimental postdoc position will have a strong
background in experimental linguistics, in phonetics, in phonology, and in
statistics.
- the ideal candidate for the unsupervised speech recognition postdoc position
will have a large amount of experience in machine learning applied to speech,
and in constructing cognitively meaningful model evaluations.

The postdoc will have defended their dissertation by the start date (April 1,
2018). The start date is somewhat flexible. The submission deadline is strict
and urgent, since visa processing can take some time for non-EU applicants.

Salary: Net (after deductions) roughly € 2500 per month.

Duration: Experimental phonology: 12 months, with possible extension for an
additional 12 months. Unsupervised speech recognition postdoc: 12 months, with
possible extension for an additional 3 months.

To apply, send an email with the following:
- an attached CV
- an attached brief combined cover letter/statement of interest/brief research
statement situating the position within the postdoc's own research goals
- names and emails of your recommendation letter writers

Have at least two and no more than three letters of reference sent
independently to the same address.



Application Deadline: 05-Nov-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: ewan.dunbar at univ-paris-diderot.fr 
Contact Information:
	Ewan Dunbar 
	Email: ewan.dunbar at univ-paris-diderot.fr 


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