29.4902, Support: Spanish; Computational Linguistics; Computer Science: PhD, Ghent University - Hasselt University

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Subject: 29.4902, Support: Spanish; Computational Linguistics; Computer Science: PhD, Ghent University - Hasselt University

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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:00:51
From: Miriam Bouzouita [miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be]
Subject: Spanish; Computational Linguistics; Computer Science: PhD, Ghent University - Hasselt University, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Ghent University - Hasselt University 
Department:  

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
Computer Science 
Required Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Description:

In the context of a research infrastructure project, a scholarship is offered
for a PhD student in Computer Science to join the multidisciplinary research
collaboration between UGent (ΔiaLing-LT3) & UHasselt (Expertise Centre for
Digital Media). The research is part of a Hercules (FWO) project (see below)
and focuses on design and realisation of “Games with a purpose/Serious games”
with applications in the domain of Spanish dialectology and Natural Language
Processing.

Description of the Hercules project:
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until
recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of
these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely unexplored, despite the
recent surge in interest in dialect grammars. This is due to the lack of large
annotated dialectal corpora. This project aims to fill this lacuna and will
create the first morphosyntactically annotated and parsed corpus of the
European Spanish dialects. This dialect corpus will be designed in a
geographically balanced way and its material will proceed from the COSER
corpus (Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural; www.corpusrural.es), which is
the largest collection of oral data in the Spanish-speaking world. As
transcribing and annotating are expensive and labour-intensive, this project
takes a collaborative game-based approach to building the parsed corpus of
European Spanish dialects. In other words, a crowdsourced game will be built
through which the public contributes to the co-creation of the parsed corpus
by providing annotations in the context of a game.

Requirements:
- A Master degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
- Outstanding academic skills, and a clear interest in Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) research.
- Extensive knowledge and a great interest in software development, because
software development of gaming applications is done throughout the research
trajectory. 
- Ability to work independently as well as in a multidisciplinary team, and
will be guided by advisors with a background in computer science/HCI
(UHasselt) and (computational) linguistics (UGent). Therefore, the candidate
will spend time in both host universities.

Additional elements:
- It is a strong advantage if the candidate has received training and/or
gained experience in HCI topics related to end-user interaction and
motivation, user-centred design approaches, prototyping and evaluation
techniques.
- Experience developing applications for mobile devices as well as game
development is a plus. A possible category of games that is envisioned in the
research are 2D online games. 
- Due to the application domain of the project, having advanced knowledge of
the Spanish language is highly desirable.

The successful candidate is appointed for 2 years and the scholarship is
prolonged for another 2y after a positive evaluation. The envisaged starting
date is February 1st 2019.

How to apply: 
The application in English should include
- A motivation letter, summarizing the candidate’s background and
capabilities, and describing his/her motivation for this position
- Attested copies of education certificates, and a list of master courses with
grades obtained
- An extensive CV
- Contact information (e-mail) of potential referees

Applications are to be sent by e-mail to Prof. Dr Miriam Bouzouita
(Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be) and Dr Gustavo Rovelo
gustavo.roveloruiz at uhasselt.be. 
Deadline: see below. 

Contact persons for more information: 
- For general information about the project: Prof. Dr Miriam Bouzouita (PI):
Miriam.Bouzouita at UGent.be
- For job specifications: Prof. Dr Karin Coninx karin.coninx at uhasselt.be or
Dr. Gustavo Rovelo gustavo.roveloruiz at uhasselt.be
 

Application Deadline: 07-Jan-2019 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Miriam Bouzouita 
	Blandijnberg 2 
	Ghent East Flanders 9000 
	Belgium 
	
Contact Information: 
	Miriam Bouzouita 
	miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be  


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