29.1954, Support: Computational Linguistics; Typology: PhD, Uppsala University

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Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 12:46:10
From: Harald Hammarström [harald at bombo.se]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Typology: PhD, Uppsala University, Sweden

 Institution/Organization: Uppsala University 
Department: Department of Linguistics and Philology 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Typology 
 

Description:

PhD position in Computational Linguistics/Linguistics, directed towards
Diversity Linguistics
Doctoral studies extend over a 4-year period during which the PhD-student will
receive a salary as an employee of the department. Doctoral students are
expected to engage in full-time study and research, and contribute to and
participate in the department’s activities. Teaching and/or administrative
tasks may be involved up to a maximum of 20%, which is carried out against an
appropriate prolongation of the contract.

Project description: 
This project will explore multilingual grammar extraction from descriptive
grammars for the languages of the world. Traditionally, researchers often
study the diversity of world’s languages by reading and comparing grammatical
descriptions manually. Nowadays, a large amount of linguistic descriptions and
books are easily available in digital formats, far exceeding the reading
capability of a human researcher. Text technology, i.e. computer-based text
management in natural language, is now powerful enough to potentially be used
to harvest facts at different levels of detail within a given domain (in this
case, information on world languages). In this project we want to utilize a
collection of 10,000 digitized grammatical descriptions covering over four
thousand languages in order to significantly expand the ability to make major
language comparisons. For this purpose, the project will develop methodologies
to enable computers to read grammatical descriptions and automatically extract
information (''linguistic facts''). We are to explore and develop a notion of
''language profile'', which is a structured digital collection and
representation of a language encapsulating all available knowledge about a
language extracted from various sources. The project involves collaboration
with Gothenburg University as well as with Leiden University and CNRS/Paris
via the related DReaM project. The project is funded by the Marcus and Amalia
Wallenberg foundation (MaW 2017.0105,
http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~harald/maw.html).

Qualifications: 
We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in computational
linguistics and/or diversity linguistics. To qualify for a doctoral position a
candidate should hold a master’s degree in General Linguistics or
Computational Linguistics or equivalent.

Application:
The application should contain:
- A letter of intent describing your research interests and motivation for PhD
studies (maximum one page)
- A CV containing (i) a description of your education in
linguistics/computational linguistics and other relevant areas including a
transcript of finished courses and their grades/dates, (ii) a list of any
academic publications, (iii) professional experience relevant to academic
research (maximum four pages)
- A copy of your MA thesis (or equivalent)
- A tentative research proposal which (i) states a research question which
falls within the project aims described above, (ii) describes the methodology
and work plan, and (iii) contextualises the expected results in relation to
the state of the art. The actual dissertation project of the successful
candidate will be worked out in collaboration with the supervisor and project
team. (four pages including references)
- Other documents which the applicant would like to adduce.

Salary: 
According to local agreement for PhD students and teaching assistants. The
current starting salary is 26100 SEK/month.

Starting date: 1 September 2018 or as per agreement.
For further information about the position please see the contact information
provided below. 
Please submit your application by 20 May 2018, UFV-PA 2018/1306.
 

Application Deadline: 20-May-2018 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/the-department/vacancies/?positionId=206934 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Harald Hammarström 
	harald.hammarstrom at lingfil.uu.se  


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