29.2258, Support: General Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, Saarland University

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Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 12:00:14
From: Elke Teich [sfb1102 at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: General Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, Saarland University, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Saarland University 
Department: SFB 1102 Information Density & Linguistic Encoding 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Phonetics 

Description:

15 PhD positions available
The CRC Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (SFB 1102) is pleased to
invite applications for a range of PhD and post-doctoral positions available
for its second funding phase (7/2018-6/2022). The CRC’s research projects
jointly address the hypothesis that language variation and language use can be
better understood in terms of a speaker’s desire to rationally distribute
information across the linguistic signal. More specifically, a wide range of
linguistic, psycholinguistic and computational methods will be brought to bear
in explaining the multitude of choices speakers make when they encode their
messages – from the choice of words, structuring of syntactic elements, and
arranging sentences in discourse.

Processing linguistic material has been shown to be correlated with its
contextually determined predictability and may be appropriately indexed by
Shannon’s notion of information. The CRC investigates the hypothesis that (i)
processing complexity is indexed by Surprisal across linguistic levels, and
(ii) that variation in language use may be characterized by the optimal
distribution of information across the linguistic signal. 

The CRC includes 16 research projects drawing upon computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, diachronic linguistics, phonetics,
discourse linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translatology. We are
seeking to recruit 15 PhD students. 

Dates: 
- Application deadline: June 20, 2018
- Starting date: flexible

Employment requirements are a MA/MSc for PhD position. Note that we are happy
to receive applications by people who have not yet finished their MA/MSc by
the time of application but will have submitted their thesis by the starting
date or shortly thereafter. Applicants are requested to submit their
application, together with an academic CV, a list of academic publications,
copies of academic degree certificates and two potential references.

For details on the individual projects and positions see:
www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de Applications must be sent directly to the
application email provided below. You may apply to more than one
project/position - please indicate this in each of your applications by
stating the relevant project and position number(s) and specifying an order of
preference.

Saarland University offers a lively academic environment that is famous for
its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and
cognition. In CRC 1102, we entertain active collaborative links with the
Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI) as well as the Cluster of Excellence Multimodal Computing
and Interaction (M2CI: http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/).

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women
are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given
preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications.
 

Application Deadline: 20-Jun-2018 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Elke Teich 
	Saarland University, Campus Saarbrücken A2.2 
	Saarbrücken 
	Saarbrücken 66123 
	Germany 
	
Web Address for Applications: sfb1102uni-saarland.de 

Contact Information: 
	Prof Elke Teich 
	sfb1102 at uni-saarland.de 
	Phone:+49/681-302-4611 and 70070  


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