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

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Subject: 30.452, Support: Computational Linguistics; Computer Science: PhD, Ghent University - Hasselt University

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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:06:45
From: Miriam Bouzouita [miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Computer Science: PhD, Ghent University - Hasselt University, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Ghent University - Hasselt University 
Department:  
Web Address: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/scientific/phd-scholarship-in-computer-science-human-computer-9uyx1 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
Computer Science 

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) and UHasselt (Expertise Centre for
Digital Media). The PhD topic is part of a Hercules (FWO) project and focuses
on design and realisation of “Games with a purpose/Serious games” with
applications in the domain of Spanish dialectology-Natural Language
Processing. The starting date is as soon as possible.

Description of the 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 ‘Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural
Spanish’; 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 members of the public contribute
to the co-creation of the parsed corpus by providing annotations in the
context of a game.

Requirements:
- MSc in Computer Science or Civil Engineer (or equivalent).
- The candidate should have outstanding academic skills and a clear interest
in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research.
- The candidate has extensive knowledge and a great interest in software
development, because software development of gaming applications is done
throughout the research trajectory. 
- The candidate should be able to work independently as well as in a
multidisciplinary team and will be guided by advisors with a computer
science/HCI background (UHasselt) and with a background in 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 and the activities to perform
during the PhD trajectory, 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 2 after a positive evaluation.

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
the 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. Those who have applied previously do not need
to resubmit their application as they will be considered.
 

Application Deadline: 07-Feb-2019 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/scientific/phd-scholarship-in-computer-science-human-computer-9uyx1 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Miriam Bouzouita 
	miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be  


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