31.3867, Jobs: English; Polish; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Birmingham

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Subject: 31.3867, Jobs: English; Polish; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Birmingham

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:20:13
From: Emma Hough [e.l.hough at bham.ac.uk]
Subject: English; Polish; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Birmingham, UK

University or Organization: University of Birmingham 
Department: Department of Modern Languages
Job Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Web Address: https://outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/
Job Title: Research Assistant - Applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) Specialist
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Polish (pol) 

Description:

Department of Modern Languages, College of Arts and Law

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK (Remote working
considered)

Full Time

Fixed term from January 2021 to 31 December 2021 (12 months)

Grade 6 

Starting salary between £27,511 and £30,046

Closing date - January 10th 2021

Background :
The College of Arts & Law is seeking to appoint an Applied Natural Language
Processing (NLP) Specialist, with experience in using Machine Learning (ML)
techniques. The successful applicant will run computational simulations of
real-life language learning problems, using existing algorithms, and focus on
the cognitive plausibility of the linguistic input and output. The aim of
these simulations is the generate, in collaboration with a linguist on the
team, novel teaching materials for use in classroom intervention studies. 

The project is led by Prof Dagmar Divjak in collaboration with Dr Petar Milin.
More information about the project is available at the department link above.

Summary of Role:
- Work within the Out of Our Minds team to prepare their findings for testing
and use in classroom settings 
- Lead on the NLP/ML side of the application, and apply ideas to both real
data (e.g., language corpora) and idealized language learning problems (e.g.,
artificial language designs)
- Analyse and interpret the findings of the NLP/ML applications and prepare
technical reports, summarizing the obtained results
- Communicate technical reports to the linguists and psychologists on the team
with the aim to facilitate the development of new teaching practices and
classroom interventions
- Assist the linguist in developing teaching materials on the basis of the
computational findings, e.g. by retrieving examples from the data

Main Duties / Responsibilities:
- NLP: prepare raw corpora for computational modelling using existing tools
for annotation, tagging, lemmatization etc.
- Run computational models (i.e. simulations) of language processing using a
range of machine learning and cognitive modelling techniques 
- Actively contribute to the interpretation of the results of the
computational simulations and (advanced) statistical analyses.
- In collaboration with a linguist, prepare the output in a way that can be
used as classroom teaching materials.
- Record, analyse, and write up the results of the technical work, maintaining
a permanent record of the applied machine learning and cognitive modelling
techniques.
- Apply version control essential for data preparation, curation and open
access archiving.
- If needed, assist with a range of research software engineering tasks, such
as optimization, parallelization, use of GPUs, scaling-up etc.
- Plan own workload within the project timetable to ensure that the overall
project milestones and objectives are met, and highlight any problems in
advance.
- Contribute to the overall activities of the research team.
- Carry out clerical duties relating to the organization of the project as
required.
- Any other duties, commensurate with the grade of the post as assigned by the
line manager or their nominee.

Applications must be submitted via the University of Birmingham jobs site,
found at the application link provided below. 

Informal enquiries should be directed to Professor Dagmar Divjak or Dr Petar
Milin at the contact information below.

More information about the Out of our Minds project can be found here: 
https://outofourminds.bham.ac.uk

Please note - we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this post

Application Deadline: 10-Jan-2021 

Web Address for Applications: https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=200002NJ&tz=GMT+00:00&tzname=Europe/London 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Divjak
	Email: ooominds at oominds.org 

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