31.2143, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, University of Oslo

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Subject: 31.2143, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, University of Oslo

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:50:12
From: Dag Haug [daghaug at ifikk.uio.no]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: Post Doc, University of Oslo, Norway

 
University or Organization: University of Oslo 
Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
Job Location: Oslo, Norway 
Web Address: https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/
Job Title: Postdoc in (Computational) Semantics
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Semantics 


Description:

The Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is funded by the Norwegian Research
Council and is associated with the project Universal Natural Language
Understanding. The overall goal of the project is to create semantic
representations in the form of Discourse Representation Structures from
Universal Dependencies syntax trees, by using both rule-based techniques from
Glue Semantics and (neural) machine learning approaches in a process that
normalizes the syntax trees, rewrites the nodes as lambda terms in a
course-grained, language-independent manner and composes them. In addition,
the project will do language-specific enrichment of the resulting semantic
representations based on available lexical resources for Norwegian.
Prospective applicants who want to know more about the project should contact
the PI, Professor Dag Haug.

The postdoc will be part of the project's core team together with a PhD
fellow, a research programmer and the PI. The candidate is expected to
contribute to building the overall system and to conduct research closely
connected to the main project. It is essential for the project that the team
as group is competent in both theoretical and computational approaches to
semantics.

The position is available for a period of 3 years. There is a 10 % component
of the position which is devoted to teaching and administrative duties.

The successful candidate is expected to become part of the research
environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The
main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers
for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.



Application Deadline: 10-Sep-2020 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/188459/post-doctoral-research-fellowship-in-computational-semantics 
Contact Information:
	Prof Dag Haug 
	Email: daghaug at ifikk.uio.no 


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