31.2109, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: PhD, University of Jena

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Subject: 31.2109, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: PhD, University of Jena

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:08:36
From: Diana Forker [diana.forker at uni-jena.de]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: PhD, University of Jena, Germany

 Institution/Organization: University of Jena 
Department:  
Web Address: https://www.jsec.uni-jena.de/liberty 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 
 

Description:

The interdisciplinary research project ''Spheres of liberty and the protection
of freedom in the European state'' at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
invites applications for a doctoral fellowship (3 years).

The doctoral fellow is expected to make a significant contribution to the
research programme of the centre as specified below, and to write a
dissertation on a relevant topic.

The linguistic sub-project on ''The blessings and curses of the digital era''
investigates public discourse centering around attitudes towards
digitalization and its relation to personal and political freedom. The studies
will be corpus-based, e.g. using multilingual parliamentary corpora of
European languages
(https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OA
KN) and possibly additional newspaper and Twitter corpora.

Tasks and deliverables:
- PhD dissertation
- Creation of annotated parliamentary corpora
- Interdisciplinary case studies on the relationship between digitalization
and freedom
- Participation in the preparation of funding applications

Requirements:
- Degree in general linguistics, or the linguistics of a specific language
- Experience with work on multilingual corpora
- Solid knowledge of statistical methods of corpus analysis
- Interest in research data management

Applications should include a CV, a sample of written work, an exposé for a
PhD project and (optionally) letters of reference.

Please send your applications by email to susanne.buechner at uni-jena.de. The
deadline is July, 20, 2020.

If you have any questions concerning the application, please get in touch with
diana.forker at uni-jena.de or volker.gast at uni-jena.de

Project summary: ''Spheres of liberty and the protection of freedom in the
European state''
While the long-term consequences of the digital revolution are not yet fully
understood, there is no doubt that modern societies face several political,
economic and social challenges coming with technological progress in the
domain of artificial intelligence. This concerns, among other things, the
operation of the state under conditions of digitalization. On the one hand,
the state is challenged by globally operating IT companies, resulting in
significant enforcement deficits. On the other hand, the use of artificial
intelligence enables the state to exercise control over citizens and
companies. The project deals with these challenges from a legal, sociological
and economic point of view, in several interconnected sub-projects from
various fields.
 

Application Deadline: 20-Jul-2020 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Diana Forker 
	Jenergasse 8 
	Jena 07743 
	Germany 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jsec.uni-jena.de/liberty 

Contact Information: 
	Diana Forker 
	diana.forker at uni-jena.de  


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