31.1177, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Tours

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Subject: 31.1177, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Tours

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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:18:26
From: Agata Savary [agata.savary at univ-tours.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Tours, France

 Institution/Organization: University of Tours 
Department: LIFAT 
Web Address: https://lifat.univ-tours.fr/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 

Description:

The Universities of Tours and Orléans in France offer a PhD position in
computational linguistics:

**Design and automatic induction of a multiword expression lexicon at the
service of linguistic diversity**

This PhD position addresses one of the major challenges in CL:​ multi word
expressions (MWEs). MWEs such as ​to pay a visit​, ​to pull one’s leg or ​the
die is cast​, are combinations of words exhibiting unexpected linguistic
behavior. Most prominently, they are semantically non-compositional, that is,
their meaning cannot be deduced from the meanings of their components and from
their syntactic structure in a way deemed regular. For instance,​ to pull
one's leg means 'to deceive someone playfully', which has few explicit links
with the component words ​pull and ​leg​. MWEs can also exhibit syntactic
irregularities, e.g. ​the die is cast (‘​a point of no-retreat has been
passed​’) allows no inflection of the noun (#​the dies are cast​) and no
active voice (# ​someone cast the die​). Violating these constraints leads to
the loss of the idiomatic reading.

More details about the position can be found at the web address for
applications below.

Application deadline at date below (or until filled).

 

Application Deadline: 14-May-2020 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr Agata Savary 
	3 place Jean-Jaurès 
	Blois 41000 
	France 
	
Web Address for Applications: http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/ICVL/doc/jobs/2020-PhD-topic-MWE-lexicon-induction.pdf 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Agata Savary 
	agata.savary at univ-tours.fr  


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