31.1776, Jobs: Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

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Subject: 31.1776, Jobs: Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

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Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 12:46:54
From: Frank Seifart [seifart at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology: Post Doc, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany

 
University or Organization: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) 
Job Location: Berlin, Germany 
Web Address: http://leibniz-zas.de/
Job Title: PostDoc in Language Documentation, Typology, Corpus Linguistics, and Archiving
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology; Language Archiving


Description:

The Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) invites applications
for one PostDocs position. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2020.

The position is part of the collaborative project “QUEST: Quality –
Established. Testing and applying curation criteria and quality standards for
audiovisual, annotated linguistic data". (see https://cutt.ly/quest). The
QUEST project develops – in consultation with the research community - quality
standards and curation criteria for annotated, audiovisual linguistic data and
develops and tests quality control procedures for the creation and curation of
such resources. QUEST focuses on digital research data collected through
language documentation and through research on multilingualism, but aims to
develop more widely applicable standards. QUEST will improve existing data
sets and future data collection procedures in terms of reproducibility of
research results and long-term accessibility and reusability, also for wider
scientific and non-scientific uses.

QUEST is carried out by a consortium of four German research institutions, in
collaboration with international partners. The applicant will contribute to
the subproject “AP 2.1 Kurationskriterien für sprachtypologische
Sekundärnutzung” carried out at the Leibniz-ZAS Berlin. Responsibilities
include the development of criteria for the curation of language documentation
data for cross-linguistic research, in particular annotated texts stemming
from fieldwork on small, often endangered languages, typically in ELAN format.
The aim of this subproject is to develop and establish a label for annotated
spoken corpora that certifies their usability for cross-linguistic corpus
research, allowing for the application of quantitative methods. Another aim of
the project at the Leibniz-ZAS Berlin in Berlin is to develop and carry out
exemplary cross-linguistic studies using QUEST data in collaboration with
project partners. The successful candidate will take over from the current
state of the project, in which documentations of individual corpora are being
prepared.

Within ZAS, the applicant will collaborate with the DoReCo project
(http://doreco.info/). Within the QUEST consortium, the applicant will
collaborate with the QUEST project partner projects in Hamburg, Cologne, and
Mannheim (see https://cutt.ly/quest).

We are looking for a person with experience in language documentation, corpus
building, language archiving, and in language typology and linguistic theory.
A working knowledge of German is a plus.

The PostDoc position commences on October 1, 2020, with a fixed term until
April 30, 2022. Please apply via Email until July, 1, 2020, with one single
pdf file, subject “QUEST application”, to both Frank Seifart
(seifart at leibniz-zas.de) and Manfred Krifka (krifka at leibniz-zas.de).

Your application should contain: 
- A cover letter that states in particular the nature of your interest in the
project and your expertise that you would contribute 
- Your CV with a list of your publications, 
- The names and e-mail addresses of two persons that would provide a reference
if so asked. 

ZAS is an equal opportunity employer.



Application Deadline: 01-Jul-2020 
	  
Email Address for Applications: seifart at leibniz-zas.de, krifka at leibniz-zas.de 
Contact Information:
	Dr Frank Seifart 
	Email: seifart at leibniz-zas.de 


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