33.818, Support: Luxembourgish; Germanic; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, Université du Luxembourg

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Subject: 33.818, Support: Luxembourgish; Germanic; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, Université du Luxembourg

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:14:38
From: Peter Gilles [peter.gilles at uni.lu]
Subject: Luxembourgish; Germanic; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics: PhD, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 Institution/Organization: Université du Luxembourg 
Department: Department of Humanities 
Web Address: https://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fhse/dhum 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics 
 
Required Language(s): Luxembourgish (ltz)

                      Germanic 

Description:

PhD position in Linguistics/Automatic Speech Recognition

Your Role: 
The doctoral candidate will be a member of the Department of Humanities /
Institute for Luxembourgish language and literatures. S/he will work under the
supervision of Prof. Dr Peter Gilles.

Your tasks: 
 - Research in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the
low-resource language Luxembourgish
 - Develop concepts and experiments for the use of ASR tools in linguistic
research (e.g. for linguistic fieldwork, forced alignment,
query-by-keyword/query-by-example)
 - Communicating with external partners
 - Administrative responsibilities within the project and the research group
 - Publications (in peer-reviewed journals and at scientific conferences)
 - Enrolment in the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

What we expect from you: 
 - Excellent Masters degree (or equivalent) in Linguistics, Computational
Linguistics or a related field
 - Good knowledge of and interest in data sciences and machine learning
methods (Deep Learning, ASR, NLP, transformers, Kaldi, wav2vec2, Python)
 - Involvement into teaching to a limited extent
 - Language skills: English. Competencies in Luxembourgish and/or German are
considered an advantage
 - Last but not least, enthusiasm about, high commitment for, and enjoyment in
research and science

We offer: 
 - Participation in a committed, and dynamically developing team
 - Excellent research and funding conditions on a personal and a research
level at an international and multilingual university
 - Good and intensive supervision on a personal level

In Short: 
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract 36 months (extendable up to 48 months if
required)
Work Hours: Full Time 40.0 Hours per Week
Starting date: As soon as possible
Employee and student status
Location: Belval
Job Reference: UOL04798
The yearly gross salary for every PhD at the UL is 37 101,36 € (full time)

Please apply via the application link below. 
 

Web Address for Applications: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2z2w3 

Contact Information: 
	Peter Gilles
	peter.gilles at uni.lu  


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