34.2007, Jobs: Cognitive Science: PhD in Russian Linguistics- ChatGPT Meets the Russian Constructicon, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Subject: 34.2007, Jobs: Cognitive Science: PhD in Russian Linguistics- ChatGPT Meets the Russian Constructicon, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Date: 20-Jun-2023
From: Elisabeth Veimoen [elisabeth at jobbnorge.no]
Subject: Cognitive Science: PhD in Russian Linguistics- ChatGPT Meets the Russian Constructicon, UiT The Arctic University of Norway


University or Organization: UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Department: Department of Language and Culture
Job Location: Tromsø, Norway
Web Address: https://uit.no/startsida
Job Title: PhD in Russian Linguistics: ChatGPT Meets the Russian
Constructicon
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science

Description:

A PhD position is available at the Department of Language and Culture,
Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education in Russian
linguistics. The successful candidate will be joining CLEAR (Cognitive
Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian); a research group at UiT
that pursues empirical research in the framework of cognitive
linguistics with the aim of building electronic resources that support
research-based student-centered language pedagogy. The CLEAR group at
UiT (together with partners at HSE University in Moscow) has developed
the largest digital resource of constructions for any language of the
world, namely the Russian Constructicon, with over 2200 constructions.
Our Russian Constructicon resource has numerous features that will
prove especially valuable in the research that this PhD candidate will
pursue.

The objective of the position is to complete research training to the
level of a doctoral degree. Admission to the PhD programme is a
prerequisite for employment, and the programme period starts on
commencement of the position.

The PhD fellow position is for a period of three years and full-time
studies with the possibility of an extension of the appointment
period. If the doctoral dissertation is submitted for appraisal within
3 years or within 3.5 years, the PhD candidate is qualified for a
completion grant for either 12 or 6 months. The completion grant
should be used to further qualification measures such as courses in
teaching in higher education, lecturing and other relevant work at the
faculty. More information about the completion grant scheme can be
found at https://uit.no/phd-en#v-pills-727061.

The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the
position within a reasonable time after receiving the offer.

AI text generators such as ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models
open up a plethora of theoretical, practical, and pedagogical
questions, some of which will be addressed by this PhD project. The
goal is to probe the boundary between the types of constructions where
ChatGPT is highly competent and the types of constructions where it
fails. In this way, we can learn more about theoretical modeling of
language and how second language learning can benefit from using AI
text generators. The theoretical framework for this project is
Construction Grammar, and the starting point will be the Russian
Constructicon, which focuses primarily on multi-word constructions.

Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2023
Mailing Address for Applications:
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo
bs/job/243379/phd-in-russian-linguistics-chatgpt-meets-the-russian-con
structicon
Contact Information:
        Professor Laura A. Janda
        Email: laura.janda at uit.no



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