<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Dear colleagues,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">We'd appreciate if you shared the posting below on our graduate student </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">positions through your networks. Also, if you know of students who'd be </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">interested in the creation of language technological resources and in </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Indigenous languages, we'd be most happy if they applied.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">----</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Level: PhD / MA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institution/Organization: University of Alberta </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duties: Research </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Specialty Areas:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Morphology; Phonetics; Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Indigenous Languages; Language Revitalization </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) or MA (2 years) level in its graduate program, to start September 2020 under the research project: </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant in 2019 – 2026, see: </span><a href="http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c</span></a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our Partnership is hosted by ALTLab and led by Dr. Antti Arppe. We develop language technological models, tools, and resources for Indigenous languages in Canada, starting with Plains Cree (Algonquian) and Tsuut’ina (Dene), and plan to continue and expand work with other languages. These resources include: intelligent electronic dictionaries, linguistically analyzed collections of spoken and written texts, spell-checkers, language learning and practice tools, and word form analyzers and generators, created in collaboration with Indigenous communities to facilitate and support the use of their languages in all spheres of life by community members.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duties and responsibilities: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beside studies in the Department’s graduate program, the graduate student will be expected to: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- support the development or maintenance of current or future projects within ALTLab for our Partner communities</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- conduct research that falls under ALTLab research topics on the languages of our Partners and/or another Indigenous language (see past publications and list of potential research topics on our website)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Requirements:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- a keen interest in North American Indigenous languages</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- a Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- meeting the general entrance requirements to the Department’s graduate program (</span><a href="http://www.linguistics.ualberta.ca/Graduate/Admissions.aspx" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(44,153,145);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.linguistics.ualberta.ca/Graduate/Admissions.aspx</span></a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Preferred Qualities:</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- experience in and knowledge of the phonetics/phonology and/or morphosyntax of Indigenous languages (North American Indigenous languages, in particular Plains Cree or other Algonquian language)</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- experience in computational linguistics and natural language processing (e.g. finite-state transducers, speech technology)</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- interest or experience in language documentation, language revitalization, language learning</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We offer: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">an opportunity to personally contribute to the practical retention of linguistic diversity </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- opportunities for well-rounded, comprehensive training in empirical research methods in field linguistics, psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics as well as in language technology </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- a chance to participate in an international SSHRC funded Partnership involving collaboration with partner organizations world-wide in the development of language technology and research on Indigenous languages</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to apply: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To apply, send by email to </span><a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">21ct4il@gmail.ca</span></a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (attn: Dr. Antti Arppe, ref: PhD 2020): </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- a brief statement of research interests and relevant background </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- curriculum vitae (including possible publications and presentations) </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- university transcripts</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- at least two confidential academic letters of reference delivered directly to Dr. Arppe (<a href="mailto:arppe@ualberta.ca">arppe@ualberta.ca</a>) by the referees</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will start considering applications in late-December 2019. The positions are open until filled, but we urge applications to be submitted by Friday Jan 3, 2020, so as to meet the Linguistics departmental regular graduate application deadline on Friday, Jan 10, 2020. These positions are for a start in September 2020.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:24pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, please consult the ALTLab website: </span><a href="https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/call-for-phd-student-applications-deadline-january-3rd-2020/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/call-for-phd-student-applications-deadline-january-3rd-2020/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or contact us (<a href="mailto:21ct4il@gmail.com">21ct4il@gmail.com</a>). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications Deadline: 03-Jan-2020 </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mailing Address for Applications:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        Attn: Dr. Antti Arppe </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        2-40 Assiniboia Hall </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E7 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">        Canada </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:2pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact Information: </span></p><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Partnership office</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:21ct4il@gmail.com">21ct4il@gmail.com</a></span></font></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Erin McGarvey</div><div>Administrative Assistant <div>21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages</div></div><div>MSc Student - Department of Linguistics </div><div>University of Alberta</div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>