[Corpora-List] PhD offer in Corpus Linguistics and NLP at Universit é de Bretagne-Sud

[Geoffrey Williams]

PhD offer in Corpus Linguistics and NLP


Title: RESON: RElations Sémantiques et Ontologies Naturelles / Semantic
relationships and natural ontologies
The LICORN team of the HCTI research group
(http://web.univ-ubs.fr/corpus/) associated to the  VALORIA research
group. (http://www-valoria.univ-ubs.fr/)has currently a vacancy for a
3-year
PhD research grant in computer science and corpus linguistics, funded by
the regional council of Brittany, France.

RESON is a multidisciplinary project situated at the crossroads between
corpus linguistics and computer sciences, in particular natural language
processing. It involves two closely related search group from the 
Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS), Lorient, France : LiCoRN, part of the
larger humanities l'HCTI which specialises in corpus linguistics, text
encoding and lexicography and the computer science group VALORIA

This particular research fits into a number of applied projects under way
in including applications in web crawling, robotics and electronic
dictionaries. The object here is to detect semantic relationships within
large corpora using different theories of collocational networking allied
with models such as FrameNet (Fillmore et l), Frames (Martin) and Corpus
Pattern Analysis (Hanks). The context is practical creating models
applicable in two ongoing projects: Emotirob and RITEL.
The former concerns the creation of an interactive robot companion for
children undergoing long stays in hospital. The latter, RITEL, is a
collaboration with the CNRS research group LIMSI to create interactive
dialogue via telephone.

More information can be found on the Association Bernard Gregory website
(http://www.abg.asso.fr/)

Candidates should speak fluent French and English and hold Master’s degree
in corpus linguistics,  computer sciences or natural language processing.
Knowledge of other European languages is a plus.

Candidates should contact the proposers, Geoffrey Williams (LiCoRN –
geoffrey.williams at univ-ubs.fr ) and Jeanne Villaneau (VALORIA –
jeanne.villaneau at univ-ubs.fr ) by email with a full CV and letter of
motivation.

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Geoffrey Williams, MSc, PhD
Professeur des universités en sciences du langage
Département d'ingénierie du document
UFR de Lettres, Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Université de Bretagne-Sud
4 rue Jean Zay,
BP92116
F-56321 LORIENT Cedex

tél: +33 (0) 2 97 87 29 20
fax: +33 (0) 2 97 87 65 25


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