[Corpora-List] Two Marie Curie PhD Scholarships at the University of Copenhagen

[Bolette S Pedersen]

*Two Marie Curie PhD Scholarships in Semantic Annotation of Corpora and 
Multimodal Communication at the University of Copenhagen*

*Application deadline March 15, 2010*

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for 
Language Technology, under the Faculty of Humanities is inviting 
applications for two PhD scholarships in semantic annotation of corpora 
and multimodal communication starting September 1, 2010 for a period of 
up to three years. The positions involve participation in the EU project 
CLARA -- Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a 
Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from European 
Commission's 7^th Framework Programme (http://clara.uib.no, 
 http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/).

The applicants can not be a Danish citizen, except if the applicants 
have legally resided and had his/her main activity in a non--associated 
third country for at least three of the last four years immediately 
prior to his/her employment. Further, applicants must not have resided 
or performed their main activity in Denmark more than 12 months in the 3 
year period immediately prior to the start date of the PhD scholarship.

*Semantic Annotation of Corpora*

One PhD scholarship is announced within the CLARA research area 
/S//emantic Annotation of Large Corpora/. Semantic corpus annotation is 
moving into a new era where also lesser studied languages can provide 
the necessary background language resources required for the task. 
Semantic corpus annotation can provide the much wanted synergy between 
large text repositories and lexical-semantic resources and thereby make 
text collections more accessible for different kinds of humanities 
researchers. The overall aim of this CLARA research area is to 
investigate (i) to which degree current wordnets (currently available 
for around 60 languages) and other lexical semantic resources are 
suitable as lexical semantic resources for automatic annotation of 
large, varied corpora (written, spoken and visual) and (ii) to which 
degree resources and tools for corpus annotation are transferable 
between languages. The research project will include the study of cross- 
and multilingual aspects of semantic corpus annotation and the 
possibility of technological transfer between languages.

The PhD project should focus on one or more of these aspects of semantic 
corpus annotation, and the PhD scholar should relate to relevant lexical 
resources (computational lexicons and/or wordnets) and corpora for the 
particular language(s) the he or she wishes to work with.

*Multimodal Communication Modeling*

Another PhD Scholarship involves participation in the CLARA subproject 
/Multimedia and Multimodal Communication Modeling,/ which is a 
cooperation between the University of Copenhagen and Max Planck 
Institute, Germany. The overall goal of the subproject is to study human 
communicative multimodal behavior empirically. 

The objective of the PhD project is to produce insight on essential 
aspects of multimodal behavior such as feedback, dialogue management, 
information structure and reference, by conducting empirical studies on 
audiovisual corpora. Analysis methods will be based on manual annotation 
but also on automatic methods such as machine learning. Existing 
multimodal corpora and/or multimodal data annotated within the PhD 
project will be used to produce empirically-based evidence of how 
specific non-verbal behaviors are used in human communication. Relevant 
research issues are, for example, to which extent non-verbal behavior 
may be captured in formal categories that an algorithm can be trained to 
recognize; the importance of the cultural context in interpreting 
behavior;  or whether a universal core can be defined for non-verbal 
behaviors, similarly to what certain linguistic schools have attempted 
to do for language. Analyses of multimodal communication in different 
cultural settings, communication situations and social contexts are also 
relevant.

For the full calls, cf: 
http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/

 

 

 

 

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Seniorforsker, ph.d., Bolette Sandford Pedersen
Center for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet
Njalsgade 140-142, DK-2300 København S
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