[Corpora-List] Postdoctoral research fellow (Labex EFL, Paris): Models and methods for semantic processing. History and reflexivity

[Thierry Poibeau]

Dear Colleagues,

Applications are invited for one post-doctoral Research Associate position in Paris, funded by the LABEX EFL "Empirical foundations of Linguistics" (http://www.labex-efl.org/) to work on the following topic: "Models and methods for semantic processing. History and reflexivity".

The position will be hosted by UMR HTL "History of Linguistics" (CNRS-Paris 7-Paris 3) and the candidate is expected to work closely with Jacqueline Léon (HTL, http://htl.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/) and Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE, http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/)

See below for more details. 

Thierry Poibeau

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Postdoctoral research fellow: Models and methods for semantic processing. History and reflexivity

Contact: Jacqueline Léon, HTL
Contact email: jacqueline.leon_at_linguist.jussieu.fr
University: Université Paris 7
Job rank: post-doc
Duration: 12 months
Salary: ~24 000 €/ans
Keywords: Linguistics, computational linguistics, history of sciences, philosophy of language
Application deadline:  2011/11/10
Beginning of the contract: as soon as possible
Application reference: EFL-HRP

Description

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on a cross-disciplinary
 research project

 on the connexions between linguistics and natural language processing, with a strong epistemological and historical perspective.

The goal of the project is
 to investigate how concepts and methods can be transferred from semantic
 theories to natural language processing systems, in order to determine to which
 distorsions theories are submitted when transformed into applications.
 A case study will be chosen in agreement with the successful candidate. For example, in the case of Semantic Role Labelling, it will be valuable to study
 the different steps between Fillmore’s theory, as presented in his 1968 paper, 
 and its successive transformations into a semantic resource, such as Frame Net
 and PropBank. Other case studies might be chosen as well, such as DRT etc…


Requirements : The candidate should have a PhD in linguistics, computational
 linguistics, history of science or philosophy of language, with a clear
 interest for historical and epistemological aspects of linguistics and NLP.

The candidate should send a CV, including the names and addresses
of two academic referees, a list of publications and a covering letter outlining her/his research interest, namely how the candidate envisions
 the  project and which particular lines of research she/he intends to explore.






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