[Corpora-List] Job Opening: PhD students in CL and English Linguistics

[Gerold Schneider]

The English Department and the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich are looking for two PhD  students to work in the project 'Large-Scale Annotation and Alignment of Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of Linguistic Variation'. The project aims at annotating and aligning multi-lingual parallel corpora (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Finnish), which will be used to study variable article use in English and German. Funding is available for a period of three years and may be extended.


Qualifications:

(a) English Linguistics PhD position

- Master in English Linguistics
- previous experience with corpus linguistics and statistics
- Languages: excellent English skills, good German skills; ideally, also basic skills in one of the other languages

(b) Computational Linguistics PhD position

- Master or Diploma in Computational Linguistics or related field
- Strong programming skills
- Languages: good English and German skills; other languages are a plus

Tasks:

(a) English Linguistics

- develop a methodology to retrieve information on variable article use (including zero articles) for English and German from the parallel corpora

- multi-factorial modelling of variable article use in English and German (zero articles in English, in particular)

- evaluate the usefulness of the corpus-driven approach to the modelling of cross-linguistically relevant notions such as 'definiteness' (extend to typologically different language pairs)

(b) Computational Linguistics

- develop word-aligned and annotated parallel corpora for the language pairs English-German, English-French, English-Spanish (at a later stage: English-Russian and English-Finnish)

- develop a corpus query system for the investigation of large aligned and annotated parallel corpora

Benefits:

- Salary according to the Swiss National Science Foundation rates (i.e. 42,000 CHF - 48,000 CHF per annum)
- Support for conference and summer school attendance
- Small and enthusiastic team
- High standard of living in one of the most attractive European cities: Zurich

Proposed starting date: 01-August-2013

Applications (including a CV and academic record) should be sent to

English Linguistics: Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt (mhundt at es.uzh.ch)
Computational Linguistics: Prof. Dr. Martin Volk (volk at cl.uzh.ch)

Application Deadline: 31-May-2013

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Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt
Englisches Seminar
Universität Zürich
Plattenstrasse 47
CH-8032 Zürich
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