[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 75, Issue 20
John B. LOWE
jblowe at berkeley.edu
Fri Sep 20 05:01:41 UTC 2013
apropos postdocs...i mean...there are zillions, aren't there!!
JB
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Subject: Corpora Digest, Vol 75, Issue 20
To: corpora at uib.no
Today's Topics:
1. Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related disciplines: College
of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (Pretorius, Laurette)
2. Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related disciplines: College
of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa (Pretorius, Laurette)
3. Re: Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related disciplines:
College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
(Pretorius, Laurette)
4. Job: Oxford, UK, for Computational Linguist to work on
Oxford Children's Corpus (Adam Kilgarriff)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:19:07 +0200
From: "Pretorius, Laurette" <Pretol at unisa.ac.za>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related
disciplines: College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
To: "corpora at uib.no" <corpora at uib.no>
This message (and attachments) is subject to restrictions and a
disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full
details.
________________________________
Duration of Call: 16 September - 18 October 2013.
The College of Graduate Studies of the University of South Africa
(Unisa) is inviting outstanding candidates for Postdoctoral Researcher
positions in the fields of natural language processing/ natural
language technologies/computational linguistics/semantic computing to
collaborate in a project on Sustainable Multilingualism in the South
African Context.
The candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or a
related discipline, with specialisation in any one of the following or
closely related fields: natural language processing (NLP), natural
language technologies, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics,
or machine learning. Experience in the use of functional programming
in NLP applications and computational grammar development,
specifically in GF (Grammatical Framework) or knowledge of an African
language will be an advantage.
The successful candidates will be expected to collaborate in an
interdisciplinary environment where the focus is on research,
development and deployment of computational approaches towards
sustainable multilingualism in the South African context. The
candidates will form part of a team of researchers involved in
innovative work towards realising multilingual support for ten of the
eleven official languages of South Africa. The expectation is that the
candidate's work would increase the international reputation of the
research group and the institution through world-class research,
publications and applications through collaborations with team members
and other researchers, as appropriate, and that it would also
contribute towards the increased success of master's and doctoral
research at Unisa.
Unisa (www.unisa.ac.za<http://www.unisa.ac.za> ) is an Open Distance
Learning (ODL) institution with more than 12,000 master's and doctoral
students.
Please visit URL:
https://staff.unisa.ac.za/cmsys/staff/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=7232
.
Under heading POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME / 2013, click on Call Advert.
For more information, please contact Prof Laurette Pretorius, College
of Graduate Studies, Unisa,
pretol at unisa.ac.za<file:///C:\Users\pretol\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\F8OGPT0W\pretol@unisa.ac.za>.
Laurette Pretorius (LAkadSA)
Professor of Computer Science/Professor in Rekenaarwetenskap
School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies/Skool vir
Interdissiplinêre Navorsing en Nagraadse Studies
College of Graduate Studies/Kollege vir Nagraadse Studies
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
Pretoria
Muckleneuk Campus/ Muckleneukkampus
Office/Kantoor: TvW 9-44
pretol at unisa.ac.za<mailto:pretol at unisa.ac.za>
+27124296727
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:30:47 +0200
From: "Pretorius, Laurette" <Pretol at unisa.ac.za>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related
disciplines: College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
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Please use the one below.
Duration of Call: 16 September - 18 October 2013.
The College of Graduate Studies of the University of South Africa
(Unisa) is inviting outstanding candidates for Postdoctoral Researcher
positions in the fields of natural language processing/ natural
language technologies/computational linguistics/semantic computing to
collaborate in a project on Sustainable Multilingualism in the South
African Context.
The candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or a
related discipline, with specialisation in any one of the following or
closely related fields: natural language processing (NLP), natural
language technologies, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics,
or machine learning. Experience in the use of functional programming
in NLP applications and computational grammar development,
specifically in GF (Grammatical Framework) or knowledge of an African
language will be an advantage.
The successful candidates will be expected to collaborate in an
interdisciplinary environment where the focus is on research,
development and deployment of computational approaches towards
sustainable multilingualism in the South African context. The
candidates will form part of a team of researchers involved in
innovative work towards realising multilingual support for ten of the
eleven official languages of South Africa. The expectation is that the
candidate's work would increase the international reputation of the
research group and the institution through world-class research,
publications and applications through collaborations with team members
and other researchers, as appropriate, and that it would also
contribute towards the increased success of master's and doctoral
research at Unisa.
Unisa (www.unisa.ac.za<http://www.unisa.ac.za> ) is an Open Distance
Learning (ODL) institution with more than 12,000 master's and doctoral
students.
Please visit URL:
http://www.unisa.ac.za/research/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Call-for-Applications-2.pdf
For more information, please contact Prof Laurette Pretorius, College
of Graduate Studies, Unisa,
pretol at unisa.ac.za<file:///C:\Users\pretol\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\F8OGPT0W\pretol@unisa.ac.za>.
Laurette Pretorius (LAkadSA)
Professor of Computer Science/Professor in Rekenaarwetenskap
School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies/Skool vir
Interdissiplinêre Navorsing en Nagraadse Studies
College of Graduate Studies/Kollege vir Nagraadse Studies
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
Pretoria
Muckleneuk Campus/ Muckleneukkampus
Office/Kantoor: TvW 9-44
pretol at unisa.ac.za<mailto:pretol at unisa.ac.za>
+27124296727
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:24:31 +0200
From: "Pretorius, Laurette" <Pretol at unisa.ac.za>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related
disciplines: College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
To: "Pretorius, Laurette" <Pretol at unisa.ac.za>, "corpora at uib.no"
<corpora at uib.no>
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Pretorius, Laurette [Pretol at unisa.ac.za]
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Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoctoral researchers in NLP related
disciplines: College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
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disclaimer. Please refer to http://www.unisa.ac.za/disclaimer for full
details.
________________________________
Duration of Call: 16 September ? 18 October 2013.
The College of Graduate Studies of the University of South Africa
(Unisa) is inviting outstanding candidates for Postdoctoral Researcher
positions in the fields of natural language processing/ natural
language technologies/computational linguistics/semantic computing to
collaborate in a project on Sustainable Multilingualism in the South
African Context.
The candidate should have a doctoral degree in computer science or a
related discipline, with specialisation in any one of the following or
closely related fields: natural language processing (NLP), natural
language technologies, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics,
or machine learning. Experience in the use of functional programming
in NLP applications and computational grammar development,
specifically in GF (Grammatical Framework) or knowledge of an African
language will be an advantage.
The successful candidates will be expected to collaborate in an
interdisciplinary environment where the focus is on research,
development and deployment of computational approaches towards
sustainable multilingualism in the South African context. The
candidates will form part of a team of researchers involved in
innovative work towards realising multilingual support for ten of the
eleven official languages of South Africa. The expectation is that the
candidate?s work would increase the international reputation of the
research group and the institution through world-class research,
publications and applications through collaborations with team members
and other researchers, as appropriate, and that it would also
contribute towards the increased success of master?s and doctoral
research at Unisa.
Unisa (www.unisa.ac.za<http://www.unisa.ac.za> ) is an Open Distance
Learning (ODL) institution with more than 12,000 master?s and doctoral
students.
Please visit URL:
https://staff.unisa.ac.za/cmsys/staff/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=7232
.
Under heading POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME / 2013, click on Call Advert.
For more information, please contact Prof Laurette Pretorius, College
of Graduate Studies, Unisa,
pretol at unisa.ac.za<file:///C:\Users\pretol\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\F8OGPT0W\pretol@unisa.ac.za>.
Laurette Pretorius (LAkadSA)
Professor of Computer Science/Professor in Rekenaarwetenskap
School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies/Skool vir
Interdissiplinêre Navorsing en Nagraadse Studies
College of Graduate Studies/Kollege vir Nagraadse Studies
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
Pretoria
Muckleneuk Campus/ Muckleneukkampus
Office/Kantoor: TvW 9-44
pretol at unisa.ac.za<mailto:pretol at unisa.ac.za>
+27124296727
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:43:09 +0100
From: Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Job: Oxford, UK, for Computational Linguist to
work on Oxford Children's Corpus
To: "corpora at hd.uib.no" <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the
Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, in
collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of
Computer Science. The appointee will have expertise in computational
linguistics and will work on a research programme entitled ?Using the
Oxford Children?s Corpus to explore children's literacy development: an
inter-disciplinary approach?.
- full time
- 12 months appointment
- closing date: 3rd October 2013 (Noon, BST)
- interviews: week beginning 31 October 2013
We hope the appointee will be able to take up the post in early January
2014, or as soon as possible thereafter.
**
It is expected that the appointee will have an undergraduate qualification
in a relevant subject (e.g., Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics) and
a post-graduate qualification to at least Masters-level in a relevant
topic. They will have expertise in analysing large corpora to explore
linguistic phenomena. ****
The appointee is expected to take the lead in delivering the programme of
research, working with the Principal Investigators:
- Professor Kate Nation (Department of Experimental Psychology),
- Dr. Victoria Murphy (Department of Education)
- Professor Stephen Pulman (Department of Computer Science).
The Oxford Children?s Corpus is a large, representative corpus of
children?s written language, comprising many millions of words, sampled
from material written for children (including fiction, curriculum material,
websites, magazines) and by children themselves. It is has been developed
by Oxford University Press. This project will use the corpus to examine a
variety of lexical phenomena including
- the identification of features of children?s reading experience that
might relate to reading development, in particular, contextual diversity
and semantic similarity and
- the examination of collocation patterns in children?s own writing.
**
Further information about the Principal Investigators can be found at
their websites:****
Nation: http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/****
Murphy: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/****
Pulman: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/****
**See also http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/
Responsibilities/duties
1. Work collaboratively with the Principal Investigators, their research
groups and with Oxford University Press.
2. Devise methods for analysing the corpus so as to address research
questions.
3. Analyse data and prepare reports detailing findings.
4. Assist with the general administration of the project.
5. Contribute to and assist with organising a seminar series associated
with the project.
6. A willingness to collect and analyse behavioural data to complement
corpus data.
Selection criteria Essential
1. An undergraduate qualification (2.1 or above, or equivalent) in a
relevant subject such as Psychology, Computer Science,
Linguistics.
2. A postgraduate qualification to at least Masters level in a relevant
subject.
3. An understanding of computational linguistics, machine learning
techniques and corpus analysis.
4. Experience in using corpus tools such as the IMS corpus workbench.
5. Experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python),
preferably in a Linux environment.
6. An understanding of experimental design and statistics.
7. An interest in understanding lexical processing, language development
and related theoretical topics.
8. A publication and dissemination record commensurate with stage of career.
Desirable
1. A PhD in a relevant subject.
2. Expertise in psycholinguistics, especially with respect to written
language and its development.
Working at the University of Oxford
For further information about working at Oxford, please see:
www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/
How to apply
If you consider that you meet the selection criteria, click on the *Apply
Now *button on the ?Job Details? page and follow the on-screen instructions
to register as a user. You will then be required to complete a number of
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education, or you may have taken time away from these activities in order
to raise a family, care for a dependant, or travel for example. Your
application will be judged solely on the basis of how you demonstrate that
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consider evidence of transferable skills or experience which you may have
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Please save all uploaded documents to show your name and the document type.
Should you experience any difficulties using the online application system,
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To return to the online application at any stage, please click on the
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Please note that you will be notified of the progress of your application
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