job announcement: post-doc in Pavia

[Silvia Luraghi]

Research Fellow in Linguistics
Department of Humanities, University of Pavia (Italy)

The Department of Humanities, University of 
Pavia, invites applications for a full-time, 
fixed term Research Fellow position on the 
project Argument Structure in Texts A Typological 
and Diachronic Research [Argumentstruktur in 
Texten. Typologische und diachrone 
Korpusuntersuchungen ]' funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung.

The project aims to compare argument structure in 
typologically different languages, and to develop 
tools for a quantitative analysis of the data 
regarding argument structure. It is part of a 
joint venture with the University of Erfurt. The 
part of the project to be developed in Pavia 
consists in extending computational resources for 
Ancient Greek in collaboration with other 
existing projects, and carrying out the 
statistical evaluation of the data. In particular, current goals include:
1. Expanding the Ancient Greek Treebank made 
available by the long-term project Perseus.
2. Acquiring other Treebanks by converting them 
into the Perseus standard of annotation
3. Studying the frequency and distribution of 
argument structure patterns through time (from Homer to the New Testament).
The web page of the project is at:
<https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home>https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home

The successful candidate should hold a PhD. 
Thorough understanding of the Ancient Greek 
language, as well as basic knowledge of German 
and Italian are required, as well as some 
experience with natural language processing 
techniques and possibly some practical experience 
with annotation. There may also be an opportunity 
to collaborate with the Department’s staff as 
teaching assistant, if this is jointly considered desirable.

The start date will be 01 September 2012. The 
post is available for up to two years. The salary 
for the first year is 19,367.00 Euros.

Informal enquiries about this position should be 
made to Prof. Silvia Luraghi (<mailto:keller at inf.ed.ac.uk>luraghi at unipv.it)

The full anouncement and the application form can be downloaded at:
<http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html>http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html
(Fluency in Italian is not a requirement, 
nevertheless the application must be written in Italian.)

Deadline for application: 14 June 2011 (the 
application must be received by the 
administrative office at the University of Pavia by this date).


Silvia Luraghi
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica
Università di Pavia
Strada Nuova 65
I-27100 Pavia
telef.: +39-0382-984685
fax: +39-0382-984487
silvia.luraghi at unipv.it
http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68  
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