PhD post: Universit=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9_?=Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language acquisition, dialogue, semantics, machine learning

[Philip Miller]

PhD post: Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)---language acquisition, 
dialogue, semantics, machine learning

Applicants are invited for a full time PhD post to work within the 
  10-year project Labaratory of Excellence (LabEx) "Empirical 
foundations of linguistics" ( http://www.labex-efl.org/). The candidate 
will work in Strand 4: Language representation and processing in a 
  lifespan perspective.

The successful applicant, who will be based at the Laboratoire de 
Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) ( 
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr ) . She or he should have  qualifications in 
linguistics, computer science, or psycholinguistics at the Master's 
level or equivalent.

The thesis, which can be written in English, will involve research 
within a project developing a  model of language acquisition that 
integrates parent-child interaction as part of the primary data. The 
empirical basis will be  corpus  studies of multimodal child-parent 
interaction. Modelling will involve developing techniques that integrate 
dialogue modelling and machine learning as the basis for a theory of how 
grammar emerges at the very early stages of language acquisition. 
Research will also  involve  development of grammars for early child 
utterances and induction algorithms that will allow such grammars to 
change on the basis of interactions. The applicant will be working in an 
international interdisciplinary research team.

Applicants will be assessed by  committee from the LabEx EFL. The main 
emphasis of the assessment will be on the applicant's potential for 
research, as evident from: Master's thesis or other equivalent scholarly 
works.

Please attach with your application:
- letter of application
- CV
- two names of referees (with email address)
- web address with publications.

Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg
Contact email: yonatan.ginzburg_at_univ-paris-diderot.fr
Duration:36 months starting september 2012
Salary: in accordance with the French state regulated PhD salary scale
Application deadline: 10/04/2012
Application email:  thierry.nazzi_at_parisdescartes.fr
Application reference: EFL-OLA8

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Yonatan Ginzburg
yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr 
<mailto:yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr>
https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanginzburgswebsite/








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