24.1839, Jobs: Text/Corpus Ling: Director, URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Subject: 24.1839, Jobs: Text/Corpus Ling: Director, URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:35:09
From: Agnes Kolmer [a.kolmer at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Director, URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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University or Organization: URPP Language and Space, University of Zurich 
Department: CorpusLab
Job Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Job Rank: Director

Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu) 

Description:

The newly-established University Research Priority Program (URPP) on Language
and Space at the University of Zurich invites applications for the position of
Director of the CorpusLab (post-doc, 75%-100% FTE).

The URPP explores the interface between language and space with regard to (a)
the distribution of languages and linguistic structures in geographical and
social space; and (b) the embedding of speech in the spatial environment as
shaped by cognition, motion and action. The URPP combines insights from
dialectology, typology and interactional linguistics. A key goal of the URPP
is the foundation of three new linguistic laboratories starting in July 2013:
one for corpus linguistics (CorpusLab), one for GIS-based linguistics
(GISLab), and one for video-based linguistics (VideoLab). The laboratories are
expected to develop and apply advanced methods and technologies in data
collection, data pro-cessing, and data analysis.

In close collaboration with the URPP board, the prospective director will
build up the CorpusLab as a center for the development and application of
corpus-linguistic methods that support research in the URPP. The director will
develop his or her own profile and research agenda, and will conduct research
on the language and space interface in collaboration with members of the URPP
(e.g. on questions of language contact and areal diffusion, or on questions of
multi-modality in face-to-face-interaction). In addition, the prospective
director is expected to apply for third-party funding. The position includes
teaching responsibilities (a minimum of 2h/week). The director will also
coordinate services and support for corpus-linguistic issues that arise in the
URPP (corpus development, analysis and archiving). In this task, s/he will be
supported by student assistants and (as of 2014) a PhD student.

Applicants must have a PhD in linguistics or computational linguistics as well
as publications in the area of quantitative corpus analysis (ideally including
visualization techniques). Applicants are expected to have demonstrated skills
in programming. The successful candidate is keen to collaborate with linguists
of very diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, dialectology,
areal typology, interactional linguistics, computational linguistics, general
linguistics, English linguistics, romance languages, sinology). The candidate
is also expected to have an interest in inter-disciplinary research. Apart
from English, applicants must have a good command of German or be ready to
acquire this during the first six months after taking up the position.

Applications should include a letter of motivation, an outline of the research
agenda they would propose for the CorpusLab, a CV including a list of
publications, a copy of their PhD certificate, and the names and addresses of
two references. Applications should be sent as a single PDF file to the
application email address below, with the subject “Be-werbung WM KorpusLab”.
Applications must be submitted by May 20, 2013. The position is available from
August 1, 2013, but might be filled later. The position is initially limited
until December 31, 2016, but an extension is possible subject to budgetary
developments and performance.

For further information, please contact Dr. Agnes Kolmer.

Application Deadline: 20-May-2013 

Email Address for Applications: beatrice.fleiner at ds.uzh.ch 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Agnes Kolmer 
	Email: a.kolmer at ds.uzh.ch 
	Phone: 00 41 44 63 45 747 

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