24.738, Jobs: English; German; Comp Ling; Pragmatics; Comp Semantics; Disc Semantics: Post Doc Researcher, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)

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Subject: 24.738, Jobs: English; German; Comp Ling; Pragmatics; Comp Semantics; Disc Semantics: Post Doc Researcher, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)

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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:01:13
From: Anton Benz [benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: English; German; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Computational Semantics; Discourse Semantics: Post Doc Researcher, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

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University or Organization: Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) 
Job Location: Berlin, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.php?id=1711&L=1
Job Rank: Post Doc; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Computational semantics; Discourse semantics

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

Description:

The Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, invites
applications for a post-doctoral researcher specializing in computational
linguistics with expertise in developing dialogue systems with a starting date
of June 1st, 2013, or soon thereafter.

The position will be part of a research project funded by the German Research
Foundation on "Pragmatic Requirements for Answer Generation in a Sales
Dialogue" (PRAGSales; Principal Investigators: Anton Benz, ZAS, and Ralf
Klabunde, University of Bochum). The goal of the project is to model three
interacting pragmatic aspects of utterance generation between an artificial
consultant and human customers: the use of rhetorical relations, framing
effects, and implicatures. The key innovative aspect of this project is the
application of game theoretic methods to the generation of pragmatically
optimal answers. Recent years saw the development of theoretical models. The
implementation should help to further refine these models, and to test the
sustainability of their theoretical assumptions.

The applicant should have:
-  Interest to work with game theoretic methods in pragmatics;
-  Solid experience with developing complete dialogue systems;
-  Knowledge of both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language
processing;
-  Solid programming skills;
-  Ability to work independently and self-motivated;

Basic knowledge of German is considered necessary, and applicants with good
command of German will be given preference. Further, knowledge of discourse
semantics and/or computational semantics is an advantage.

The salary is figured according to the union contract named TVöD E13. The
period of employment will be for 36 months. The project PRAGSales is partly
located at the ZAS, and partly at the University of Bochum. It is conducted
under the joint supervision of Anton Benz (ZAS) and Ralf Klabunde (University
of Bochum). The place of employment for the current position is Berlin,
Germany. It will be affiliated to the semantics-pragmatics group at the ZAS.

Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience, as well as
names and addresses of up to three references. Applications should be sent by
email to the application email address below. The position will be open
starting June 1, 2013. Applications received by March 15, 2013 will receive
full consideration, although interviews may start at any time and will
continue until the position has been filled.

Disabled applicants will be preferred if they have the same qualifications as
non-disabled applicants. The Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) is a leading
research centre in the field of theoretical and experimental linguistics, and
strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and
therefore encourages qualified female scientists to apply.

Further information can be found at the application website address below.

You are welcome to seek further information by contacting Anton Benz via
e-mail address below.



Application Deadline:  
Mailing Address for Applications: 
	Anton Benz 
	  
Email Address for Applications: benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de 
Web Address for Applications: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.php?id=1711&L=1 
Contact Information:
	Anton Benz 
	Email: benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de 





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