26.1676, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Antwerp

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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:37:37
From: Frank Brisard [frank.brisard at uantwerpen.be]
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Researcher, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

 
University or Organization: University of Antwerp 
Department: Linguistics
Job Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Web Address: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/
Job Title: Researcher
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at University of Antwerp is welcoming
applications for the following position: researcher (100%) in the area of
corpus linguistics.

Duties and responsibilities

- You assist in carrying out research related to the ERC starting grant
‘Mind-Bending Grammars: The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical
changes in Early Modern English writers’
(https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/mind-bending-grammars/, PI Peter
Petré). The central topic of this project is how much syntactic change is
possible in adult individuals;
- You are responsible for
 - Formatting of the corpus;
 - Development and follow-up of a customized concordancing program &
interactive platform, which integrates the analyses of the different team
members;
- You are involved in
 - The composition of the corpus; 
 - The statistical processing of the data; 
 - Optimalisation of the OCR-quality of some of the data. 
- You contribute to teaching in the department of linguistics.

Requirements

- You hold at least a master degree in computational linguistics, IT or an
equivalent degree;
- You are familiar with a scripting language (Perl, Python, Java); 
- Familiarity with one or more of the following is an asset:
 - Regular expressions; 
 - Advanced statistics;
 - XML, TEI P5;
 - Website management;
 - Relational databases (SQL, PostgreSQL); 
 - OCR-technology
- You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;

We offer an appointment for 2 years, starting 1 September 2015, with a
competitive salary (gross monthly salary ranges from 3.145,57 euro – 5.323,28
euro), in a dynamic team on a prestigious research project financed by the
European Research Council.

For a full description of the job conditions, including a link to the online
application form, see the application website.



Application Deadline: 15-May-2015 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2015bapflwex128/ 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Frank Brisard 
	Email: frank.brisard at uantwerpen.be 
	Phone: +32 (0)3 265 42 69 


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