26.2632, Jobs: Semitic; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Associate, Hamburg University

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:55:20
From: Thomas Eich [thomas.eich at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Semitic; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Research Associate, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

 
University or Organization: Hamburg University 
Department: Humanities, Asia Africa Institute
Job Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Job Title: Research Associate
Job Rank: Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Semitic

Description:

Full time. Research Associate in the 5 year project "Contemporary Bioethics
and the History of the Unborn in Islam" (COBHUNI) (funded by the European
Research Council). 

COBHUNI analyzes how the conceptualizations of pre-natal life developed
throughout 1400 years of Islamic history. This aims at a better assessment of
the factors which impacted on these conceptualizations at different times and
possibly transformed them. In COBHUNI the focus of analysis are two text
corpora: the Quran and prophetic sayings (hadith) to which commentary
literature emerged over time and is produced until today. Both contain
passages communicating ideas of pre-natal life. COBHUNI will analyze those
passages along two axes: a) a vertical axis (citation patterns within the
respective genre), b) horizontal axis (citations transcending the genres). 

A major aspect of the project will be the adaptation and development of tools
of computational linguistics for Arabic text material.

Among your responsibilities are:

- Working in the ERC-project COBHUNI (Contemporary Bioethics and the History
of the Unborn in Islam)
- Research in the area of "Digital Humanities" and corpus linguistics
- Conceptualization and implementation of internet-based tools for citation
analysis and development of a meta data model
- Supervision of the data ingest (Scans, OCR, XML etc.) and technical
instruction of the research team
- Technical supervision of the virtual web servers and repositories
(Fedora/MyCoRe)

Requirements: 

A university degree in a relevant subject. Knowledge of English and a
right-to-left hand, Semitic language. Familiarity with markup languages and
meta data standards in XML (TEI, METS/MODS) and their accompanying
technologies such as XSLT and Xquery. Substantiated knowledge of up-to-date
web technologies and experience with web development. Experienced handling of
relational databases (MySQL) and search engine technology (SOLR). Good
communication skills, flexibility, good time management.

Desirable: Experience with Digital Humanities (e.g. digital editions among
others). Openness for interdisciplinary cooperation. Knowledge in the
programming languages Java and C++. 

For further information on COBHUNI see:
http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/Personal/Eich.html



Application Deadline: 17-Jun-2015 
	  
Email Address for Applications: thomas.eich at uni-hamburg.de 
Contact Information:
	Thomas Eich 
	Email: thomas.eich at uni-hamburg.de 


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