28.1588, Support: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics / United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1588. Fri Mar 31 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1588, Support:  Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics / United Kingdom

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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:51:00
From: Andrew Gargett [andrew.gargett at stfc.ac.uk]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics, PhD Student, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

 Institution/Organization: University of Liverpool 
Department: Department of English 
Web Address: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Description:

Stipend: The studentship will cover University fees and, depending on
eligibility, an annual stipend, starting at £14,553, for 3 years. DTP students
also have access to research and training expenses, and can apply for further
funding to pursue fieldwork, academic exchange, and collaboration with
non-academic organisations.

Closing Date: The deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday 20th April,
2017.

Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD studentship in the Department of
English, as part of the ESRC North West Social Science Doctoral Training
Partnership (NWSSDTP) at the University of Liverpool in collaboration with the
Hartree Centre, a non-HEI partner organisation. The PhD project entitled
‘Variation and style in Liverpool English: building corpora to support
automatic dialect recognition’ will be the first systematic study of variation
of Liverpool English (LE) which will result in a spoken corpus of LE. The
corpus will be used to build a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition
system for this regional variation. The project is designed for students with
interdisciplinary interests in sociolinguistics, computational phonetics and
natural language processing. It will contribute to knowledge and understanding
of regional speech through the prism of new methodologies and techniques that
can be applied in industry. The student will be based in the department of
English (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/). Due to the interdisciplinary
nature of the project, the student will also complete a substantial amount of
work at the Hartree Centre (http://www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/hartree/), with
supervision in all disciplines.

DTP students will acquire a unique set of skills that will equip them for
high-profile careers as leading social scientists, in academia or in other
government, industrial, commercial and third sector organisations either in
the UK or elsewhere.

You will have a good Bachelor degree (equivalent of first-class distinction)
in (computational) linguistics and a Master’s in a related area, preferably
with a specialization in sociophonetics, completed by September 30th 2016. Due
to a significant component of the project involving some intensive work in the
area of computational modelling of natural language speech, the successful
candidate will need strong programming skills (i.e. at least Python and/or
Java and or C++, but R and/or Matlab would be an advantage), as well as a
solid background in statistical modelling of speech and/or language.

You will work with Dr Sofia Lampropoulou and with Dr Paul Cooper as members of
the UoL English department and with Dr Andrew Gargett as researcher at the
Hartree Centre. The successful candidate will join the research cluster for
‘Language Variation’ and will be part of a world-class research environment.

DTP studentships are currently only open to UK and EU citizens. You can find
out more here about the residency requirements that apply:
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/files/skills-and-careers/studentships/postgraduate-fundi
ng-guide/

Further information about the ESRC North West Social Science Doctoral Training
Partnership is available here: https://nwssdtp.ac.uk/

To apply for this vacancy please send a statement of interest and CV to:
artshr at liverpool.ac.uk
Informal inquiries can be sent to: s.lampropoulou at liverpool.ac.uk
Interviews are scheduled for the week beginning 24th April.

Application Deadline: 20-Apr-2017 

Web Address for Applications: artshr at liverpool.ac.uk 

Contact Information: 
	Sofia Lampropoulou 
	s.lampropoulou at liverpool.ac.uk  

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