29.1786, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, University of Groningen

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Subject: 29.1786, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, University of Groningen

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:11:33
From: Christina Englert [c.englert at rug.nl]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: PhD, University of Groningen, Netherlands

 Institution/Organization: University of Groningen 
Department: Center for Language and Cognition 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 

Description:

Description of the PhD trajectory:
The successful applicant is committed to conducting independent and original
scientific research, to report on this research in international publications
and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD
dissertation. The PhD students participate in local, national and
international training activities, including summer schools and conferences,
to maximally develop their potential. Some participation in faculty teaching,
in the context of a didactic training module, is negotiable.

The successful applicant is invited to perform research in the project COSMOS:
Code Switching on Social Media, but may also propose her/his own research
project. Social media, such as the microblogging platform Twitter, are
characterised by the abundant use of foreign words from English,Morrocan,
Turkish, etc. In the COSMOS project, we investigate this so-called
'code-switching' and how it spreads over Dutch tweets. By investigating a huge
dataset of 1.7 billion Dutch tweets, we want to answer research questions such
as whether more English is used by Dutch twitterers, how languages such as
Morrocan and Turkish spread over Twitter, who uses dialect, etc. As it is
impossible to process all this data manually, we will develop novel
computational methods for identifying code switching on social media. 

The supervisors of the PhD are dr. Gosse Bouma, dr. Martijn Wieling and prof.
Gertjan van Noord. The candidate may also propose her/his own research project
in the area of computational linguistics linking to the research areas of the
three supervisors.

As a member of the Graduate School for the Humanities, a PhD candidate may
participate in courses, seminars and summer schools organized by Dutch
national graduate school Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde (LOT) and/or by
the Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
(BCN).

Linguistic research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen is
organized in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). The
proposed PhD research must be closely connected with research currently
carried out within the Computational Linguistics group of the CLCG. Please see
the website of CLCG for additional information:
http://www.rug.nl/research/clcg

For questions regarding the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen,
please contact Prof. G.J.M. van Noord, email: g.j.m.van.noord at rug.nl
 

Application Deadline: 10-Jun-2018 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/phd-scholarships?details=00347-02S0006BRP 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Gosse Bouma 
	g.bouma at rug.nl  


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