29.2257, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Saarland University

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Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 11:55:50
From: Elke Teich [e.teich at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, Saarland University, Germany

 
University or Organization: Saarland University 
Department: Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”
Job Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de
Job Title: 7 Post-doctoral positions
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

The CRC  Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (SFB 1102) is pleased to
invite applications for a range of post-doctoral positions available for its
second funding phase (7/2018-6/2022). The CRC’s research projects jointly
address the hypothesis that language variation and language use can be better
understood in terms of a speaker’s desire to rationally distribute information
across the linguistic signal. More specifically, a wide range of linguistic,
psycholinguistic and computational methods will be brought to bear in
explaining the multitude of choices speakers make when they encode their
messages – from the choice of words, structuring of syntactic elements, and
arranging sentences in discourse.   

Processing linguistic material has been shown to be correlated with its
contextually determined  predictability and may be appropriately indexed by
Shannon’s notion of information. The CRC investigates the hypothesis that (i)
processing complexity is indexed by Surprisal across linguistic levels, and
(ii) that variation in language use may be characterized by the optimal
distribution of information across the linguistic signal.   

The CRC includes 16 research projects drawing upon computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, diachronic linguistics, phonetics,
discourse linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translatology. We are
seeking to recruit 7 Postdocs and 15 PhD students. 

Dates: 
- Application deadline: June 20, 2018
- Starting date: flexible

Employment requirements are a PhD for Postdoc position. Note that we are happy
to receive applications by people who have not yet finished their PhD by the
time of application but will have submitted their thesis by the starting date
or shortly thereafter. Applicants are requested to submit their application,
together with an academic CV, a list of academic publications, copies of
academic degree certificates and two potential references.

For details on the individual projects and positions see: 
www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de  Applications must be sent directly to the
application email provided below. You may apply to more than one
project/position - please indicate this in each of your applications by
stating the relevant project and position number(s) and specifying an order of
preference.

Saarland University offers a lively academic environment that is famous for
its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and
cognition.  In CRC 1102, we entertain active collaborative links with the
Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI) as well as the Cluster of Excellence Multimodal Computing
and Interaction (M2CI: http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/).

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women
are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given
preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications.



Application Deadline: 20-Jun-2018 
	  
Email Address for Applications: sfb1102 at uni-saarland.de 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Dr. Elke Teich 
	Email: sfb1102 at uni-saarland.de 
	Phone: +49/681-302-4611 


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