31.2107, Support: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: PhD, University of Oslo, Norway

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Subject: 31.2107, Support: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: PhD, University of Oslo, Norway

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:06:06
From: Dag Haug [daghaug at ifikk.uio.no]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Semantics: PhD, University of Oslo, Norway

 Institution/Organization: University of Oslo 
Department: Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies 
Web Address: https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Semantics 
 

Description:

A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in (computational) semantics is
available at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies,
University of Oslo.

The Doctoral Research Fellowship is funded by the Norwegian Research Council
and is associated with the project Universal Natural Language Understanding.
The overall goal of the project is to create semantic representations in the
form of Discourse Representation Structures from Universal Dependencies syntax
trees, by using both rule-based techniques from Glue Semantics and (neural)
machine learning approaches in a process that normalizes the syntax trees,
rewrites the nodes as lambda terms in a course-grained, language-independent
manner and composes them. In addition, the project will do language-specific
enrichment of the resulting semantic representations based on available
lexical resources for Norwegian. Prospective applicants who want to know more
about the project should contact the PI, Professor Dag Haug.

The PhD fellow will be part of the project's core team together with a
postdoctoral fellow, a research programmer and the PI. The candidate is
expected to contribute to building the overall system and to conduct research
closely connected to the main project. It is essential for the project that
the team as group is competent in both theoretical and computational
approaches to semantics.

To apply, please see the application link provided below.
 

Application Deadline: 10-Sep-2020 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dag Haug 
	Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies 
	PO Box 1102 
	Oslo 0317 
	Norway 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/188483/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-computational-semantics 

Contact Information: 
	Prof Dag Haug 
	daghaug at ifikk.uio.no  


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