32.3108, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Oslo

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Subject: 32.3108, Support: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Oslo

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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:54:14
From: Silje Susanne Alvestad [s.s.alvestad at ilos.uio.no]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of Oslo, Norway

 Institution/Organization: University of Oslo 
Department: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages 
Web Address: https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/ 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics 
 

Description:

A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) in Russian language and linguistics
is available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European
Languages, University of Oslo. The position is associated with the Researcher
Project grant 302573 ”Fakespeak – the language of fake news. Fake news
detection based on linguistic cues”, 
https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/fakespeak/, funded by the
Research Council of Norway and led by Project Manager Silje Susanne Alvestad,
researcher in Slavic languages and linguistics at the University of Oslo.

Fake news, defined as news items that are meant to be deceptive and which the
author knows to be false, is not a new phenomenon. However, the rapid
development of social media now allows news from sources of varying reputation
to be spread unfiltered at lightning speed and to be read by millions of
people in a very short period of time. Western liberal democracies are
vulnerable, and fake news and other types of disinformation may seriously harm
them.

The main objectives of the Fakespeak project, which consists of a core team of
linguists and computer scientists, are: 
 (i) to identify the language and style of fake news in English, Norwegian and
Russian, and
 (ii) to improve existing fake news detection systems by automating the
defining linguistic features of fake news. Industrial collaboration partners
of this project are Faktisk.no, Norway’s first and, so far, only fact-checking
service; the NRK, Norway’s largest media organization and broadcaster of news
from all over the world; and the NTB, the Norwegian News Agency. The goal of
the project is to help them and other stakeholders as well as the general
public to detect potentially harmful fake news items more efficiently and
accurately and in a more timely manner than what is currently possible.

The successful candidate to be hired at the Department will contribute to the
project achieving objective i). S/he will harvest datasets mainly in Russian
from the Internet, and analyse them statistically and visualize the results
applying corpus linguistics methods.

Priority will be given to proposals that fill a gap in the project in terms of
topic and/or fake news genre.  

The doctoral fellow will be part of a larger multi-disciplinary research
network involving linguistics, computer science, and media science. 

The call in its entirety can be found at the application link below. 
 

Application Deadline: 21-Oct-2021 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/207534/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-russian-language-and-linguistics 

Contact Information: 
	Ph.D. Silje Susanne Alvestad
	s.s.alvestad at ilos.uio.no  


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