33.380, Support: Cognitive Science: PhD, University of Amsterdam

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-380. Tue Feb 01 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.380, Support: Cognitive Science: PhD, University of Amsterdam

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Billy Dickson
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Goldfinch, Nils Hjortnaes,
      Joshua Sims, Billy Dickson, Amalia Robinson, Matthew Fort
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Lauren Perkins <lauren at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:18:52
From: Katrin Schulz [k.schulz at uva.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science: PhD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

 Institution/Organization: University of Amsterdam 
Department: Institute for Logic, Language and Computation 
Web Address: https://www.illc.uva.nl/ 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science 
 

Description:

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation is looking to fill one PhD
postion in the research project The biased reality of online media – Using
stereotypes to make media manipulation visible of Katrin Schulz and Leendert
van Maanen, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In this
interdisciplinary project we combine knowledge from linguistics, psychology,
and natural language processing to study the impact of (online) media on
stereotypical beliefs people hold. In order to do so, we measure which
stereotypes are expressed by computational language models and how such biases
relate to stereotypical beliefs that individuals may hold. The goal is to
develop a computational model to understand how media sources affect
stereotypical beliefs.

The project involves two PhD students and a programmer. While the other PhD
student will work on extracting bias from text corpora, you will focus on
comparing these biases with experimental data from human participants. This
might involve improving on existing experiment measures of stereotypical
beliefs in humans. You will also be involved in the psychometric validation of
the bias measures for text corpora. Finally, you will develop a causal
cognitive model for the influence of media coverage on stereotypical beliefs.
Your project will be jointly supervised by Dr Leendert van Maanen and Dr
Katrin Schulz.

For more information and to apply, please see the application link below. 
 

Application Deadline: 21-Feb-2022 

Web Address for Applications: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Researcher-Cognitive-Psychology-and-Causal-Modeling/740379102/ 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Katrin Schulz
	k.schulz at uva.nl  


------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2020 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-33-380	
----------------------------------------------------------