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Quest project, University of Hamburg — Researcher

Title:Researcher
Type:Job
Brief Description:QA for online corpora of signed and spoken languages
Company:Quest project, University of Hamburg
Location:Hamburg, Germany
Posted On:Mar 04, 2021
Application Deadline:Mar 17, 2021
More Information:
There is a position available for a researcher on the Quest project at the
University of Hamburg, start date 1 April 2021.

The QUEST project aims to develop quality standards and curation criteria for
audiovisual annotated language data and to develop and test quality assurance
procedures for their creation and curation. The position is part of the "Quality
Assurance Measures" work package and includes the (further) development and
online provision of tools for quality control of spoken or signed linguistic
corpora.

A Masters degree is required, in linguistics, computational linguistics or
another subject with a mathematical/information technology focus.

Desirable experience:
- Experience in dealing with spoken or signed linguistic corpora, ​as well as
knowledge of relevant software for their processing.
- Experience in creating and optimizing web-based user interfaces with regard to
the needs of users.
- Knowledge of established data standards and formats and demonstrable
experience in the development of web-based analysis tools for the
above-mentioned resources.
- Sound knowledge of programming languages ​​(Java and Python preferred),
the use of markup (XML, XSL(T) etc.) and search engine technology (e.g.
Elasticsearch).

Application via the University of Hamburg website. The job description on the
university website is only available in German, but knowledge of German is not
required for the position.

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=2266985ce1f8d2fe4f77b29c675a2753dd0d76ce

Deadline: March 17, 2021

For more information contact
Prof. Beáta Wagner-Nagy beata.wagner-nagy@uni-hamburg.de
Anna Wamprechtshammer anna.wamprechtshammer@uni-hamburg.de
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