| More Information: | The research group Applied Computational Linguistics at University of Potsdam
(Germany) has an opening for a part-time position (75%) in the Collaborative
Research Center (SFB) 632 "Information structure". The position is in the
project "Linguistic Database", which is lead by Prof. Anke Lüdeling (HU Berlin)
and Prof. Manfred Stede (Uni Potsdam).
Project website: http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/projects_d1ger.html
The research area for this position is the corpus-based investigation of
information structure phenomena at the sentence/text interface. The duration is
April 2012 to June 2015; the candidate can pursue a PhD as part of this work.
Compensation is according to the TVL-13 pay scale. Candidates need a Masters or
Diploma degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science (with knowledge
of Linguistics) or Linguistics (with knowledge in Computer Science).
The successful candidate will be dealing with
a) corpus-based studies of information structure in text: models of referential
movement, theme/rheme partitioning, etc.; studies in deriving
information-structural features (givenness status, topic, focus) from other
linguistic annotations (syntax, coreference, etc.); developing computational
tools for these purposes.
b) service (using annotation tools, databases) for the other,
empirically-oriented projects in the Potsdam part of the Collaborative Research
Center.
A position of a student assistant is available to help with these tasks.
Candidates should
- know conceptions of information structure, esp. for written language (text)
- know theories of discourse structure
- know basic techniques of computational linguistics
- have experience with scripting languages (e.g., Perl)
- enjoy teamwork
- have some knowledge of German
An optional plus is experience with XML technology and software development in
Java.
Deadline for applications (PDF please) is March 9, 2012. For applications or
questions, please contact:
Prof Dr Manfred Stede, stede@uni-potsdam.de |