Job opening: PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing, Universitaet Potsdam, Germany The Applied Computational Linguistics group (Discourse Research Lab, Prof. Stede) invites applications for a PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing. In contrast to previous efforts using relatively shallow features, this project emphasizes the role of deeper knowledge on the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of connectives for improved discourse parsing. The primary target language is German. The project (“Anaphoricity in Connectives”) is funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the duration is 3 years. Payment for this position is in line with…
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[JOB] Associate Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany
The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany has two openings for an Associate Research Scientist (PostDoc- or PhD-level; for an initial term of two years) to strengthen the group’s profile in the areas of Interactive Machine Learning (IML) or Computational Argumentation (CA). The UKP Lab is a research group comprising over 30 team members who work on various aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP), of which Interactive Machine Learning and Computational Argumentation are the rapidly developing focus areas in collaboration…
Foundations of the Language of Argumentation
Date: September 13, 2016 Venue: Univ. of Potsdam, Griebnitzsee Campus Website: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/index.php?page=ws2.php Contact: comma2016-ws@uni-potsdam.de This is a workshop in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Computational Argument. Participants can register either for the conference+workshops, or only for a workshop. Workshop organizers: Patrick Saint-Dizier (CNRS/IRIT, Univ. of Toulouse) and Manfred Stede (Univ. of Potsdam) Submission modalities: We invite papers which present completed research, including new approaches, experimental results, resources and/or techniques. The maximum length of the papers is 6 pages plus references. All submissions must be in PDF format. They should be…
Master Διερμηνείας Συνεδρίων, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Τα ελληνικά μπορούν να επιλεγούν στο Master Διερμηνείας Συνεδρίων ως 1η (μητρική), 2η ή 3η γλώσσα και είναι από τα καινούρια τμήματα του μεταπτυχιακού αυτού προγράμματος. Στη γερμανική αγορά έχει αυξηθεί τα τελευταία χρόνια η ζήτηση διερμηνέων ελληνικών, με αποτέλεσμα τα ελληνικά να αποτελούν ένα καλό συμπλήρωμα στις λεγόμενες «ισχυρές» γλώσσες. Φοιτητές που έχουν τα ελληνικά ως μητρική πρέπει υποχρεωτικά να επιλέξουν τα γερμανικά ως 2η γλώσσα και παρακολουθούν ασκήσεις διερμηνείας προς τα ελληνικά καθώς και προς τα γερμανικά. Συμπληρωματικά επιλέγουν τα αγγλικά ως 3η γλώσσα και παρακολουθούν ασκήσεις διερμηνείας…
Research Fellowship at the Language Technology Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI LT-Lab)
The Language Technology Lab of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI LT-Lab) invites applications in Berlin, Germany for a Research Fellowship in language technology, primarily in the area of machine translation. The focus will be on the analytical improvement of MT techniques and on MT evaluation. We are looking for people who enjoy working in an innovative and enthusiastic research team, love challenges and are passionate about research and development. We offer an excellent working environment with a variety of research projects. The successful applicant will work in…