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: 2 positions at the University of Birmingham
Information on two positions at the University of Birmingham – The posts are part of a wider initiative by the University to promote research excellence. Linguistics – in particular corpus linguistics – is a key research priority of the university. 1) Professorial Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics The Professorial Fellow will be based in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, which houses the Centre for Corpus Research. The department has particular expertise in Cognitive Linguistics, Stylistics, Discourse Analysis, New Media and English Language Teaching, many of these areas linked to corpus-based research…