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[JOB] PhD student position on PDTB-style discourse parsing, Universitaet Potsdam, Germany

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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…

[JOB] Postdoc in Computational Linguistics, University of Potsam

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A postdoc position is available (subject to the final administrative decision by the university) in the Discourse Research Lab / Applied Computational Linguistics Group in the FSP Cognitive Sciences, University of Potsdam (Germany). This position involves teaching 4 hours per week (= 2 seminars) and contributing to the research goals of the Lab, which is headed by Prof. Manfred Stede (http://angcl.ling.uni-potsdam.de/). The topics of most current interest are argumentation mining and discourse parsing. Applicants with background in (one of) these areas will be preferred. At this point, the position is available…

Foundations of the Language of Argumentation

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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…