Hi All,
I am still looking for people at the PostDoc or Doc level to help out with project work and teaching.
Attached is the job ad I put on Linguist List — Deadline was for today, but I’m extending it a little to mid April. If you know of anybody or are interested yourself, let me know!
Cheers,
Miriam
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Title: Open-rank position available in Computational Linguistics (TVL-13 salary scale)
The Computational Linguistics group at the University of Konstanz has open positions. At the postdoctoral level, we have need of teaching as as well as research. Teaching and research could be combined into one postdoctoral position (50% research, 50% teaching) for two years. At the doctoral level we can alternatively offer a 3-year 65% doctoral research position.
Our current research projects encompass work on framing, argumentation and the automatic detection of non-canonical questions. We are looking for people interested in combining symbolic with machine learning approaches. We are also particularly looking for researchers with knowledge of Spanish for a project on "Mobilising Inequalities". The project is part of the Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/). Overall our work involves the identification, analysis and automatic extraction of linguistic cues for NLP applications that support research into how arguments and issues are framed. The non-canonical questions work is part of the FOR 2111 "Questions at the Interfaces" (https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/questionsInterfaces/), argumentation as part of the SPP RATIO (http://ratio.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/projects-phase-2/cuepaq/).
Our staff works closely with researchers from Political Science and Visual Analytics, providing interesting and fruitful scope for interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
On the teaching side, our popular MA "Speech and Language Processing" requires teaching in the following areas: Machine-Language Processing (overview course) Finite-State Morphology, Corpus Linguistics with Python, Deep Learning with Python, Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Grammar Development (LFG), Computational Semantics. Pre-set syllabi and material exist for all of these courses. A 100% teaching position comes with 8 hours of teaching (equivalent to about 3-4 courses a semester).
Positions are available as of April 1, 2022.
Requirements:
Postdoctoral applicants should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) and applicants at the doctoral level should have an MA degree. Both should be in the areas of computational linguistics or linguistics. The applicants should be well versed in linguistic analysis and possess programming skills. Knowledge of Python is particularly relevant.
The University of Konstanz encourages disabled persons to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact +497531/88–4016 und 88-2834).
The University of Konstanz is an equal opportunity employer that tries to increase the number of women in research and teaching.
The University of Konstanz has been certified as a family-friendly institution by the Hertie Foundation and is committed to further the compatibility of work and family life.
The University of Konstanz offers a „Dual Career Couples Program“. Information can be obtained from: http://www.familie.uni-konstanz.de/dual-career/ .
Applicants should send a cover letter, a full CV and one sample publication or paper to: miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
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