PhD Scholarship Computational Linguistics, Graduate School for the Humanities
PhD Scholarship Computational Linguistics, Graduate School for the Humanities
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The successful applicant is committed to conducting independent and original scientific research, to report on this research in international publications and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD dissertatio
Job description
Description of the PhD trajectory:
The successful applicant is committed to conducting independent and original scientific research, to report on this research in international publications and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD dissertation. The PhD students participate in local, national and international training activities, including summer schools and conferences, to maximally develop their potential. Some participation in faculty teaching, in the context of a didactic training module, is negotiable.
The successful applicant is invited to perform research in the project COSMOS: Code Switching on Social Media, but may also propose her/his own research project. Social media, such as the microblogging platform Twitter, are characterised by the abundant use of foreign words from English,Morrocan, Turkish, etc. In the COSMOS project, we investigate this so-called `code-switching' and how it spreads over Dutch tweets. By investigating a huge dataset of 1.7 billion Dutch tweets, we want to answer research questions such as whether more English is used by Dutch twitterers, how languages such as Morrocan and Turkish spread over Twitter, who uses dialect, etc. As it is impossible to process all this data manually, we will develop novel computational methods for identifying code switching on social media. The supervisors of the PhD are dr. Gosse Bouma, dr. Martijn Wieling and prof. Gertjan van Noord. The candidate may also propose her/his own research project in the area of computational linguistics linking to the research areas of the three supervisors.
As a member of the Graduate School for the Humanities, a PhD candidate may participate in courses, seminars and summer schools organized by Dutch national graduate school Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde (LOT) and/or by the Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN).
Linguistic research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen is organized in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). The proposed PhD research must be closely connected with research currently carried out within the Computational Linguistics group of the CLCG. Please see the website of CLCG for additional information: www.rug.nl/research/clcg
For questions regarding the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, please contact Prof. G.J.M. van Noord, email: g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl
The successful applicant is committed to conducting independent and original scientific research, to report on this research in international publications and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD dissertation. The PhD students participate in local, national and international training activities, including summer schools and conferences, to maximally develop their potential. Some participation in faculty teaching, in the context of a didactic training module, is negotiable.
The successful applicant is invited to perform research in the project COSMOS: Code Switching on Social Media, but may also propose her/his own research project. Social media, such as the microblogging platform Twitter, are characterised by the abundant use of foreign words from English,Morrocan, Turkish, etc. In the COSMOS project, we investigate this so-called `code-switching' and how it spreads over Dutch tweets. By investigating a huge dataset of 1.7 billion Dutch tweets, we want to answer research questions such as whether more English is used by Dutch twitterers, how languages such as Morrocan and Turkish spread over Twitter, who uses dialect, etc. As it is impossible to process all this data manually, we will develop novel computational methods for identifying code switching on social media. The supervisors of the PhD are dr. Gosse Bouma, dr. Martijn Wieling and prof. Gertjan van Noord. The candidate may also propose her/his own research project in the area of computational linguistics linking to the research areas of the three supervisors.
As a member of the Graduate School for the Humanities, a PhD candidate may participate in courses, seminars and summer schools organized by Dutch national graduate school Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde (LOT) and/or by the Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN).
Linguistic research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen is organized in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). The proposed PhD research must be closely connected with research currently carried out within the Computational Linguistics group of the CLCG. Please see the website of CLCG for additional information: www.rug.nl/research/clcg
For questions regarding the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, please contact Prof. G.J.M. van Noord, email: g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl
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Requirements
Your qualifications are:
• a master's degree in linguistics, computational linguistics, information science, artificial intelligence or computer science with an excellent academic record
• proven research abilities and affinity with the research topic
• excellent command of English and good academic writing skills.
• a master's degree in linguistics, computational linguistics, information science, artificial intelligence or computer science with an excellent academic record
• proven research abilities and affinity with the research topic
• excellent command of English and good academic writing skills.
Conditions of employment
Fixed-term contract: 48 months.
The PhD training programmeThe University of Groningen offers this scholarship (1.0 FTE) for a PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics for a period of 4 years. Every year progress is assessed in order to ensure timely completion. The PhD student will participate in the Faculty’s GSH training programme for PhD students (cf. https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-humanities/) and will draw up a personal training and supervision plan. Part of the training consists in following the Career Perspectives curriculum, which aims to prepare students for their (academic or non-academic) careers after the PhD trajectory.
Information about the PhD training programme and scholarship can be found via:
https://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/
Start date: 1 September 2018
Department
Faculty of Arts
Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has established an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative university offering high-quality teaching and research. Its 30,000 students are encouraged to develop their own individual talents through challenging study and career paths. The University of Groningen is an international center of knowledge: it belongs to the best research universities in Europe and is allied with prestigious partner universities and networks worldwide.The Graduate School for the Humanities is the home for all PhD candidates of the Faculty of Arts (circa 200), and is committed to creating and maintaining excellent conditions for PhD research in all fields of the humanities. In addition to organizing local courses, the GSH works closely with 16 national research schools which offer regular courses and seminars by national and international top researchers.
