November 2023 - Corpora

2nd Call for abstracts UniDive 2nd general meeting, Naples, Italy, 7-9 February 2024
by Victoria Bobicev 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

2nd Call for abstracts UniDive 2nd general meeting, University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy, 7-9 February 2024 UniDive <https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/> is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The second general meeting <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:2nd_…> of the action will take place on February 7-9, 2024 at the University of Naples L'Orientale <http://www.unior.it/> <http://www.unior.it/>in Italy. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English, and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs, but in the submission form, only one WG can be selected as the main one. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers' effort, we encourage authors to use the Overleaf Latex template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw>. Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link will be announced soon. The submission link is: https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/General_Meeting The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 2nd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 October 2023: Call for abstracts - 24 November 2023: Submission deadline - 15 December 2023: Notification of acceptance - 20 December 2023: Communication of the names of the presenters - 12 January 2024: Final versions of abstracts - 7-9 February 2024: UniDive 2nd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, no extension of the submission deadline is foreseen. Program Chairs - Victoria Bobicev, Technical University of Moldova (Moldova) - Johanna Monti, University of Naples L'Orientale (Italy) - Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

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PhD Positions on Bias and Fairness, Social Network Analysis and Mining, and others!!
by Roshni Chakraborty 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Dear All, We are looking for PhD applicants for our Computational Social Science Group (https://css.cs.ut.ee/) ! So, if you are interested, please write to us and if you know someone who might be interested, please spread the word!! We are interested in topics related to misinformation, media biasness, fairness and explainability on computational journalism and online social media. We are also open to other topics if they overlap with the interests of our group. Why join us? ==================== You'll be a part of Estonia's esteemed Institute of Computer Science (https://cs.ut.ee/en), University of Tartu, which is in the modern Delta Centre (https://delta.ut.ee/en/), a beacon of technological innovation and research excellence. Relevant Information ==================== The gross salary is 2000 euros per month for four years. We will support research related travels and there is no tuition fees for PhD students. A master's degree is required. Additionally, candidates with good implementation skills and previous experience in large scale dataset analysis, text mining, machine learning algorithms will be preferred. Please drop a mail for any query or to show your interests at contact(a)css.cs.ut.ee<mailto:contact@css.cs.ut.ee> or roshni.chakraborty(a)ut.ee<mailto:roshni.chakraborty@ut.ee> or rajesh.sharma(a)ut.ee<mailto:rajesh.sharma@ut.ee> ! Kind Regards, Roshni Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu, Estonia

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Second CFP-The Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages -(DravidianLangTech-2024) at EACL 2024
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Apologies for cross posting The Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages -(DravidianLangTech-2024) at EACL 2024 Link: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2024/home The development of technology increases our internet use, and most of the global languages have adapted themselves to the digital era. However, there are many regional, under-resourced languages that face challenges as they still lack developments in language technology. One such language family is the Dravidian family of languages. Dravidian languages <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages> are primarily spoken in south India and Sri Lanka. Pockets of speakers are found in Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, other parts of India and elsewhere in the world. The Dravidian languages, which are 4,500 years old and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. The Dravidian languages are divided into four groups: South, South-Central, Central, and North groups. Dravidian morphology is agglutinating and exclusively suffixal. Syntactically, Dravidian languages are head-final and left-branching. They are free-constituent order languages. To improve access to and production of information for monolingual speakers of Dravidian languages, it is necessary to have speech and language technologies. The aim of these workshops is to save the Dravidian languages from extinction in technology. This is the first workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages. The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2024 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for Dravidian languages. - To promote research in speech and language technology in Dravidian languages. - To adopt appropriate language technology models which suit Dravidian languages. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the Dravidian language community from around the world to collaborate with other researchers. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create Language Technologies (LT) of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. Call for Papers DravidianLangTech-2024 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Code-mixing/ Code-switching - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation - COVID-19 alert, NLP Applications for Emergency Situations and Crisis Management - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - Fake New, Spam, and Rumor Detection - Hate speech detection and Offensive Language Detection - Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries - Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics - Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis, and Text summarization - Multimodal Analysis- Image Captioning and Video Captioning - Speech technology and Automatic Speech Recognition Important dates - Workshop paper due: *December 12, 2023* - Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference): January 17, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 25 2024 - Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/DravidianLangTe… with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachak…

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Invitation to join webinar: "Breaking ground: Discussing the present and the future of Data-driven learning" - December 4
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Breaking ground: Discussing the present and the future of Data-driven learning – Online seminar December 4, 2023, 10:00 - 13:00 This online seminar aims to provide a stage for new voices to share their experiences on DDL research and their vision for its development. It is the result of a collaboration between the ATILF/University of Lorraine and the University of Murcia to bring together current and innovative research from current and future specialists in DDL . The webinar will take place on 4th December 2023 and it will consist of a 2-hour session in which early-career researchers will present their novel takes on DDL, followed by a 1-hour roundtable with experienced researchers (Alex Boulton-U. Lorraine, Elisa Corino-U. Torino and Pascual Pérez-Paredes -U. Murcia) and everyone involved in the webinar. Click below to register. It’s free. https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DuBwB0RnSUGzGfsxJ2i8jw#/registr… For speakers and more details: https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/breaking-ground/ Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf/<https://webs.um.es/pascualf/miwiki/doku.php>

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Deadline approaching: Assistant/associate professor in NLP, ITU Copenhagen
by Christian Hardmeier 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Assistant/Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing IT University of Copenhagen Application deadline: 26 November 2023 The computer science department at the IT University of Copenhagen is recruiting a new faculty member to join the natural language processing group. Candidates from any background and all areas of natural language processing are very welcome to apply! ITU is a small university with a motivated and engaged student community in Copenhagen, a city that consistently ranks as one of the most livable places in the world. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me: chrha(a)itu.dk<mailto:chrha@itu.dk> More information and application link in the official job posting: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… Website of the NLP group at ITU: https://nlpnorth.github.io/ -- Christian Hardmeier, Associate Professor – https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/ IT University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science

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Second Call for Papers: The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
by Sophie Henning 18 Nov '23

18 Nov '23

***Second Call for Papers*** **Overview** Submission page: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/ Website: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/ E-mail: law-xviii-2024(a)googlegroups.com **Workshop Description** LAW-XVIII will be the 18th annual meeting endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN). It will take place in March 2024 at EACL in St. Julians, Malta. Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. The LAW-XVIII will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. The LAW will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. In line with the EACL main conference, LAW will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. **Special Theme** The special theme of LAW-XVIII is “Annotation in the Age of Large Language Models (LLMs).” In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the following topics: - Comparison of linguistically annotated datasets vs. datasets created using large language models. Potential topics include: - Comparison of models that have been trained on the respective datasets - Impact of data size of manually annotated resources already available prior to dataset creation with LLMs - Is synthetic dataset creation a viable option for non-standard domains, e.g., the medical domain, where expert knowledge is required? - Non-performance-related considerations of manual vs. synthetic dataset creation (e.g., explainability) - Impact and prevention of test dataset contamination in LLM training - Usefulness of LLMs for linguistic research (in relation to annotation). - Any other topics related to the special theme. **Submissions** We accept both direct submissions and commitments from ACL Rolling Review (ARR). We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: - Annotation procedures - Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation - Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation - Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data - Annotation evaluation - Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies - Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations - Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality - Annotation access and use - Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them - Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena - Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards - New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes - Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development - Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes - Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages - Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation - Annotation software and frameworks - Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Note: The supplementary material does not count towards page limit and should not be included in the paper, but should be submitted separately using the appropriate field on the submission website. All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors’ identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop co-chairs (law-xviii-2024(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. We follow previous and current ACL policy to establish an anonymity period (from submission to author notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite published versions of papers instead of preprint versions when possible. Papers can be submitted at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs via e-mail or check the workshop website (https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/) for updates. **Dates** (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) Anonymity period starts: November 18, 2023 Submission of long and short papers: December 18, 2023 ARR Commitment deadline: January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Workshop: March 21 or 22, 2024 **Workshop Organizers** Manfred Stede (Program Co-Chair) Sophie Henning (Program Co-Chair) Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President) Ines Rehbein (ACL SIGANN Secretary)

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Invitation to the 1st Linguistics Biennial Conference (Kuwait University)
by lsbc＠ku.edu.kw 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Dear all, I am delighted to invite you to The 1st Linguistics Studies Biennial Conference (LSBC 2024), organised by the Department of English Language and Literature (DELL) at Kuwait University, Kuwait. The conference will take place on March 4-5, 2024. The theme of the conference is " Current trends in applied linguistic research: corpus and AI perspectives". The conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators from various disciplines and fields related to applied linguistics, such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language policy, and intercultural communication. LSBC’s keynote speakers are: 1. Professor Stefan TH. Gries 2. Professor Jukka Tyrkko 3. Dr Teresa Lynn 4. Dr Robbie Love 5. Dr Tobias Bernaisch If you are registering as an attendee, kindly follow this link: https://forms.office.com/r/ashhu17hsP In order to participate, please email your paper, abstract, or research findings to: lsbc(a)ku.edu.kw Venue: The Pearl at Kuwait University Submission deadline: 10 December 2023 Announcement of accepted talks: 2 January 2024 By accepting this invitation, you have the opportunity to showcase your knowledge and expertise to a wider audience. As renowned scholars and experts in your fields, we believe that your insights and perspectives will greatly enrich the conference and inspire the participants. If you are interested in participating in our upcoming conference, please take a moment to submit your papers or abstracts. Your contributions are highly encouraged. Furthermore, I kindly request that you share the information regarding the conference with your network. You can send it through your academic channels, such as email lists, social media groups, or academic journals, to ensure that as many colleagues and students as possible are aware of the opportunity. Sharing the website link and our Twitter account would be very helpful in increasing the visibility of LSBC 2024. X (Twitter) account: @lsbcatdell Website: http://kuweb.ku.edu.kw/ICL/index.htm I look forward to hearing from you soon and hope that you will join us at LSBC 2024. If you have any questions or require any further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Thank you for your cooperation. Best regards, Dr Mohammad Alenezi Conference Chair

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Postdoc in cognitive modelling of language processing at Saarland University
by Vera Demberg 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

2-year postdoctoral position We are inviting applications for one postdoctoral position (funding available until 01/2026, start date flexible; contract renewal may be possible afterwards) of a computer scientist, cognitive scientist, computational linguist or psycholinguist, who has experience with or interest in experimental research and/or cognitive modelling for language processing (e.g., Bayesian models, and/or models using cognitive architectures like ACT-R; the use of LLMs and their combination with cognitive architectures will also be explored). The position will be funded as part of the ERC Starting Grant "Individualized Interaction in Discourse" of Prof. Vera Demberg, at Saarland University. The goal of the position is to develop models that capture individual differences in discourse and pragmatic processing. The candidate will conduct research on the design and implementation of psycholinguistic experiments and/or cognitive models of language processing at the level of discourse and/or pragmatic processing. These models should capture individual differences in cognition such as working memory, language experience, background knowledge, theory-of-mind abilities etc. The successful applicant must have excellent spoken and written proficiency in English, and have a background in natural language processing or cognitive modelling. This is a position on the German TV-L E13 scale (100% position at the postdoc level). The starting salary of a 100% TV-L E13 position is a bit over 50,000 Euros per year and increases with experience. The initial appointment will be for three years; the position can be extended up to the limits of the German law for academic contracts (WissZeitVG). The starting date is January 2024 or later; we would be willing to adapt to the time requirements of an ideal candidate. About the research environment Saarland University is one of the leading centers for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. Saarland University is one of the leading centres for computer science and computational linguistics in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The group is affiliated with both the Department of Computer Science, with the Department of Language Science and Technology and with the MPI for Informatics. The department is a core member of the new Research Training Group "Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action", which is on track to grow into one of the largest centers for research on neurosymbolic models in NLP and other fields of AI in the world. It is also the centerpiece of the Collaborative Research Center 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" and part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus, such as the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2100 students from 81 countries; SIC faculty have won 36 ERC grants. Saarland University is located in Saarbrücken, a mid-sized city in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Saarbrücken combines a lively culture scene with a relaxed atmosphere, and is quite an affordable place to live in. Our department maintains an international and diverse work environment. The primary working language is English; learning German while you are here will make it easier to connect with the local culture, but is not necessary for your work. How to apply Please submit your application by email to applications-vd(a)lst.uni-saarland.de. Preference will be given to applications received by *6 December 2023*. Please quote opening number W2403 in your application materials. Include a single PDF file with the following information: • a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research agenda; • a full CV including your list of publications; • scans of transcripts and academic degree certificates; • the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you. Saarland University especially welcomes applications from women and people with disabilities. If you have further questions, please email Vera Demberg <demberg(a)lst.uni-saarland.de>.

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Postdoctoral position in natural language processing, Univ. Lorraine, Nancy, France
by Mathieu Constant 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). Topic: Discovery of multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts using large language models Location: ATILF, Nancy, France Starting date: from February 2024 Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year) Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Agata Savary (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France) Salary: depends on experience after PhD and salary grids, from 3070 (<2-year experience) to 4465 euros (>7-year-experience) before tax Application deadline: 5th December 2023 Subject. The term « multiword expression » refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years. The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate new methods for discovering multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts, in order to enrich an induced semantic lexicon with new multiword entries, definitions, argumental structure, and other properties. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLM) opens new promising perspectives for multiword expressions, not only regarding their semantic compositionality but also their linguistic characterization. The methods will be primarily experimented on French, but other languages are also possible. Context. The position is part of the SELEXINI project (https://selexini.lis-lab.fr <https://selexini.lis-lab.fr/>, 2022-2026) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The goal of the SELEXINI project is to develop next-generation lexicon induction methods for natural language processing. The induced lexicons will not only cluster word usages according to their senses, but also contain multiword expressions, argumental structure, generated definitions, etc, combining the power of large pre-trained language models and existing lexical resources to address the lack of interpretability and diversity in current language technology. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team. Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis in computer science, in applied mathematics, in natural language processing, or in computational linguistics. Applications from PhD students planning their defense by December 31st, 2023 are also welcome. The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills: expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models excellent programming skills good linguistic skills good knowledge of French would be a plus team spirit Application. The applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommendation, a transcript of Master grades, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN>. The applications should be submitted not later than December 5.

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Postdoc in NLP or psycholinguistics at Saarland University
by Vera Demberg 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Research and teaching position at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Start date: early 2024 Contract duration: 3 years (can be extended) Payscale: E13 100% (postdoc) We are looking to fill a research and teaching position in NLP or psycholinguistics at the at the research group of Prof. Vera Demberg. It offers great flexibility in developing your own research and teaching agenda, and collaborations with other research groups within the department of Language Science and Technology and/or at the department of Computer Science are encouraged. The position is flexible with respect to topic, but it should connect thematically with current topics of interest to the research group. These include neural natural language generation with specific focus on data-to-text generation, avoidance of hallucinations and personalized language generation, as well as computational models of discourse processing and pragmatics. Psycholinguistic experimental work within our group revolves around information-theoretic accounts of human language processing, as well as discourse processing and experimental pragmatics. We are especially interested in individual differences in discourse and pragmatic processing (see also our ERC project "Individualized Interaction in Discourse"). You should have expertise in neural and/or linguistically principled methods in NLP, or experimental methods for psycholinguistics. The position includes a teaching load of up to four hours per week and can be given within the BSc or MSc programs in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Our study programs attract excellent and highly motivated students; it is not unusual for our students to publish papers at peer-reviewed conferences before graduation. The MSc students in particular are a very international crowd, with two thirds joining us from abroad. You will typically teach one seminar per semester on a topic of your choice, which will allow you to motivate students to do BSc and MSc theses under your supervision. This is a position on the German TV-L E13 scale (100% position at the postdoc level). The starting salary of a 100% TV-L E13 position is a bit over 50,000 Euros per year and increases with experience. The initial appointment will be for three years; the position can be extended up to the limits of the German law for academic contracts (WissZeitVG). The starting date is January 2024 or later; we would be willing to adapt to the time requirements of an ideal candidate. Requirements We are looking for candidates who have finished, or are about to complete, an excellent PhD degree in computational linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics or a related discipline. You must be proficient in English (spoken and written). Applicants should have demonstrated their research expertise through high-quality publications. About the research environment Saarland University is one of the leading centers for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. The department is a core member of the new Research Training Group "Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action", which is on track to grow into one of the largest centers for research on neurosymbolic models in NLP and other fields of AI in the world. It is also the centerpiece of the Collaborative Research Center 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" and part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus, such as the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2100 students from 81 countries; SIC faculty have won 36 ERC grants. Saarland University is located in Saarbrücken, a mid-sized city in the tri-border area of Germany, France, and Luxembourg. Saarbrücken combines a lively culture scene with a relaxed atmosphere, and is quite an affordable place to live in. Our department maintains an international and diverse work environment. The primary working language is English; learning German while you are here will make it easier to connect with the local culture, but is not necessary for your work. How to apply: Please submit your application by email to applications-vd(a)lst.uni-saarland.de. Preference will be given to applications received by 6 December 2023. Please cite opening number 2402 when sending in your application materials. Include a single PDF file with the following information: • a statement of research interests that motivates why you are applying for this position and outlines your research agenda; • a full CV including your list of publications; • scans of transcripts and academic degree certificates; • the names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of two people who can provide letters of reference for you. Saarland University especially welcomes applications from women and people with disabilities. If you have further questions, please email Vera Demberg <demberg(a)lst.uni-saarland.de>.

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