The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Linguistics.
Information about the institution
The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) at the University of Gothenburg is home to a large number of national and international research projects and offers courses and degree programs for philosophers, logicians, linguists, language technologists, theorists of science, historians of philosophy, philologists and philosophy teachers.
Linguistics is a subject authorised to award qualifications at all levels, including in third-cycle studies. At the department, there is also the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), funded by a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2015-2025). CLASP is devoted to research and advanced training in the application of probabilistic modelling and machine learning methods to core issues in linguistic theory and cognition.
The department offers an international English-speaking research environment. The research is interdisciplinary and aims at bringing together insights from various fields such as logic, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, philology, and philosophy.
Job description:
The current position is within the area of Linguistics at the department. Linguistic interaction is the main overarching theme for research in linguistics at FLoV. The focus is on conversational dialogue as a research topic within psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and language technology/computational linguistics. The ideal candidate should be motivated to develop an original PhD thesis project in any single or combination of these fields.
We will fund one well-qualified and highly motivated candidate to carry out research using experimental and/or formal methods on any of the following general topics in relation to dialogue modelling and/or grammar design:
- Incremental processing in conversation
- Multimodal phenomena
- Theories of joint action and linguistic meaning
- Context and common ground
- Probabilistic models of inference and linguistic processing
- Dialogue acts
- Turn-taking
We are looking for candidates who have solid prior experience in linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. More particularly, demonstrable ability and experience in the modelling of, or experimentation with dialogue phenomena is highly desirable. The candidate should be able to provide evidence of the ability for conducting original independent research. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply.
How to apply:
In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system:
https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validat...
It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement and that it is submitted before the deadline. The selection of candidates is made on the basis of the qualifications registered in the application.
Further information:
Queries about the recruitment process should be directed to Jennifer Stråle, HR Administrator, jennifer.strale@gu.se
Queries about possible topics for study should be directed to Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Professor of Linguistics, +46 31-786 52 33, eleni.gregoromichelaki@gu.se
IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is: 15 September 2022
all the best
Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Professor of Linguistics
Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV)
University of Gothenburg
Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6
Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33
From: Eleni Gregoromichelaki eleni.gregoromichelaki@gu.se Sent: 12 July 2022 07:55 To: sigsem@list.rug.nl sigsem@list.rug.nl; iva-list@lists.uni-bielefeld.de iva-list@lists.uni-bielefeld.de; sigdial@list.sigdial.org sigdial@list.sigdial.org; semantik@uni-duesseldorf.de semantik@uni-duesseldorf.de; folli@folli.info folli@folli.info; amlap-list@coli.uni-sb.de amlap-list@coli.uni-sb.de; corpora@uib.no corpora@uib.no; sentproc@lists.qc.cuny.edu sentproc@lists.qc.cuny.edu; Eleni Gregoromichelaki eleni.gregoromichelaki@gu.se Subject: SemDial 2022: deadline extension for short papers ** Short papers SemDial 2022 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 **
--------------------------------------------------------------- SemDial 2022 - DubDial THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE https://semdial2022.github.io/ 22-24 August 2022 Dublin // Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- DubDial will be the 26th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
In 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date.
*WEBSITE:* https://semdial2022.github.io/
This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology.
*SCOPE:* We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to:
- the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - common ground / mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair - applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena - enactive approaches to interaction - dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective
*INVITED SPEAKERS:* Mark H. Bickhard Yvette Graham Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
*DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions*
We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022*
Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website:
https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call#
Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop.
*IMPORTANT DATES:* Short paper submissions due: 22 July 2022 Notification: 25 July 2022 Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022
*REGISTRATION* Registration is now open: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration# DubDial - SemDial 2022 SemDial 2022 (LondonLogue) - The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. TUD, August 22-24th, 2022 semdial2022.github.io
*RELATED EVENTS* The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website:
https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html
*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin) Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022@gmail.com
*LOCAL ORGANISATION:* John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. Contact: organisers.semdial2022@gmail.com
*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng
*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg)) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/
Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33