Dear colleagues,

Please disseminate our PhD position vacancy to any interested students: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Modelling-Word-Order-and-Co...

It is a 4-year PhD position starting in September or October and the deadline is May 31st, 2024.

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Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research environment? Are you interested in using state of the art language technology to advance research in cognitive science and linguistics? If you imagine yourself in a PhD position at the crossroads of experimental research and natural language processing, then you should apply for this position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) of the University of Amsterdam.

We work on understanding the nature of human language using state-of-the-art language models as tools. In this project you will combine experiments and distributional semantic modelling to investigate patterns of variation in word order (e.g. the order of Subject, Object and Verb) in the languages of the world, and the cognitive/learning biases that drive these patterns.

Have a look at the full vacancy text for more information. Applications can also be submitted on the vacancy webpage: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Modelling-Word-Order-and-Co...

--- Best regards, Jelke Bloem University of Amsterdam