dear colleagues,

in the context of an upcoming research project (TRAVOLTA – Tracing Attitudes and Variation in Online Luxembourgish Text Archives) we currently have two open positions for doctoral candidates with a background in nlp, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics or variationist linguistics. the candidates will be members of the department of humanities at the university of luxembourg.

the project will be the first to monitor the development of luxembourgish into a fully-fledged written language using data from the rtl.lu news portal. we will develop state-of-the-art tools and pipelines for nlp purposes and use them to trace variation and social stances in written text.

additional information about the project can be found herehttps://purschke.info/en/travolta/.

it would be great if you could share the positions in your respective networks. please also feel free to reach out should you have any questions regarding the positions or would be interested in applying.

both positions will be filled for 3 + 1 years max. with a current yearly salary of roughly 38k €. given the multilingual setup of the university and the special requirements of the project, candidates should have proficiency in english and german (intermediate), luxembourgish will be an asset, of course.

thx & cheers christoph

Position 1)

Doctoral candidate in in Computational Linguistics / Variationist Linguistics

* Full profile: http://emea3.mrted.ly/39skj * Research in the field of Computational/Variationist Linguistics with a focus on variation in written Luxembourgish * Background in * * Either: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related field with prior experience in working with language data * Or: Linguistics, Variationist Linguistics, or a related field with prior experience in data science applications (NLP, Python, r)

Position 2)

Doctoral candiate in Computational Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

* Full profile: http://emea3.mrted.ly/39snq

* Research in the field of Computational Linguistics/Sociolinguistics with a focus on attitudes & stances in written luxembourgish * Background in * Either: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or a related field with prior experience in working with language data * Or: Sociolinguistics, Linguistics, or a related field with prior experience in data science applications (NLP, Python, r)

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Christoph Purschke Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics

Head of the Culture & Computation Lab

Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG

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