This is a call for a funded, three-year PhD position in Athens, Greece at the “Archimedes” Center for Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms (https://www.athenarc.gr/en/archimedes). Through “Archimedes” Greece is expected to be at the forefront of science, in a field of knowledge whose importance is constantly increasing and now has multifaceted applications across the spectrum of economy, society, industry, etc.
The successful candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team who focus on the processing of under-resourced language varieties. The main objective of this position is to develop morphologically, syntactically and probably semantically annotated corpora for Greek dialectal varieties, use them for comparative studies of language models and infuse neural models with knowledge from linguistics. Background required: (Near-)native knowledge of Modern Greek, Degree in Linguistics (or equivalent, degree in Modern Greek Linguistics is preferred), background in Corpus Annotation for NLP purposes (morphology and/or syntax), Python programming, familiarity with Machine Learning principles. The candidates should have completed or be close to complete a relevant MA or MSc course. Desired qualifications: Studies in formal and computational linguistics, experience in the formal analysis of language, experience with NLP and ML tools. Contact: Stella Markantonatou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, "Athena" Research Center, GR, https://www.ilsp.gr/en/members/markantonatou-stella-2/), [email protected] Deadline: 14 May 2023 _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
