The Computional Linguistics Group at Bielefeld University is seeking
applications for a
** Full-time (100%) Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student position **
to work in a newly established project on measuring linguistic
creativity across literary and non-literary genres with quantitative,
corpus-based methods. The project is part of a newly established
Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1646) on “Linguistic Creativity in
Communication” funded by the German Research Agency (DFG) for 4 years.
The project asks how the originality and success of linguistic signs
vary depending on textual cues and are mediated by a spectrum of popular
and artistic genre contexts such as travel blogs, popular fiction and
literary novels. Focusing on the domain of descriptions of spatial
entities across all genres, we aim to develop data-driven metrics and
models that automatically identify creative signs at sentence, paragraph
and text level. It will be carried out by the Computational Linguistics
Group (Prof. Sina Zarrieß) and the Computational Literary Studies Group
(Prof. Berenike Herrmann) at Bielefeld University, and will encompass
stylistic, experimental and computational methods.
The announced position will be focusing on computational aspects of
measuring linguistic creativity. The main task will be to develop
sentence embedding models that disentangle style and content, based on
language models for different literary and non-literary genres. In
addition, the PhD student will carry out work on the analysis of
linguistic creativity in large language models, in collaboration with
other projects of the CRC.
The duration of the position is about 3,5 years (until end of 2027).
Salary is 100% TVL-E13 scale (about 4.000,- EUR per month before taxes,
depending on relevant work experience).
Bielefeld is the vibrant center of the region of East Westphalia and
Germany’s greenest big city with a lot of cultural, entertainment, and
recreational opportunities. It is located in the center of Germany,
surrounded by beautiful forests, and connected to Germany’s high-speed
rail system. Bielefeld University is a strong research-oriented
university with more than 20.000 students and a famous commitment to
interdisciplinary research. It hosts major research centers such as the
Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) or the Center for
Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF).
Application deadline is 25th of January, but later applications will be
considered too until the position has been filled. If you are interested
to learn more about the position, please get in contact with Sina Zarrieß
([email protected]).
For information on how to apply please refer to:
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3067/research-positions?page_lang=en
More information on the CRC:
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/forschung/projekte/crc1646
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Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
Computational Linguistics
https://sinazarriess.github.io/
University of Bielefeld
Universitätsstr. 25
33615 Bielefeld, Germany
+49 521 106-2534
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