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Ph.D. student position on "learning language through dialogue", Tilburg (The Netherlands), Deadline: 30 Aug 2016

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PhD position at Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC)
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The Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) invites
applications for a PhD position for the project "Learning Language
through Dialogue". The goal of the project is to study the influence
of communicative interaction on language development, and to
investigate how linguistic constructions are acquired through
conversation. This will be pursued by applying a multi-disciplinary
approach that combines analyzing child-adult interaction data and
developing computational models that simulate the process of
construction learning through interaction.

For more information about the project and the vacant PhD position,
contact the project supervisors Afra Alishahi from Tilburg University
(a.alishahi@tilburguniversity.com) and Raquel Fernandez from
University of Amsterdam (raquel.fernandez@uva.nl).

You can apply for this position here:
http://tinyurl.com/phd-position-afra-raquel

REQUIREMENTS

We seek enthusiastic candidates with a background in Computational
Linguistics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computational
Cognitive Science, or a related discipline.

General requirements: The successful candidate has a Master?s degree
in one of the aforementioned areas, a strong interest in doing
research, excellent writing skills and a good command of English. In
addition, the candidate has proven experience with developing
computational techniques and models for processing language. Given the
multidisciplinary nature of the research project, the successful
candidate is willing and able to work across disciplinary boundaries.

WHAT WE OFFER

Tilburg University is rated among the top Dutch employers, offering
excellent terms of employment. The collective labour agreement of
Tilburg University applies. The PhD project will be carried within the
Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), one of the five
centers of excellence at Tilburg University. TiCC combines two strong
research programs: Creative Computing (CC), including research in
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Intelligent
Systems, and Language, Communication and Cognition (LCC), including
research in Cognitive Science, Communication and Discourse Studies.
The unique combination of these two research programs enables TiCC to
work on research projects in which computer-based techniques of
modelling and processing (big) data are combined with experimentally
elicited human data.

The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Dialogue
Modelling Group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
(ILLC), University of Amsterdam. The ILLC is a world-class
interdisciplinary research institute that aims at bringing together
insights from various fields concerned with information encoding and
processing, including logic, mathematics, computer science,
linguistics and computational linguistics.

The PhD candidate will be ranked in the Dutch university job ranking
system (UFO) as a PhD-student (promovendus) with a starting salary of
? 2.194.- gross per month in the first year, up to ? 2.801,- in the
fourth year (amounts full time). The selected candidate will start
with a contract for one year, concluded by an evaluation. Upon a
positive outcome of the first-year evaluation, the candidate will be
offered an employment contract for the remaining three years. It is
also possible to work 80% instead of full time. The selected candidate
is expected to have written a PhD thesis (which may be based on
articles) by the end of the contract.

APPLICATIONS

Applications should include:
- A cover letter (maximum two pages),
- Curriculum Vitae,
- Copy of the university marks (grade list),
- Names of two references.

Applications should be sent before August 30, 2016.
The project will start as soon as a suitable candidate is found.
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