25 August: fyi -- Phd Funding, Germany
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PhD-position in Multilingual Natural Language Generation available
A full-time 3-year PhD Stipendium for a PhD-dissertation and research
work in MULTILINGUAL NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION is immediately
available at the UNIVERSITY oF BREMEN under the supervision of Prof.
Dr. John BATEMAN. The successful applicant will work on the
construction of a set of parallel generation grammars for German,
Dutch, Danish and Bremer Platt. Good knowledge of at least two of
these languages will be a distinct advantage--necessary knowledge of
the others will be imported from cooperation projects, in which the
successful applicant will also be expected to participate. The method
and development platform for the work will be the KPML grammar
development environment for multilingual systemic-functional grammars
(cf. Bateman, 1997, "Enabling technology for multilingual natural
language generation: the KPML development environment", Journal of
Natural Language Engineering 3 (1):15--55): a full introduction to
this tool and support throughout the research period will be
provided. Focused topics for the dissertation include but are not
limited to:
* issues of natural language engineering for managing large-scale
multilingual generation grammars,
* issues in contrastive functional language typology,
* grammatical and lexical choice in multilingual generation,
* symbolic authoring with multiple languages,
* multilingual sentence and text planning.
Interested candidates should contact John Bateman at the e-mail
address below for further details. Candidates will need to be able to
start as soon as possible.
John A. Bateman
bateman@uni-bremen.de
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