20 May: fyi -- phd funding, computational linguistics (France)
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The ICAR lab proposes a PhD position in computational sociolinguistics at
ENS Lyon.
Social media such as Twitter propose new expression channels in which
speakers use language varieties that differ from standard spoken or written
forms. These varieties exhibit a high innovation rate and large
inter-speaker and inter-communities variabilities. Moreover, social media
give access to amounts of data, both linguistic and social, inconceivable
just a few years ago. The goal of this PhD is to study the variety of
French observed on Twitter from a sociolinguistic point of view, i.e. by
determining how the properties of the underlying social network shape the
linguistic variability. As the traditional sociolinguistic methods are not
designed to cope with large amounts of digital data, computational
approaches will have to be adopted.
This PhD is part of a large interdisciplinary project involving linguists,
computer scientists and network scientists. The PhD student will be based
at the ENS of lyon, in the ICAR lab (icar.univ-lyon2.fr), and will work in
close collaboration with the Inria-DANTE team (team.inria.fr/dante/).
Candidates are expected to have a background in linguistics/computer
science. A good knowledge of French is a prerequisite. Applications are due
before june 30th and should consist of a cover letter, a CV and at least
one recommendation letter. The PhD is founded for 3 years by the Aslan
labex (aslan.universite-lyon.fr). For further information or application
contact Jean-Philippe Magué (jean-philippe.mague@ens-lyon.fr)
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Jean-Philippe Magué
Maître de Conférences à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
+33 (0)4 37 37 63 13
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