23 March: FYI -- PhD funding, lexical semantics (Toulouse & Nancy, FR)
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3 years PhD position starting next Fall at the CLLE CNRS lab (Toulouse)
Specialty Areas: Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Language Resources,
Computational Linguistics
We invite applications for a 3 years PhD position funded by the French
National Research Funding Agency (ANR) as part of the “Demonext: Derivational
Morphology in Extension” project.
The project aims to build Demonette, a large-scale French morphological
database which systematically describes derivational relations between words.
The relations form an interconnected network whose edges and vertices bear
numerous and rich descriptions: morphosemantic, morphosyntactic,
morphophonological, derivational, distributional, statistics, etc. The
database will be fed by large scale lexical resources covering a variety of
French morphological processes that were created by morphologists as part of
academic studies. The original combination of information offered by Demonette
will meet multiple needs: empirical confirmation of morphological hypotheses,
elaboration of new hypotheses, development of NLP tools, vocabulary
instruction, treatment of developmental and acquired language disorders.
As part of this project, the PhD will focus on the semantic description of
lexemes and derivational relationships between lexemes. This will include the
definition of a set of morphosemantic types relevant to morphology, the
description of the lexical meaning of the morphological relations present
within the derivational families, and the proposition of a formal framework
for the semantic representation of these relations. The description will
exploit the semantic information described in existing resources like
FrameNet, WordNet, RLF, etc. The work will also include an application
component directly related to the construction of the Demonette resource, in
addition to the more theoretical component on the organization of
morphosemantic relationships in derivation.
The PhD will include an applied component related to the development of the
Demonette resource, and a more theoretical part focusing the organization of
morphosemantic relations in derivation.
The candidate should hold a Master degree in natural language processing,
linguistics, cognitive science, computer science, or a related field and have
some knowledge of derivational morphology (especially of French) and of
lexical semantics. The candidate is expected to have a good command of French,
and good academic writing and presentation skills. Good programming skills
(Python, SQL) and some familiarity with FrameNet, WordNet and with formal
semantics skills would be welcome.
The thesis may be written in French or English, however, the activities at the
doctoral school are in French.
The PhD will be co-supervised by Nabil Hathout at the CLLE laboratory in
Toulouse (http://clle.univ-tlse2.fr/) and by Fiammetta Namer at the ATILF
laboratory in Nancy (http://www.atilf.fr/). The successful candidate will be
based in Toulouse but will make regular trips to Nancy.
The monthly salary is 1400 euros after taxes.
Expressions of interest, together with a CV, transcripts, and contact details
of two referees should be sent to Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr and
Fiammetta.Namer@univ-lorraine.fr.
Application Deadline: 30-Jun-2018
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CLLE/ERSS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Maison de la Recherche. F-31058 Toulouse cedex 9
Tél. (+33) 561-503-603. Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr
http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/membre/hathout/
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