PhD Studentship in Linguistics (2x available)

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PhD Studentship in Linguistics (2x out there)

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Provide DescriptionWe’re recruiting for 2 PhD Studentships in Linguistics within the Digital Humanities Institute, as a part of the brand new CASCADE Doctoral Community funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The community goals to coach early-stage researchers to develop and apply modern methodologies for Computational Evaluation of Semantic Change Throughout Totally different Environments (CASCADE), i.e. to establish, analyse and interrogate how that means is expressed in language in numerous contexts, with a shared deal with the impression of time (diachronic textual content analytics). Researchers within the community will encounter totally different theories of, and approaches to that means (structuralist, relational, distributional, cognitive, encyclopaedic, social) and learn the way these have an effect on the standards for judging success in textual content evaluation.MSCA Doctoral Networks are analysis and coaching programmes with the purpose of coaching extremely expert doctoral candidates, stimulating their creativity, enhancing their innovation capacities and boosting their employability in the long run. For CASCADE this implies responding to a expertise deficit within the educational, public and business sectors: the necessity for individuals in a position to retrieve, critically consider and make higher use of the big volumes of textual knowledge that characterise our up to date info society (the ‘knowledge deluge’).The 2 PhD studentships in linguistics on the College of Sheffield will probably be a part of the MSCA Doctoral Community known as CASCADE however the studentships will probably be funded by the UKRI Assure.CASCADE is promoting positions for 10 studentships inside its framework, primarily based at 5 collaborating universities (two studentships per college). Purposes for every place have to be submitted individually. It’s potential to use for multiple place, through which case the applicant should ship a separate electronic mail to Prof. James O’Sullivan (College Faculty Cork, mail: ), stating this and rating their most popular positions.Additional details about CASCADE and all 10 PhD studentships will be discovered right here:Particulars of the Studentships at The College of Sheffield are outlined under:PhD 1: Laptop-assisted exploration of lexicalisation by means of timeIf lexicalisation is the final stage within the formation of a brand new idea, the problem of finding emergent ideas can’t be lowered to detection of key phrases. Constructing on concept-modelling strategies developed and utilized for the Linguistic DNA mission, it can quickly be potential to design instruments to help within the location of pre-lexicalised ideas in longitudinal textual content collections akin to Early English Books On-line (EEBO-TCP) utilizing complicated and uncooked co-occurrence knowledge.The PhD candidate ought to: 1) discover computerized identification of lexicalisation in historic texts; 2) look at how that means parts could also be lexicalised as new phrases in present discourse, relating this to theoretical frameworks in linguistics; 3) apply historic lexical information to the evaluation of historic texts; 4) discover the potential of present instruments to establish moments of historic change in language. The PhD candidate can have entry to EEBO-TCP, ECCO, the British Library Historic Newspapers, and the GloWBE corpus. The PhD candidate may even have a possibility to undertake quick analysis secondments at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and the College of Cologne (Germany)The PhD candidate can have expertise of learning historic linguistics at undergraduate degree, and obtain specialised coaching from the Digital Humanities Institute. Anticipated Outcomes will embrace case research of particular lexicalisations; case research of strategies for figuring out lexicalisation, together with advisable finest apply; a re-evaluation of present accounts of lexicalisation.PhD 2: Automating the evaluation of ideas by means of timeWhat are the parts of a historically-important idea in its personal time? Is the product of a machine-built data-driven historic thesaurus totally different from that constructed by means of human instinct about that means? Taking ahead instruments and strategies of thesaurus creation together with automated distributional semantic strategies (e.g. phrase embedding), lexicographical strategies (e.g. Historic Thesaurus of English at Glasgow College), and linguistic idea modelling developed by the Linguistic DNA mission, this mission will discover the state-of-the-art and finest apply throughout a number of disciplines to assemble a historic thesaurus of English robotically utilizing massive historic datasets.The PhD candidate ought to: 1) comprehensively consider bottom-up, context-driven approaches to thesaurus creation; 2) synthesise, develop, and apply a brand new strategy to computerized thesaurus creation primarily based on a spread of present strategies throughout disciplines; 3) consider the success of those approaches in comparison with earlier approaches used alone. The PhD candidate can have entry to EEBO-TCP (together with semantic tagging utilizing SAMUELS); the Historic Thesaurus of English; ECCO; British Library Historic Newspapers; and the GloWBE corpus. The PhD candidate may even have a possibility to undertake quick analysis secondments on the College of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and the Meertens Institute (Netherlands).Anticipated outcomes will embrace a brand new computational methodology for robotically producing a historic thesaurus of English; case research implementing the brand new methodology; an evidenced account of the connection/variations between thesaurus creation throughout disciplines.Additional details about each studentships will be obtained from Dr Seth Mehl ( ).The posts are full time and stuck time period for 3 years from September 2024.NecessitiesAnalysis Subject Different Schooling Degree Grasp Diploma or equalAbilities/{Qualifications}Candidates for both PhD studentship ought to have:

• A Masters diploma in a related discipline (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, and so forth.). If the diploma isn’t but obtained on the time of utility, a press release by the applicant’s supervisor ought to affirm that it is going to be obtained by time of appointment.
• Demonstrable expertise in making use of computational strategies.
• Functionality to bridge the hole between knowledge science and the humanities.
• Sturdy analysis and analytical expertise.
• Potential to work independently.

Moreover, the profitable candidate should not have resided in the UK for greater than 12 months within the 36 months previous September 2024.Languages ENGLISH Degree GloriousFurther InfoAdvantagesThe studentship gives:● A wage of £47,573 each year for 3 years, which features a mobility allowance of £5,335, a residing allowance of £37,836 and, if relevant, a household allowance of £4,402● PhD tuition charges will probably be paid in full by CASCADE.To search out out extra about the advantages of working on the College, go toEligibility standardsA profitable candidate for both PhD studentship can have:

• A Masters diploma in a related discipline (e.g. linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, and so forth.). If the diploma isn’t but obtained on the time of utility, a press release by the applicant’s supervisor ought to affirm that it is going to be obtained by time of appointment.
• Demonstrable expertise in making use of computational strategies.
• Functionality to bridge the hole between knowledge science and the humanities.
• Sturdy analysis and analytical expertise.
• Potential to work independently.

Moreover, the profitable candidate should not have resided in the UK for greater than 12 months within the 36 months previous September 2024.Choice course ofPlease clearly establish which PhD mission you’re making use of for (PhD1 or PhD2).It’s best to provide a private assertion of at the very least 300 phrases giving your causes for making use of and another info you need to embrace in assist of your utility. Among the many points it’s possible you’ll want to cowl are how your earlier schooling and expertise pertains to the course, and the way the course matches into your long-term educational or profession plans.You also needs to provide an overview analysis proposal of about 1000 phrases, evidencing your information of the subject of the mission (PhD1 or PhD2) and exhibiting how you’ll strategy the mission inside your PhD thesis. Your proposal ought to use the next construction:– The title of your proposed thesis (use the title for PhD1 for PhD2)– The principle goals of your analysis– Analysis query(s)– How your analysis will relate to present considering on the topic– The strategies of analysis and a plan and timetable of labor– The sources you’ll requireThe College of Sheffield gives some steering on writing analysis proposals right here:The College of Sheffield, the Digital Humanities Institute, and the CASCADE community are dedicated to creating an setting through which all abilities can develop to their most potential, no matter gender, race, sexual orientation, age, cultural origin, nationality or incapacity. We imagine within the energy of range to assist us deal with massive international challenges and purpose to actively construct numerous groups. We all know that when individuals come along with totally different views, approaches and insights it results in richer, extra inventive and modern instructing and analysis, higher understanding of scholar wants and aspirations and the best degree of scholar expertise. We significantly welcome functions from at present under-represented teams in our College, together with candidates who’re from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. All appointments will probably be primarily based on benefit.Further feedbackDigital Humanities InstituteThe Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) is the UK’s main centre for Digital Humanities, offering expertise analysis, computational analysis and on-line publishing for over 100 humanities analysis tasks and greater than 120 universities and organisations within the UK and internationally. The DHI’s workforce of analysis software program engineers work with lecturers and non- lecturers on collaborative, multi-stakeholder tasks through which the principal deliverables are on-line sources or software program and which the DHI will then preserve and maintain publicly accessible over the long run. Established within the early Nineties, the DHI’s workforce of digital humanities lecturers now builds on its popularity and experience by delivering profitable Masters programmes to a big cohort of dwelling and worldwide college students along with its Postgraduate Analysis (PGR) programme. See and .Web site for added job particularsWork Location(s)Variety of provides out there 1 Firm/Institute The College of Sheffield Nation United Kingdom Metropolis Sheffield Postal Code s102tn GeofieldThe place to use Web siteContact State/ProvinceSouth Yorkshire MetropolisSheffield Web siteAvenueWestern Financial institution Postal CodeS10 2TN E-Mailhannah.russell@sheffield.ac.ukSTATUS: EXPIRED

Anticipated wage

£47573 per 12 months

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Sheffield

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Solar, 03 Mar 2024 08:51:20 GMT

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