Postdoc in Sociolinguistics at the University of Iceland

The Language and Technology lab at the University of Iceland, led by associate professor Dr. Anton Karl Ingason, is seeking to hire a full time post-doctoral researcher in sociolinguistics. The position is initially for 12 months and can be extended by 12 additional months. The position is a part of the project Explaining Individual Lifespan Change (EILisCh); this is a five-year research project which is backed by the European Research Council (ERC). The goal of this project is to explain Individual Lifespan Change in linguistic behavior, drawing on recent advances in sociolinguistics, quantitative syntactic theory, clinical linguistics, as well as resources recently made available by Language Technology.

This group works at the intersection of Language and Technology. In addition to their work on Lifespan Change, they focus on automated assistance for language use (such as proofreading), corpora (especially treebanks), analysis of Cognitive Decline, and parsing, Language Technology infrastructure, and the interfaces between language, society, and technology. They say they emphasize work that is related to the Icelandic language but the methods they use are in general language-independent.

Main tasks

The person that will be hired will be using Natural Language Processing tools to extract information about variables from transcribed speech and they will develop models that account for sociolinguistic trajectories in the data.

Skills/Qualifications

• PhD degree in a discipline related to Sociolinguistics and quantitative data analysis or an expected PhD award date (with evidence) before the start date of the position.
• Python and R.
• Ability to analyze quantitative findings using modern statistical methods
• Effective collaboration skills and experience with working in a group.
• Good written and spoken English language skills.
• Ability to actively participate in preparing grant proposals.

Organisation

Location

Iceland

Research field

Deadline

15 Feb 2024

More information

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