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Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoc fellowship in Indigenous Language Documentation
and Technology
From: Antti Arppe <ar...@ualberta.ca>
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Dear colleagues,
We'd appreciate if you shared the posting below on our postdoc position
through your networks. Also, if you know of recent or forthcoming PhD's who'd
be interested in the creation of language technological resources and in
Indigenous languages, we'd be most happy if they applied.
-Antti Arppe
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OPEN POSITION: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION
AND TECHNOLOGY
WEBPAGE:
https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c/2020/03/14/postdoc-language-documentation-2020/
DESCRIPTION
The university-community Partnership “21st Century Tools for Indigenous
Languages” invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Indigenous Language Documentation and Technology, beginning in summer/fall
2020, in this research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. The start date is negotiable, and the
appointment is tenable for 2 years, subject to review after the 1st year.
This 7-year Partnership is led by the Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab)
in the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, and it has as partner
organizations 13 institutions and Indigenous language communities and 31
individual researchers and educators in Canada, the United States, and Norway.
Further details of our Partnership and the host organization can be found at:
https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c/ and http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca
Members of our Partnership have been developing computational models of the
phonetics, morphology, lexis, and syntax of Indigenous languages in Canada and
North America, starting with the Algonquian and the Dene language families, to
create software applications that support their continued use in daily life by
both speakers and learners. These include intelligent electronic dictionaries,
spell-checkers, linguistically analyzed text collections, computer-aided
language learning tools, as well as text-to-speech synthesizers and optical
character recognition. The languages we have gotten the furthest with are
Plains Cree (Algonquian) and Tsuut’ina (Dene), see:
https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/tools-applications/ and
https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/publications/ .
DUTIES
The tasks of the Postdoc will include the following, allowing for variation
based on the successful applicant’s competences and interests:
1. participation in/responsibility for the continued development of our
existing computational morphological and phonetic models and end-user
applications for the Algonquian and/or Dene and/or other Indigenous languages
we are already working on;
2. participation in/responsibility for the development of new computational
morphological and phonetic models and applications for Indigenous languages
other than the ones we are working on, preferably spoken in Canada;
3. partial training and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students
(M.A/Ph.D level) in developing models, applications and resources for
Indigenous languages;
4. engagement with Indigenous community consultants on collecting primary
linguistic data and gathering feedback from community members;
5. other administrative responsibilities.
The fellowship comes with an annual salary (in CAD) in line with SSHRC
policies
(https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/fellowships/postdoctoral-postdoctorale-eng.aspx),
and benefits.
The postdoc is expected to work with and support the activities of multiple
Partners in the Partnership, and may be co-located or based at other Partners
for part of their tenure (https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c/people/). To
this end, the Partnership has allocated dedicated funding for work and travel
at multiple locations.
By the end of the Postdoc appointment, the successful applicant will have a
set of skills allowing them to partner with Indigenous communities and field
linguists to develop a range of sophisticated tools in support of language
maintenance and revitalization.
QUALIFICATIONS
1. The applicants should have recently completed, or be about to finish, a
Ph.D degree in linguistics or an associated relevant discipline.
2. Successful applicants may have specialized either in:
a) the documentation and study of Indigenous American languages, with an
interest to learn computational modelling, or
b) the computational modelling (text and/or speech) of morphologically rich
languages, with an interest to learn the essential morphological and phonetic
characteristics of the languages we are working with.
HOW TO APPLY
The application should include
a. A research statement (ca. 2 pages) outlining past experience and current
research interests and, in particular, how these align with and contribute
towards the goals of our Partnership project;
b. A Curriculum Vitae (with a List of Publications); and
c. 1-3 relevant academic writing samples.
d. Letters of Recommendation should be sent directly to Project Director, Dr.
Antti Arppe (ar...@ualberta.ca) by 3 referees.
Applicants should contact Dr. Arppe in advance to discuss their research plan.
Applications and any inquiries should be sent by electronic mail to Dr. Arppe.
Review of applications will begin by April 30, 2020, and will continue until
the position is filled.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 30-April-2020 (Open until filled)
EMAIL ADDRESS FOR APPLICATIONS: ar...@ualberta.ca
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For the latest up-to-date information, please consult:
https://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c/2020/03/14/postdoc-language-documentation-2020/
Further queries: Dr. Antti Arppe (ar...@ualberta.ca)
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