Jobs

At the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven, there is a full-time vacancy of lecturer (100%) within the academic staff in a tenure track (5 years). We want to hire an internationally oriented linguist with expertise in applied linguistics and French, an excellent research record and teaching experience in applied linguistics. KU Leuven’s Department of Linguistics is a highly internationally oriented centre for research and training in linguistics. The research unit is committed to research on a wide range of languages, with a focus on different research methods, theoretical frameworks and phenomena. Candidates have a profile that complements existing expertise within the Department of Linguistics and bridges with other departments and centres within and outside the Faculty of Arts.

Duties

Research

• You carry out research in the field of applied linguistics, in at least one of the following domains, with a focus on French: multilingualism, written language skills or text analysis.

• You use state-of-the-art quantitative and/or qualitative techniques for applied linguistic research in your research.

• You take initiatives to acquire competitive funding and actively participate in the development of future (interdisciplinary) research projects.

• Besides a strong applied linguistic profile, you develop cross-disciplinary research lines and collaborations with scientific fields in which the analysis of multilingualism and multilingual communication also play a central role, such as translation and interpretation science, psycholinguistics, communication science or Digital Humanities.

• You will join the research group in the Department of Linguistics with which your research shows the strongest affinity. At the same time, you support and develop initiatives that build the bridge between your own research and the other scientific domains mentioned above, within and outside the Faculty of Arts (e.g. through active membership in the Centre for Applied Language Research, the Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence or initiatives relating to Digital Humanities).

Education

You will provide a teaching assignment in the Bachelor’s in Applied Linguistics (“Bachelor Toegepaste taalkunde”, KU Leuven – Antwerp Campus) and in the Master’s in Multilingual Communication (“Master Meertalige communicatie”, KU Leuven – Antwerp Campus), and possibly one course in the Master’s in Multilingual Communication in Brussels, with a clear commitment to the quality of the programmes as a whole, and in line with KU Leuven’s educational vision. Your teaching assignment will initially mainly be linked to the Antwerp Campus, but you are willing to provide future teaching assignments on other campuses of the faculty, and in teaching programmes related to the above-mentioned programmes, where deemed convenient.

The following course units are indicatively part of the teaching assignment of the sought candidate:

Master Multilingual Communication

• Cases in multilingual communication: French (taught in French; 6 ECTS)

• Digital text design: French (taught in French; 3 ECTS)

• Multimodal text design: French (taught in French; 3 ECTS)

• Research methodology (taught in Dutch, 4.5 out of 9 ECTS)

OR Advanced research methods (taught in English, 4.5 out of 9 ECTS) on Campus Brussels)

Bachelor Applied Linguistics

• French language proficiency 2 (probably from 2024-2025) (taught in French; 2 out of 10 ECTS, i.c.w. a teaching assistant)

• French text analysis and production (probably from 2025-2026) (taught in French; 4 ECTS)

You will also further contribute to the Faculty’s pedagogical project by supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses in the above-mentioned courses and participating in initiatives for the training of young researchers in your area of expertise (e.g. as part of the compulsory doctoral training).

You develop your teaching approach, taking advantage of the opportunities for educational professionalisation offered by the faculty and the university.

Service

• Within the institution, you have an active presence on the Antwerp Campus of the Faculty of Arts.

• You contribute to the further development of the multilingualism and multilingual communication component at the KU Leuven Campus Antwerp, in interaction with the wider region. You represent us in the region and act as a contact person between the university and local bodies where appropriate.

• You are willing to provide academic, social and internal service. You actively work on forms of regional and international cooperation with actors in your field to strengthen the links between the programmes and the field. You participate in information and recruitment events and extra-muros activities.

• In time, you will also take up management tasks on campus and in the Faculty.

Profile

• You have a PhD in (applied) linguistics (or equivalent relevant degree) with a specialisation in French and with a specific focus on multilingualism, written language skills or text analysis.

• Your profile as a researcher with expertise in quantitative and/or qualitative linguistic analysis techniques complements the existing research focus of the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts.

• You possess excellent didactic qualities for academic teaching and can present an excellent research dossier. Research quality is reflected in several high-level international publications.

• You have organisational skills and a collaborative attitude.

The teaching curriculum for this position also consists of Dutch-language course units. The administrative language of KU Leuven is Dutch. If you have no or insufficient Dutch at the time of recruitment, KU Leuven provides a training offer that should allow you to participate in board meetings. Before teaching in Dutch, you will be given the opportunity to acquire the knowledge of Dutch required for this purpose.

Offer

We offer full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment. You will be appointed as a tenure-track lecturer for a period of 5 years; thereafter, upon positive evaluation, you will be appointed as a senior lecturer. To facilitate scientific integration and research in the first period, start-up funding of 110,000 euro is offered to new professors who do not have substantial other funding.

KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university conducting both fundamental and applied scientific research. It has a strong inter- and multidisciplinary focus and strives for international excellence. To this end, it actively cooperates with its research partners at home and abroad. It offers its students an academic education based on high-level scientific research.

KU Leuven is well equipped to welcome foreign professors and their families and provides practical support in the areas of immigration and administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching, etc.

KU Leuven aims to create an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. If you have any questions regarding accessibility or support opportunities, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

Interested?

More information can be obtained from prof. dr. Elke Peters, campus dean of the Antwerp Campus of KU Leuven (Faculty of Arts), elke.peters@kuleuven.be; from prof. dr. Karen Lahousse, coordinator of the Department of Linguistics (Faculty of Arts), karen.lahousse@kuleuven.be and from the dean of the Faculty, prof. dr. Liesbet Heyvaert, liesbet.heyvaert@kuleuven.be.

For problems with online applying, please contact solliciteren@kuleuven.be.

Please enclose with your application a detailed research proposal for a period of 3 years (maximum two pages) and a vision statement on teaching (maximum two pages) in Dutch or in English.

You can apply for this job no later than February 13, 2023 via the  online application tool 

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

On behalf of the Ghent Centre of Digital Humanities and LT³ – Language and Translation Technology Team at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University we are delighted to accept applications for a fully funded 4 year PhD project in the field of digital humanities methods with a focus on research of a NLP toolchain in literary research with enhanced multilingual workflows as part of the Horizon 2020 INFRA Research project – Computational Literary Studies.

Specifically, the candidate will address the development of digital humanities methods in the following ways:
– Research the development of a NLP toolchain in literary research with enhanced multilingual workflows;
– Develop with a team of researchers a suite of workflows and prototypes to facilitate common research tasks within literary studies using NLP enrichments; this includes: named entity recognition, relational extraction, and sentiment analysis;
– Work to optimise the availability of fundamental NLP tools within a workflow for historical literary texts using case studies from KBR (the Royal Library of Belgium) multilingual serial publication collection.

For more information and how to apply, please visit the application link provided below.

Web Address for Applications: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/doctoral-fellow-13

Contact Information:
Assistant Professor Julie M Birkholz
julie.birkholz@ugent.be

In the framework of an interdisciplinary project on productivity in grammar (constructions), we are currently hiring one full-time postdoc bursary (International Mobility) for one year.

Degree requirements:
PhD in (corpus) Linguistics

The candidates are expected to have a solid background in quantitative corpus linguistics, and more specifically in distributional (vector space) semantics. Excellent skills in R (and preferably also in Python) are required.

We are looking for independent researchers with management / coordination skills, who are able to share their knowledge with PhD students within a large interdisciplinary consortium.

Candidates should have an excellent knowledge of English.

Ghent University offers a one-year full-time contract starting on 1 March 2021. Successful candidates will be employed as research staff member under the regime of international mobility (with regular health insurance, etc.). Information for incoming international staff can be found at https://www.ugent.be/en/work/talent/next-steps.

Contact one of the project supervisors for more information. More information about the project and its supervisors can be found at www.languageproductivity.ugent.be

Supervisors:
Peter Lauwers (PI), Jóhanna Barðdal, Timothy Colleman, Renata Enghels, Rob Hartsuiker, Miriam Taverniers.
Co-supervisors: Ludovic De Cuypere, Alice Foucart, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen.

The deadline for applications is 7 February 2021.

Applications should be submitted to the application email provided below and should consist of:

• A detailed CV, including degree grades and title of Master Thesis and PhD Thesis, and
• A letter of motivation in English, which should also mention specific skills in quantitative corpus linguistics

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed shortly after the 14th of February.

Application Deadline: 07-Feb-2021

Email Address for Applications: languageproductivity@ugent.be
Contact Information:
Prof Peter Lauwers
Email: peter.lauwers@ugent.be

The candidate is a native Portuguese speaker from Brazil with a training in linguistics and phonetics. He/she will be part of a team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys Text-To-Speech technologies supporting a range of products and services in a large portfolio of languages. With other members of the team, he/she will participate in the development of a new Brazilian Portuguese voice that will help a large number of people around the world.

Job description

• Assist computer scientists in the development of a new Brazilian Portuguese voice

• Assist computer scientists in the validation of the current Brazilian Portuguese Text-to-Speech system

• Checking audio recordings versus text script (word mistakes, erroneous pronunciations…)

• Validate phonetic lexicons

• Phonetic validation of audio recordings

• Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker

• Fluent in English or French to communicate with the team

• Curiosity about phonetics and languages

• Working knowledge of Windows or Linux

• Team player with good interpersonal skills

Duration

9 months

Location

In Mons (Belgium), possibility to work partly from home

Type of contract

Fixed-term contract as an employee of Acapela (or consultancy if preferred)

Start date

 As soon as possible

Contact

Vincent Pagel 

Acapela Group R&D and Linguistic Resources Manager 

linguistic@acapela-group.com

Address: blvd Dolez, 33 B7000 MONS

About Acapela Group

Acapela Group brings together talented people from very different backgrounds and areas of expertise, resulting in a rich cultural and multilingual environment. We work on voices and languages, we look at the whole world and all application fields to help us create authentic and genuine voices that change or simplify people’s daily lives.

www.acapela-group.com

The candidate is a native Portuguese speaker with a training in linguistics and phonetics. He/she will be part of a team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys Text-To-Speech technologies supporting a range of products and services in a large portfolio of languages. With other members of the team, he/she will participate in the development of a new Portuguese voice that will help a large number of people around the world.

Job description

• Assist computer scientists in the development of a new Portuguese voice

• Assist computer scientists in the validation of the current Portuguese Text-to-Speech system

• Checking audio recordings versus text script (word mistakes, erroneous pronunciations…)

• Validate phonetic lexicons

• Phonetic validation of audio recordings

• Native Portuguese speaker

• Fluent in English or French to communicate with the team

• Curiosity about phonetics and languages

• Working knowledge of Windows or Linux

• Team player with good interpersonal skills

Duration

9 months

Location

In Mons (Belgium), possibility to work partly from home

Type of contract

Fixed-term contract as an employee of Acapela (or consultancy if preferred)

Start date

 As soon as possible

Contact

Vincent Pagel 

Acapela Group R&D and Linguistic Resources Manager 

linguistic@acapela-group.com

Address: blvd Dolez, 33 B7000 MONS

About Acapela Group

Acapela Group brings together talented people from very different backgrounds and areas of expertise, resulting in a rich cultural and multilingual environment. We work on voices and languages, we look at the whole world and all application fields to help us create authentic and genuine voices that change or simplify people’s daily lives.

www.acapela-group.com

In the context of a research infrastructure project, a scholarship is offered for a PhD student in the LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team at the Ghent University. The successful applicant will participate in a multidisciplinary research collaboration between UGent (ΔiaLing-LT3) and UHasselt (Expertise Centre for Digital Media). The PhD research topic is part of a Hercules project (see description below) and focuses on the extension of Natural Language Processing tools for application in the domain of Spanish
dialectology.

The successful candidate is appointed for two years. Further funding will be sought for the remainder of the PhD project. The starting date is as soon as possible.

Description of the project:
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely unexplored, despite the recent surge in interest in dialect grammars. This is due to the lack of large annotated dialectal corpora. This project aims to fill this lacuna and will create the first morphosyntactically annotated and parsed corpus of the European Spanish dialects. This dialect corpus will be designed in a geographically balanced way and its material will proceed from the COSER corpus (Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural ‘Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish’; www.corpusrural.es), the largest collection of oral data in the Spanish-speaking world. As transcribing and annotating are expensive and labour-intensive, this project takes a collaborative game-based approach to building the parsed corpus of European Spanish dialects. In other words, a crowdsourced game will be built through which members of the public contribute to the co-creation of the parsed corpus by providing annotations in the
context of a game.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Hispanic Linguistics)
• Strong interest in language and speech technology
• Interested in research and having the intention to obtain a PhD degree
• Fluent /(near) native in Spanish and English
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Eager to acquire new competences and knowledge
• Preferably knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Java)
• The candidate should be able to work independently as well as in a
  multidisciplinary team, and will be guided by advisors with a computer science/computational linguistics background (UGent-UHasselt) and with a background in dialectology (UGent).

How to apply:
The application in English should include:

• A motivation letter, summarizing the candidate’s background and
  capabilities, and describing his/her motivation for this position
• Attested copies of education certificates, and a list of master courses with
  the grades obtained
• An extensive CV
• Contact information (e-mail) of potential referees

Applications are to be sent by e-mail to Prof. Dr Veronique Hoste (Veronique.Hoste@UGent.be) and Prof. Dr Miriam Bouzouita (Miriam.Bouzouita@UGent.be).

Application deadline:
August 15th, 2019. Those who have applied previously do not need to resubmit their application.

Contact for more information:
Miriam.Bouzouita@UGent.be

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    →   Vakgroep LW22 – Vertalen, tolken en communicatie
    →   AAP tijdelijke aanstelling – 100%
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OVER DE UGENT

De Universiteit Gent is een wereld op zich. Meer dan 8.000 personeelsleden zijn er dagelijks aan de slag in onderwijs en onderzoek, beheer en administratie, technische en sociale voorzieningen, enz. Voor hen is de Universiteit Gent een logische keuze: het is een van de grootste, meest boeiende en toekomstgerichte werkgevers van de regio. De Universiteit Gent telt 11 faculteiten en meer dan 100 vakgroepen, die in elk van de wetenschappelijke disciplines hoogstaande en door onderzoek ondersteunde opleidingen aanbieden.

UW OPDRACHT

• U besteedt minimum 70% van uw opdracht aan hoogstaand en productief wetenschappelijk onderzoek op het vlak van de vertaal- of tolkwetenschap, meertalige communicatie, (ver)taalverwerving, terminologie of taaltechnologie (onderzoeksgroep EQTIS, TRACE, MULTIPLES of LT3).
• U werkt mee aan het onderwijs op bachelor-, master- of postgraduaatsniveau in de afdeling Engels.
• U verleent ondersteuning bij het uitschrijven van onderzoeksprojecten en het coachen van PhD studenten binnen de onderzoeksgroep.
• U begeleidt bachelor- en masterscripties.

UW PROFIEL

• U bent houder van een diploma van doctor op proefschrift op het gebied van de vertaal- of tolkwetenschap, meertalige communicatie, (ver)taalverwerving, taaltechnologie, taal- en letterkunde of van een gelijkwaardig erkend diploma met Engels. Aan de diplomavereisten moet voldaan zijn op de datum van aanstelling.
• U hebt reeds hoogstaand wetenschappelijk onderzoek verricht binnen het domein van de vertaal- of tolkwetenschap, meertalige communicatie of de taaltechnologie, gestaafd door recente publicaties in internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschriften die een beroep doen op deskundigen voor de beoordeling van de ingezonden manuscripten.
• U beheerst het Engels op het niveau C2 van het ERK (Europees Referentiekader) of als moedertaalspreker.
• Ervaring in het academische onderwijs in een of meer van bovenstaande gebieden strekt tot aanbeveling.
• U hebt een uitgesproken interesse voor studentenbegeleiding in de academische en/of voortgezette academische opleiding.

ONS AANBOD

• Wij bieden u een aanstelling voor een termijn van drie jaar. De aanstelling kan enkel in uitzonderlijke omstandigheden éénmalig worden hernieuwd voor een termijn van maximum drie jaar. Opgelet: Indien u reeds eerder werd aangesteld als doctor-assistent aan een universiteit in de Vlaamse Gemeenschap kan u niet kandideren.
• De datum van indiensttreding wordt voorzien ten vroegste op 1 september 2019.
• De verloning gebeurt volgens barema AAP5. Meer informatie over onze salarisschalen.
• Verder kan elk UGent-personeelslid rekenen op een aantal voordelen, zoals een breed opleidings- en vormingsaanbod, 38 dagen vakantieverlof, een fietsvergoeding, ecocheques enz. Een volledig overzicht van onze personeelsvoordelen.

INTERESSE?

Solliciteren kan alleen online via e-recruitment tot de uiterste inschrijvingsdatum (zie bovenaan). We aanvaarden geen laattijdige sollicitaties of sollicitaties die niet via de online toepassing worden bezorgd.

Volgende documenten dient u toe te voegen aan uw sollicitatie:

• In het veld ‘Cv’: uw cv en een overzicht van relevante wetenschappelijke publicaties (samengevoegd als één pdf-bestand)
• In het veld ‘Motivatiebrief’: uw motivatiebrief in pdf-formaat
• In het veld ‘Diploma’: een kopie van het vereiste diploma (indien reeds in uw bezit)
• In het veld ‘Gelijkwaardigheidsattest’: enkel indien u uw diploma buiten de Europese Unie behaalde moet u een gelijkwaardigheidsattest van NARIC toevoegen. Dit kan u aanvragen via www.naricvlaanderen.be.
• een tekst (max. 1500 woorden) waarin u wu visie met betrekking tot de functie uiteenzet, inclusief een concreet  onderzoeks- en publicatieplan.

Let op: elk veld heeft een beperking van maximum 10 MB.

De UGent voert een gelijkekansen- en diversiteitsbeleid en moedigt dan ook iedereen aan om te solliciteren.

MEER INFORMATIE

Voor meer informatie in verband met deze vacature kan je contact opnemen met Prof. Sonia Vandepitte (sonia.vandepitte@ugent.be)

Het Instituut voor Levende Talen (ILT) verzorgt taalcolleges voor verschillende talen in de faculteiten van de KU Leuven en biedt ook cursussen en diensten op maat aan voor diverse doelgroepen (masterstudenten, jonge onderzoekers, administratief en technisch personeel, …).

Functie

U werkt in een team van taaldocenten en staat mee in voor de volgende taken:

• Doceren en evalueren van taalcolleges Business English in de faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen.
• Verzorgen van feedbacksessies Academic Writing bij de Faculteit Wetenschappen.
• Coachen van studenten binnen het ILT Writing Centre.
• Vertalen en reviseren van academische en administratieve teksten binnen de ILT Taalservice.
• Ontwikkelen van didactisch materiaal.
• Ondersteunen van lopende projecten.

Profiel

• Masterdiploma Taal- en Letterkunde met Engels als één van de hoofdtalen.
• Diploma Specifieke Lerarenopleiding en/of aantoonbare ervaring.
• Uitstekende beheersing van schriftelijk en gesproken Engels (moedertaal of near-native). Gelieve CV en motivatiebrief in het Engels op te stellen.
• Vertrouwdheid met academisch Engels.
• Interesse in de analyse van vakspecifieke woordenschat en relevante gesproken of geschreven genres/vaardigheden in een bepaald vakdomein.
• Beheersing van het Nederlands minstens op niveau C1; in staat zijn om vanuit het Nederlands naar het Engels te vertalen.
• Junior profiel.
• Enige onderwijservaring en/of ervaring met het ontwikkelen van lesmateriaal is een troef.

Aanbod

Wij bieden een contract van één jaar aan (70%, eventueel uitbreidbaar), dat tot maximaal vijf jaar kan worden verlengd. De indiensttreding is voorzien op 01/10/2019.

Interesse?

Meer informatie is te verkrijgen bij prof. dr. Serge Verlinde, tel.: +32 16 32 56 73, mail: serge.verlinde@kuleuven.be of mevrouw Kristin Blanpain, tel.: +32 16 37 67 21, mail: kristin.blanpain@kuleuven.be.

Solliciteren voor deze vacature kan tot en met 29/05/2019 via onze online sollicitatietoepassing

A PhD position is offered as part of the FWO-funded project “Population developments co-determine diffusional language change: a close-up view on West-Germanic languages”, under the supervision of Prof. Freek Van de Velde and Prof. Hubert Cuyckens (co-supervisor). The project is to be carried out within the research group ‘Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics’ (QLVL), which is part of the Department of Linguistics. QLVL has a strong tradition in language variation and change. The group focuses on advanced quantitative methods for studying lexical and constructional variation.

Website unit

 

Project

This project investigates the relation between urban population developments and morphological changes in three major West-Germanic languages, English, Dutch, German, from the beginning of Early Modernity to the end of Classical Modernity (1500-1900). The main hypothesis is that morphological simplification accelerates when urban populations grow. Put more succinctly: word structure becomes simpler when cities grow. The reason is that the growth in this period is brought about mainly by immigration involving speakers from different dialects and different languages, resulting in what linguists call ‘koineisation’ (dialect leveling) with a decrease in morphological complexity. We take a decidedly quantitative approach, relying on linguistic databases (text corpora) as well as on demographic databases.

Profile

An eligible candidate should

• have successfully completed a Master’s Degree in Linguistics, a Master’s Degree in Language & Literature, a Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities (or equivalent). Students finishing their MA degree in the summer of 2019 are also encouraged to apply.
• have an interest in and demonstrable background knowledge on the history of the Germanic languages (minimally English and German)
• have an interest in quantitative approaches to linguistics
• have hands-on experience with coding in R and/or Python.
• be proficient in English, including mastery of academic writing
• be willing and able to deepen their knowledge of theories of language change and language variation.

Familiarity with historical corpora of Early New High German is a plus.

Offer

A full-time PhD position is offered for 1 year (starting in October 2019), with the perspective of prolongation with another 3 years. The successful candidate will become part of a small team of researchers investigating language variation and language change. S/he will author international scientific publications. S/he will be able to develop a variety of skills, including programming, statistics, knowledge of earlier stages of English, German, and Dutch, but also writing and presentation skills as well as organizational skills. S/he will be able to attend international meetings and to meet and collaborate with enthusiastic fellow linguists. Teaching load is limited to up to 10% of the time. The starting net monthly salary is about 2000 euros.

Interested?

For more information and/or a detailed description of the project, please contact Prof. dr. Freek Van de Velde <freek.vandevelde@kuleuven.be>. Applicants should include a CV, a letter of motivation and one piece of academic writing demonstrating their skill as a linguist and researcher.

You can apply for this job no later than July 07, 2019 via the online application tool on the website: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55117570?hl=en&lang=en

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

The Institute for Language and Communication (https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc) has an opening for a research assistant (part-time 50%) in Natural Language Processing for a max. period of three years, starting 1 October 2019.

The position is part of a large multidisciplinary project that aims to investigate socio-cognitive conflicts in online educational platforms: “MOOCresearch2.0: A mixed-method and multidisciplinary approach to socio-cognitive conflicts in online educational platforms” (Prof. M. Frenay, Prof. F. Lambotte, Dr. Magali Paquot & Prof. V. Swaen) (see https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/moocresearch2-0.html for more info). As such, the research assistant will be working with researchers from the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl), the Social Media Lab (https://www.socialmedialab.be/), the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socialisation, Education and Training (GIRSEF, https://uclouvain.be/fr/chercher/girsef), the Center on Consumer Relations and Responsible Marketing (CERMA, https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/lourim/cerma) and the Centre for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL, https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental).

Job description

• The research assistant will provide support to the project team by performing a variety of tasks such as:
• Data pre-processing: anonymization, normalization
• Data structuring: linking up different data types (forum posts, user profiles, learners’ questionnaires, logs, etc.)
• Data enrichment: part-of-speech tagging, language recognition, topic detection, etc.
• Data analysis and visualization
• The research assistant will also work in close collaboration with the CENTAL to provide access to the compiled corpus via a user-friendly online concordancer. Another important task of the research assistant will be to implement sustainable solutions for the automated treatment of incoming data.

Requirements and profile:

• Master degree in Natural Language Processing
• excellent record of MA level study;
• programming skills in Python or Perl
• experience with NLP for social media is an asset
• knowledge of statistics and statistical software is an asset
• very good command of French and English
• excellent and demonstrated analytic skills
• excellent and demonstrated self-management skills
• ability and willingness to work in a team

Terms of employment:

• The contract will initially be for one year, two times renewable, with a total of max. three years.
• The monthly gross salary is min. 3317 EUR.
• The position requires residence in Belgium, preferably in or near Louvain-la-Neuve
• Applicants from outside the EU are responsible for obtaining the necessary visa or permits, with the assistance of UCLouvain staff department.

Application Deadline: 31 May 2019

Please include in your application:

• a cover letter in French, in which you specify why you are interested in this position and how you meet the job requirements outlined above;
• a curriculum vitae in French or English;
• an outline of previous work or research experience in English
• a copy of your BA and MA degrees;
• a copy of your master thesis and academic publications (if applicable);
• the names and full contact details of two academic referees.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview (in situ or via video conferencing) on 24 or 26 June 2019. Please save the dates!

Enquiries and applications should be addressed by email to Dr. Magali Paquot (Magali.paquot@uclouvain.be)