The research centre CRC 1646 "Linguistic Creativity in Communication" has the following job opening: 
Research Position
ID: Wiss24606
- starting: as soon as possible
- fulltime
- salary according to Remuneration level E 13 TV-L
- fixed-term
In this interdisciplinary project on „Contextualised metrics of linguistic creativity in literary and non-literary text“ (A05), situated between linguistics and literary studies, we will investigate how linguistic creativity can be identified and measured across literary and non-literary genres with corpus-based and mixed methods. We ask how the originality and success of linguistic signs vary depending on textual cues and are mediated by a spectrum of popular and artistic genre contexts such as travel blogs, popular fiction and literary novels. Focusing on the thematic domain of spatial descriptions across genres (e.g. „the squares devour a huge amount of drinking water to stay green“; „wood was chopped down in the mountain forests, and lay there clean, dead and fragrant“) we aim to develop data-driven metrics and models that automatically identify creative signs at sentence, paragraph and text level. The dissertation topic will focus on developing sentence embedding models that disentangle style and content, based on language models for different literary and non-literary genres.
Contribution to academic self-administration (5 %)
The possibility of a PhD is given. Employment is conductive to scientific qualification.
Your Tasks
Research tasks (95 %):
- research within the CRC and the A05 project on computational approaches to measuring and modeling linguistic creativity (e.g., evaluating, finetuning and extending language models and embeddings models)
- publication and presentation of research results at national and international workshops and conferences
- collaboration within the CRC and active participation in the qualification programme of the CRC’s research training group (RTG)
Contribution to academic self-administration (5 %)
The possibility of a PhD is given. Employment is conductive to scientific qualification.
We offer
- salary according to Remuneration level E 13 TV-L
- fixed-term limited until 31.12.2027 (§ 2 (1) sentence 1 of the WissZeitVG; in accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may differ in individual cases)
- fulltime
- internal and external training opportunities
- variety of health, consulting and prevention services
- reconcilability of family and work
- flexible working hours
- good transport connection
- supplementary company pension
- collegial working environment
- open and pleasant working atmosphere
- exciting, varied tasks
Your Profile
We expect
- completed scientific university degree (e. g. master degree (or equivalent) in a relevant area (e. g., computational linguistics, digital humanities, linguistics, computer science)); we also welcome applicants who have not yet completed their academic degree by the application deadline, but who are expected to have it by the start of the position
- very good programming skills (e. g. Python)
- knowledge of machine learning (e. g. neural networks and language models)
- knowledge of linguistics
- interest in doing a PhD
- very good English skills (written and oral)
- very good communication and presentation skills
- strong organizational and coordination skills as well as ability to work collaboratively and as part of a team
- independent, self-reliant and dedicated style of work
Preferred experience and skills
- practical experience with state-of-the-art methods in Computational Linguistics
- strong interest in digital humanities and interdisciplinary project work
- interest in learning German and/or working with non-English data (including German data)
Application Procedure
We are looking forward to receiving your application. To apply, please preferably use our online form via the application button below.
application deadline: 10.12.2024
Contact
Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
+49 521 106-2534
sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de
Postal Address
Universität Bielefeld
SFB 1646
Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
+49 521 106-2534
sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de
Postal Address
Universität Bielefeld
SFB 1646
Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
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