Connectionists: Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning/Computational Linguistics for the Study of Child Language Acquisition

[Franklin Chang]

Hi,

We are recruiting for post-doctoral fellow to work on the application of
machine learning/computational linguistic techniques to child language
acquisition.

You should have a PhD in Computer
Science/Engineering/Linguistics/Psychology and have experience with machine
learning algorithms applied to language data and have published your work
in conference proceedings or journals. Experience with auditory speech
processing, connectionist/deep learning, cloud computing, and GPU
programming is desirable. The post is available for 2 years.

The computational community has developed a wealth of algorithms that can
automatically discover linguistic units and dependencies between these
units and these algorithms have been applied to language parsing and
generation.  In contrast, child language researchers often study child
language using human coding of detailed linguistic information. The goal of
this project is to develop a bridge between these two approaches. Machine
learning techniques would give child language researchers ways to pull out
relevant utterances that could be subject to greater processing. Child
language analyses could be compiled into test sets that could be used to
evaluate machine learning algorithms. In this post, you will develop
machine learning algorithms for child language and also develop a web site
that will enhance the ability of machine learning researchers and child
language researcher to share data and algorithms. The research topics and
approaches are open to negotiation. Children have some of the most advance
language learning algorithms and understanding how they learn language
could lead to new insights for computational approaches to language.

This post offers the opportunity to join a thriving research group at the
University of Liverpool and become a member of the new ESRC International
Centre for Language and Communicative Development, a multi-million pound
collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and
Lancaster.

More information is available here:
https://sites.google.com/site/sentenceproductionmodel/news

   - Employer: University of Liverpool
   - Title: Post-doctoral fellow
   - Topics: machine learning, computational linguistics, corpus
   linguistics, algorithm development, deep learning, speech processing
   - Deadline: 28th August 2015
   - Date Posted: 2nd June 2015
   - Apply:
   http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-588063/


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