PhD Opportunity in Brittany
A position is currently available to undertake a PhD in corpus linguistics and NLP at the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France.
Collocational Resonance and Semantic Relationships in Corpora. This thesis will look at semantic relationships discovered from the analysis of ollocational patterning. The aim is to analyse collocational relationships in arge corpora in both French and English to study meaning transfer using the otion of collocational resonance. Related theoretical frameworks will include Lexical Functions, FrameNet et Corpus Pattern Analysis. The study is situated between a contextual corpus linguistic approach and natural language processing, notable in the area of question-answer systems and ontologies. The thesis is part of the RESON Project, a collaborative project between the LiCoRN research team in the Humanities Faculty specialised in corpus linguistics and researchers in NLP from the VALORIA team of the University of South Brittany. The thesis will be co-supervised by Geoffrey Williams, HCTI-LiCoRN and Jeanne Villaneau, VALORIA,
Information about LiCoRN can be found at: http://web,univ-ubs,fr/corpus and
VALORIA at http://http://www-valoria.univ-ubs.fr/
Application: Candidates must apply to Pr. Geoffrey Williams Jeoffrey,williams@univ-ubs,fr before May, 30th. Knowledge of Corpus Lnguistics and NLP as well as fluency in French are essential.
The University of South Brittany is a small, but very dynamic university located in the Morbihan department in Brittany. It is centred around two towns, Vannes and Lorient. Lorient is situated on the coast and is famous for its fishing port, its football team and the nearby beaches. The hinterland is composed of woods and hills of outstanding beauty. The research teams are involved in numerous international project and collaborate in a very relaxed atmosphere. Lorient is the home of the French Corpus Linguistic days that bring together researchers interested in all aspects of corpora - http://web.univ-ubs.fr/corpus/events.html
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Geoffrey Williams, MSc, PhD
Professeur en sciences du langage
Directeur du département d'ingénierie du document
Université de Bretagne Sud - Faculté LSHS
4 rue Jean Zay
BP 92116
56321 LORIENT CEDEX
FRANCE
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Université de Bretagne sud http://www.univ-ubs.fr/
A position is currently available to undertake a PhD in corpus linguistics and NLP at the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France.
Collocational Resonance and Semantic Relationships in Corpora. This thesis will look at semantic relationships discovered from the analysis of ollocational patterning. The aim is to analyse collocational relationships in arge corpora in both French and English to study meaning transfer using the otion of collocational resonance. Related theoretical frameworks will include Lexical Functions, FrameNet et Corpus Pattern Analysis. The study is situated between a contextual corpus linguistic approach and natural language processing, notable in the area of question-answer systems and ontologies. The thesis is part of the RESON Project, a collaborative project between the LiCoRN research team in the Humanities Faculty specialised in corpus linguistics and researchers in NLP from the VALORIA team of the University of South Brittany. The thesis will be co-supervised by Geoffrey Williams, HCTI-LiCoRN and Jeanne Villaneau, VALORIA,
Information about LiCoRN can be found at: http://web,univ-ubs,fr/corpus and
VALORIA at http://http://www-valoria.univ-ubs.fr/
Application: Candidates must apply to Pr. Geoffrey Williams Jeoffrey,williams@univ-ubs,fr before May, 30th. Knowledge of Corpus Lnguistics and NLP as well as fluency in French are essential.
The University of South Brittany is a small, but very dynamic university located in the Morbihan department in Brittany. It is centred around two towns, Vannes and Lorient. Lorient is situated on the coast and is famous for its fishing port, its football team and the nearby beaches. The hinterland is composed of woods and hills of outstanding beauty. The research teams are involved in numerous international project and collaborate in a very relaxed atmosphere. Lorient is the home of the French Corpus Linguistic days that bring together researchers interested in all aspects of corpora - http://web.univ-ubs.fr/corpus/events.html
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Geoffrey Williams, MSc, PhD
Professeur en sciences du langage
Directeur du département d'ingénierie du document
Université de Bretagne Sud - Faculté LSHS
4 rue Jean Zay
BP 92116
56321 LORIENT CEDEX
FRANCE
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Université de Bretagne sud http://www.univ-ubs.fr/