PhD position: Computational linguistics, negation

At the Institute of English and American Studies, Department of Modern Philologies, at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the position of a

Research Associate
(pay scale E 13 TV-G-U, 65% part-time)

The responsibilities of the position include collaboration and scientific services in research within the project B05. The project explores the occurrence of Negative Polarity Items in non-negative contexts in German, Romanian, and English. Specifically, the following tasks are expected of the position holder:

1. Corpus linguistic analysis and processing of project data
2. Design of a research database
3. Collaboration in the development of new methods for data extraction from corpora
4. Acquisition, annotation, and analysis of corpus data
5. Formal semantic modelling within a constraint-based grammar framework
6. Presentation and publication of project results

The opportunity for academic qualification (PhD) and independent research will be provided.

Requirements:

• Completed academic university degree (Master) in linguistics or a relevant field with a (potentially computational) linguistic focus
• Very good language skills in English (C1) and German
• Proficiency in common software (including Python and LaTeX)
• Ability to work independently, teamwork, and communication skills
• Demonstrable interest in the following areas: formal semantics and pragmatics, formal grammar, corpus linguistics (including quantitative methods)
• Interest in working with databases (MariaDB), Large Language Models, and XML
• Knowledge of statistics and constraint-based grammar frameworks is advantageous

Please submit your application with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and relevant certificates in original and, if necessary, certified translations into German or English) electronically in one single PDF document by 01.05.2025, to Frank Richter, Email: f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de.