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Postdoctoral position (3y) in computational linguistics, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Deadline: Sunday 8 September 2019

Successful applicants will be participating in the project 'A composition calculus for vector-based semantic modelling with a localization for Dutch'. Focusing on empirical data from Dutch, the project aims to combine a vector-based modelling of lexical semantics with a typelogical compositional account of how word meanings are combined to obtain interpretations for larger linguistic units. The project is funded by the NWO Open Competition programme and will be conducted at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Principal investigator (PI) is Michael Moortgat.

The present job vacancy concerns the subproject 'P3: Empirical validation of the extended vector-based semantic model'. This project evaluates the abstract grammatical model on Dutch empirical data, and conducts a number of experiments in order to measure the performance of the model as compared to alternative approaches. The focus is on the structural particularities of the Dutch language that pose a challenge to a compositional vector-based interpretation.

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