Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational and Experimental Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf [DE]

The position is part of the DFG-funded project Learning Linguistic Inferences and Their Alternatives . The project investigates how language models learn linguistic inferences — including implicatures, presuppositions, implicated presuppositions, free choice, and distributive inferences — and whether training on one inference type facilitates learning of others.

The postdoc will play a central role across the project's work packages, contributing to the computational components of the project as well as to the design and implementation of online behavioral experiments, dataset construction, and data analysis. A successful candidate should  hold a PhD degree in Linguistics or a closely related field, have expertise in computational linguistics and be able to engage with both the experimental and computational aspects of the project.