School of Linguistics

The Higher School of Economics School of Linguistics in Moscow, Russia invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the fields Slavic languages, computer corpora, computational linguistics, semantics and lexicography, language teaching tools and other electronic linguistic resources; typology; sociolinguistics; semantics; language acquisition.

The job involves:

• working under the direct supervision of Ekaterina Rakhilina.
• participants are encouraged to pursue their own research in parallel with working on Laboratory for Corpus and Interdisciplinary Technologies research projects in the areas of corpus building and annotation, language of heritage speakers, lexical typology, semantics, lexicography, computational linguistics, and other linguistic subfields;
• writing research papers for international peer-reviewed journals in co-authorship with the members of the Lab;
• participation in organization of the events and other contribution to the Lab’s development;
• public presentations of candidate’s own research to the researchers in the field and the broader academic community;
• some teaching is encouraged, though not required.

School of Linguistics offers access to its databases and electronic resources.

Requirements:

• a PhD from an international research university in such fields as: linguistics; Slavic languages; computer science,
• ability to work in a team,
• fluent English
• relevant experience is an asset although not required

General conditions for Post-Doctoral Research positions can be found here. Appointments will be normally made for one year.

A CV and research statement  should be submitted via online application form and two letters of recommendation should be submitted by the referees directly to fellowship@hse.ru by February 15, 2019. Please note that direct applications to the hiring School may not be reviewed.

About HSE

HSE is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Russian research university providing unique research opportunities. For more information about HSE, please visit our web pages: Higher School of Economics, School of Linguistics. You can also contact Ekaterina Rakhilina at rakhilina@gmail.com or Valentina Apresyan at vapresyan@hse.ru.

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