University or Organization: University of Lisbon/Center of Linguistics
Job Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Web Address: http://www.clul. ul.pt/

Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Experimental Linguistics

Description:
The Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon is broadly based, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented. The faculty offers courses and conducts research in languages and cultures of Western, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, history, archaeology, art history, performative and visual arts, literature, philosophy, communication, translation and media studies, as well as African and Asian studies.

Graduate courses are strongly interweaved with research centres, and graduate students amount to one third of the Faculty students. The Centre of Linguistics (CLUL) is committed to theoretical, theoretically oriented, descriptive and experimental research leading to novel (gap-filling) contributions to linguistic analysis, targeting both adult and child grammars, as well as language processing. Presently, the Centre includes a Psycholinguists Lab and a Phonetics Lab, and several lines of research within Experimental Linguistics are being developed. In particular, the integration of research in theoretical and experimental linguistics is a central objective for present and future research, which necessarily calls for the strengthening of the research team in the area of Experimental Linguistics. This strengthening is crucial to several developing lines of research and research projects, namely within speech and language processing and the interface between syntax, phonology and language processing. Among the research questions being pursued, we highlight the following: the role of frequency and grammar in online lexical access/word detection; implicit prosody, syntax and language processing; early language development (word segmentation, phonology, syntax) approached namely via perception studies with infants and babies.

CLUL thus offers a postdoc position in Experimental Linguistics. The researcher will set up and test hypotheses addressing the questions mentioned above, among others of interest to the research team.
Experimental methods may include word spotting, lexical decision, eye-tracking, distributional learning, head-turn preference procedure.
Another important aim is the development and advancement of experimental techniques to be used in current lines of research and new projects. The researcher will be actively collaborating with current research projects, and involved in the supervision of Masters and PhD students, as well as in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of research data. It is also expected that the researcher will set up a project in the areas of interest just described, thus contributing to the central objectives of the team.

Applicants should have a strong commitment to internationally- recognized research and demonstrated capacities as an independent researcher, especially in the form of journal publications. The successful candidate should have a background in an experimental linguistic discipline, such as psycholinguistics, speech perception, language development, or experimental phonology. Some knowledge of Portuguese is desirable, but not required.

Applications should include (i) a letter of motivation, (ii) a curriculum vitae, (iii) copies of degree certificates, (iv) copy of an identification document, and (v) a minimum of two letters of recommendation or two contacts of qualified specialists who may recommend the candidate. Please send two publications plus PhD dissertation.

E-mail applications should be sent in PDF, DOC or RTF format, and should specify the candidate's name and the job reference number in the message as well as in the subject field.

Application Deadline: 08-Sep-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
Lisboa 1649-003
Portugal
Email Address for Applications: directiva@clul. ul.pt
Contact Information:
Sonia Frota
Email: sonia.frota@ mail.telelpac. pt

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University or Organization: University of Lisbon/Center of Linguistics
Job Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Web Address: http://www.clul. ul.pt/

Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Description:

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon is broadly based, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented. The faculty offers courses and conducts research in languages and cultures of Western, Central,Eastern and Southern Europe, history, archaeology, art history, performative and visual arts, literature, philosophy, communication, translation and media studies, as well as African and Asian studies.
Graduate courses are strongly interweaved with research centres, and graduate students amount to one third of the Faculty students. The Centre of Linguistics (CLUL) is committed to theoretical, theoretically oriented, descriptive and experimental research leading to novel (gap-filling) contributions to linguistic analysis, as well to making available to the scientific community new language resources such as corpora, databases and tools that may significantly contribute to linguistic and multidisciplinary research. Understanding language variation has been a long-standing objective within CLUL. However, the study of language variation has only very recently targeted prosodic variation, both within CLUL and elsewhere.

The inspection of the prosodic properties of local varieties of European Portuguese is thus largely to be done. Therefore, questions like how the organization of speech into chunks varies across Portugal, what intonation patterns are used in the different regions, or whether speech rhythm contributes to regional varieties remain to be answered. Research on prosodic variation is of central interest to language typologies, to grammatical studies (syntax-prosody and morphology-prosody interfaces), to speech and language processing, to language development, to language pathology, or to speech technologies. CLUL is engaged in developing this area of research, by addressing prosodic variation within a program of international scope that proposes a system for prosodic transcription and labeling of speech corpora, together with a set of methodological procedures that enable cross-linguistic work on prosodic variation in language.

CLUL offers a postdoc position in Phonology, Phonetics and Language Variation. The researcher will set up a project conducing to an Interactive Atlas of European Portuguese Prosody and Intonation, freely accessed online. Data collection for prosody and intonation survey will follow the procedures established in recent similar projects for other European languages (such as British English or Catalan). Data processing will make available new resources for further in-depth studies of Portuguese prosody and related applications. The researcher will be actively collaborating with the members of the research team committed to the study of prosody, and involved in the supervision of Masters and PhD students.

Applicants should have a strong commitment to internationally- recognized research and demonstrated capacities as an independent researcher, especially in the form of journal publications. The successful candidate should have a background in the phonetics and phonology of prosody. Experience with tonal labeling (ToBI) is welcome. Some knowledge of Portuguese is desirable, but not required.

Applications should include a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, copies of degree certificates, copy of an identification document, a minimum of two letters of recommendation or two contacts of qualified specialists who may recommend the candidate. Please send two publications plus PhD dissertation. E-mail applications should be sent in PDF, DOC or RTF format.

Application Deadline: 08-Sep-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
Centro de Linguística Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
Lisboa 1649-003
Portugal
Email Address for Applications: directiva@clul. ul.pt
Contact Information:
Sonia Frota
Email: sonia.frota@ mail.telelpac. pt

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University or Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCSH
Department: Centro de Linguística da UNL
Job Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Web Address: http://www.fcsh. unl.pt/clunl

Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Description:
The Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL) wishes to admit 4 researchers for a period of five years. The candidates should have at least 3 years of relevant post-doc research in the following areas:
- Psycholinguistics (Syntax);
- Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology;
- Linguistics (Grammaticalization );
- Discourse Interaction.

The candidates will join an existing Research Unit at FCSH-UNL. CLUNL is a Research Unit that develops and promotes research in different areas of Linguistics (website listed above).

For more information, see:
http://www.eracaree rs.pt/opportunit ies/index. aspx?task= global&jobId= 10327
http://www.eracaree rs.pt/opportunit ies/index. aspx?task= global&jobId= 10388
http://www.eracaree rs.pt/opportunit ies/index. aspx?task= global&jobId= 10390
http://www.eracaree rs.pt/opportunit ies/index. aspx?task= global&jobId= 10392

To apply, please send CV, research project (2 pages maximum), at least one recommendation letter and a motivation letter to the application email address listed below.
Application Deadline: 19-Sep-2008
Email Address for Applications: ciencia2008@ fcsh.unl. pt
Contact Information:
Centro de Linguística Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Email: clunl@fcsh.unl. pt

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EUROPEAN MASTERS PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC
http://ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/

The Department of Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, is offering the European Masters Program in Computational Logic as part of its Bologna 2nd cycle offer. It is an international distributed Master of Science course (MSc.), in cooperation with the computer science departments in the following universities:

* Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
* Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
* Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
* Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

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This program, entirely in English, involves studying one year at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and possibly completing the second year with a stay in one of the partner universities. After this, the student will obtain, together with the European degree, two Master of Science degrees: the Mestrado em Lógica Computacional degree from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with legal value in Portugal, and the respective Master of Science degree from the visited university, with legal value in its country.

NEXT APPLICATION DEADLINES:

* 31 May 2008: deadline for all European and non-European students (notification of acceptance: 15 July 2008)
* 01 September 2008: last deadline only for European students starting at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (notification of acceptance: 10 September 2008)


SCHOLARSHIPS & MONEY SUPPORT:
There will be 12 consortium scholarships to waive the tuition fee of 3.000 â‚ for students without a scholarship, on the basis of their academic merit.

Every year 10 EMCL students with European citizenship can visit Australia (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane) up to 3 months to work on a research project, sponsored by the European Master. The study period in Australia is part of the study programme and it is fully recognised by the European Master`s Program in Computational Logic. The guaranteed scholarship is of 3,100 â‚ and it covers the travel and living expenses in Australia.

APPLICATION:
Check this web page for detailed info on applications:
http://ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/content/prospective/how_to_apply.html

THE STUDY PROGRAMME:
The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is designed to meet the demands of industry and research in this rapidly growing area. Based on a solid foundation in mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and declarative programming students will acquire in-depth knowledge necessary to specify, implement and run complex systems as well as to prove properties of these systems. In particular, the focus of instruction will be in deduction systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, artificial intelligence, formal specification and verification, syntax directed semantics, logic and automata theory, logic and computability. This basic knowledge is then applied to areas like logic and natural language processing, logic and the semantic web, bioinformatics, information systems and database technology, software and hardware verification. Students will acquire practical experience and will become familiar in the use of tools within these applications. In addition, students will be prepared for a future PhD, they will come in contact with the international research community and will be integrated into ongoing research projects. They will develop competence in foreign languages and international relationships, thereby improving their social skills.

Applicants should have a Bachelor degree (Bologna 1st cycle or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Logic, or other relevant disciplines; special cases will be considered. The programme is part of the Master in Computational Logic (Mestrado em Lógica Computacional) and it has various strengths that make it unique amongst Portuguese and European universities:

Curriculum taught entirely in English:

* The programme is open to the world and prepares the students to move on the international scene.
* Possibility of a strongly research-oriented curriculum.
* Possibility for project-based routes to obtain the degree and extensive lab facilities.
* International student community.
* Direct interaction with the local and international industry and research centres, with the possibility of practical and research internships that can lead to future employment.
* Excellent scholarship opportunities and student accommodations.


The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is one of the few European Masters awarded by the European Uni0n`s Erasmus Mundus programme from its first year of existence in 2004. The Erasmus Mundus programme is a co-operation and mobility programme in the field of higher education which promotes the European Uni0n as a centre of excellence in learning around the world. It supports European top-quality Masters Courses and enhances the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in third-countries. It also provides EU-funded scholarships for third-country nationals participating in these Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU-nationals studying in third-countries.

The European Masters Program in Computational Logic is sponsored scientifically by the European Network of Excellence on Computational Logic (CoLogNET), the European Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA, member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications (AILA), and the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Prof. Luis Moniz Pereira, at lmp@di.fct.unl. pt
Departamento de InformÃtica
Faculdade de CiÃncias e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2829-516 Caparica
Portugal

Phone: +351 21 294 8536 (Secretary)
Fax: +351 21 294 8541
European MSc in Computational Logic site:
http://ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/

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PhD positions Engineering Systems: Sustainable Energy, Engineering Design and Manufacturing, Bio Engineering, Transportation

http://www.mitportu gal.org/prospect ive-students

The MIT Portugal Program (http://www.mitportu gal.org) announces its call for applications for the 2008-09 academic year. Each program is offered in association by a consortium of Portuguese universities, with the participation of MIT (US) faculty.

Applications are open in four Engineering Systems fields:
EDAM-Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, Transportation Systems, Sustainable Energy Systems and Bio-Engineering Systems. Formal candidacy materials and the online application form will be available at the MIT Portugal Program website. Candidates will simultaneously apply for FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) scholarships.

Application Details

Job Starting Date: 15/09/2008
Application Deadline: 31/03/2008
How To Apply:
http://www.mitportu gal.org/componen t/option, com_forme/ Itemid,149

Required Education Level
Degree: Bachelor/Masters
Required Languages

Language: ENGLISH

Certification: Bachelor/Masters

Comment: Students in their bachelor's final year can apply
http://ec.europa. eu/eracareers/ index_en. cfm?l1=1& l2=1&l3=1& IDJob=22921849

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