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<div><a href="http://ai4commsci.github.io/">The Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Communication Science Group</a> is hiring a new member of our team working on the indigenous languages of Taiwan (which are not related to Chinese). This position may be filled at the post-bac level (expected salary: $54k-$60k, depending on experience) or post-doc level (starting at $75k). Remote work is possible. People who can start immediately are preferred, but summer start dates will be considered.</div><div><br></div><div>They are poorly understood, but they are understood well enough for it to be clear that they break theory. They break linguistic theories. They break theories of language acquisition. And it is not even clear where to begin with respect to theories of language processing or neurolinguistics. They are also highly endangered. A number are already gone – some without leaving any record at all – and at current rate the remaining 16 will be gone by the end of the century.</div><div><br></div><div>Computational and experimental research require corpora, so we have been working with researchers and community groups to leverage artificial intelligence to compile <a href="https://ai4commsci.gitbook.io/formosanbank">a large corpus</a> – currently over 8 million tokens and 730 hours of audio. While we are still rapidly adding to the corpus — we anticipate reaching over 20 million tokens within a year or so — we are also scaling up our computational and experimental research.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for someone to help manage the corpus project and contribute to any of the following:</div><ul><li>Building NLP tools such as ASR and MT</li><li>Computational analyses of language structure</li><li>Computational models of acquisition</li><li>Psycholinguistic studies</li><li>Language acquisition research (home-based acquisition, immersion schools, etc.)</li></ul><div><br></div><div>We are especially interested in applicants who can speak a Formosan language; can read and write Chinese; have experience with NLP in low-resource contexts; have experience with language documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>To apply, please fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuElfV3GzuHsfpb8-P5lPuhSgIQmDjk474eoodzE4d0IGGmw/viewform?usp=dialog">this application</a>.</div><div><br>Learn more about our research group <a href="http://ai4commsci.github.io/">here</a>.<br><br></div><div>Please send questions to <a href="mailto:jkhartshorne@fas.harvard.edu">jkhartshorne@fas.harvard.edu</a></div>
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