PhD Student Position (FPI scholarship by Spanish Ministry)

Research group GALABRA of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) announces the opening of an application for a 4-year FPI contract to carry out a PhD within the framework of the project ‘Narratives, Uses and Consumptions by Visitors as Allies or Menaces for the Community Well-Being: The Case of Santiago de Compostela’. The main objective of the PhD thesis is to develop novel methods, strategies and tools for semantically modeling the information contained in a written/oral corpus compiled and annotated by the group GALABRA network about narratives and activities of visitors in Santiago de Compostela.

GALABRA Principal Investigator: Elias J.Torres Feijó.

PhD supervisors in CiTIUS: Xosé Ramón R. Viqueira and Pablo Gamallo.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Educational Level / Degree: MSc.

• Field / specialty: any field including Social and Human Sciences or IT

• Languages: Portuguese or Spanish (English is a plus).

  Other skills:

• Basic knowledge in some programming language, namely scripting (python, perl...).

• Experience in the use and configuration of tools for natural language processing (Stanford CoreNLP, openNLP, FreeLing, etc.).

• Basic knowledge or experience in the use of GIS systems – geolocation.

  FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS:

  Interested candidates should submit an application to the institutional program of Spanish Ministry by 29 October 2018.

  Contact:

  Elias J. Torres Feijó: eliasjose.torres@usc.es