02.07.2025

PhD Researcher in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

Faculty of Humanities, Department of General and Computational Linguistics

Bewerbungsfrist: 24.07.2025

The following position is available in the newly established Collaborative Research Center 1718 “Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG).

PhD Researcher in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

The position begins on 01 October 2025 and ends on 30 June 2029. 

The position is associated with project C2 “Signaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication” of CRC 1718. The aim of this interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic project is to investigate the commonalities or the differences between the cues (verbal, prosodic, gestural, textual) that are employed to signal or interpret irony across different modalities in different communication environments. For the advertised PhD researcher position, this work involves written and multi-modal corpora development and analysis, and working with computational models of irony and analysis. Specifically, the PhD candidate is expected to contribute corpora preparation (collection and organizing the annotation), use machine learning approaches for irony detection, and testing for experimental and corpora data correlation.

Requirements:

• A master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or related fields.
• Solid background in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
• Experience with corpus collection and annotation
• Familiarity with experimental design and statistical analysis methods
• Fluency in English

Not required, but desirable:

• Familiarity with speech processing, or willingness to work with them
• Experience with multi-modal machine learning methods
• Familiarity with formal linguistics, particularly formal semantics and pragmatics

We encourage applications from individuals who closely align with the profile of the ideal candidate, even if not all criteria are fully met. If you believe your experience and skills broadly match the description, we would be pleased to hear from you.

The project offers a cohesive interdisciplinary research environment at the University of Tübingen and a dedicated interdisciplinary project team. We will support the PhD researcher in gaining any skills essential to the successful completion of the project, and we offer him/her/them the opportunity to obtain additional skills related to interdisciplinary language science research more generally.

Equally qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference in the hiring process. The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. It therefore takes individual situations into account and asks for relevant information. 

The University of Tübingen seeks to raise the number of women in research and teaching and therefore urges suitable qualified women academics to apply for this position.

The following application documents should be sent to Çağrı Çöltekin cagri.coeltekinspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de via email. 

• A short (two pages, max.) cover letter with your research interests and your motivation for applying to this position
• Your academic CV, including email addresses of two referees
• An academic transcript
• A sample of academic writing (master’s thesis, or another publication or term paper, if the thesis is not complete at the time of application)  

The deadline for submitting applications is 24 July 2025 at 23:59 (Berlin time). 

Interviews will be conducted via Zoom on 30 and/or 31 July 2025. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be notified as soon as possible after the submission deadline.

The employment process will be handled by the central administration of the University of Tübingen.