PRR Project

Summary

The researcher will be expected to:? Present and coordinate lexicography and corpus linguistics projects in collaboration with different working groups within the center;? Produce research that optimizes lexicographical description;? Carry out corpus-based research;? Support the development of lexical databases;? Develop resources for automatic extraction of lexical information from corpora; ? Support the design and development of computational lexicographical resources;? Participate in national and international research networks;? Design and manage lexicographical projects of different types, including Portal da Língua Portuguesa and Pluricentric Portuguese Dictionary. ? Train lexicographers;Carry out research on Portuguese from a pluricentric perspective;? Support the compilation and annotation of corpora;? Coordinate the maintenance, update and further development of Portal da Língua Portuguesa. Scientific profile? Ph.D. in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics/Language Sciences/Corpus Linguistics;? Work experience as a lexicographer; ? Experience in linguistic research from a pluricentric perspective;? Experience in creating corpora and developing resources for corpus interrogation;? Knowledge in the areas of PLNM (Teaching Portuguese to Speakers of Other Languages) and discourse studies, especially academic discourse studies? Experience in corpus-based studies;? Relevant publications and experience in coordinating fellows and/or projects;? Clear strategy of internationalization;? Motivation, autonomy, ability to organize and manage work;? Ability to support project management? Level C2 proficiency in Portuguese and level C1 in English. RationaleThe field of Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative intelligence tools, and the ethical issues related to their use represent an opportunity for immediate research to which linguistic knowledge is fundamental. CELGA-ILTEC is particularly well positioned to make a relevant contribution to the advancement of knowledge in this area given the huge amount of open access, reliable linguistic data and resources it has produced over the past decade. These resources include, for example, more than 10 open access and searchable linguistic corpora and the lexical database underlying the Portal da Língua Portuguesa, which hosts the legal official tools and resources for the spelling standardization in Portugal.In addition to this, CELGA-ILTEC has successfully established strategic partnerships with international research consortiums, reference universities and civil society institutions in several Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa and Asia (ex. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, in Mozambique; Macao Polytechnic University and IPOR in Macao; Uni-CV), as well as language policy agencies such as IILP (International Institute for the Portuguese Language) and Camões, I.P. These partnerships offer the unique opportunity to engage in the documentation and creation of curated datasets of non-dominant varieties of Portuguese. This is important because the data on non-dominant varieties of Portuguese are currently extremely scarce and, most importantly, representative of a specific number of language uses, which may constraint the reliability of the data for research purposes.The continuous development of both existing and future resources, as well as their adjustment to the generative AI revolution, requires a full-time computational linguist who can coordinate the process, liaise with CELGA-ILTEC’s external providers of specific computational services and hence help the center maintain its tradition of carrying out applied linguistic with high societal impact, as is the case of Portal da Língua Portuguesa.