Post-doctoral research position in the Neoveille Project : study of borrowings in seven languages Context The Neoveille Project is a research project funded for three years by the Sorbonne Paris Cité University Community (www.spc.fr). The project gathers four SPC research centers : LIPN-RCLN (Paris 13 University, CNRS UMR 7030), LDI (Paris 13 University, CNRS UMR 7186), CLILLAC-ARP (Paris 7 University, EA 3967), ERTIM (INALCO, EA 2520), one Brazilian partner (Sao Paulo University) and one international research group on Neology (EMPNEO). The goals of the project are threefold : developing a software for automatically retrieving, analyzing and tracking the life of neologisms in seven languages (French, Brasilian Portuguese, Greek, Polish, Czech, Chinese and Russian); studying borrowings in these seven languages; studying semantic neology in the seven languages. Post-doc subject Two main axes of borrowings research have been chosen in the project : determinologization, i.e. the ways in which terminological terms and meanings shift from specialized usage to general usage; life cycles of borrowings in seven languages, i.e. the ways in which borrowings are introduced into other languages and how they implant (or not) themselves. As for the first theme, the study will analyze from corpora how borrowings diffusion occurs in generalist media : gloses, typographical markers, events triggering or easing the diffusion, timelapse of diffusion from terminology to general lexical knowledge. Neologism mining will also focus on borrowings and the concurency of local terms. Respective diffusion and life cycles deserve to be studied and explicitated for the seven languages of the project. Required skills The researcher is expected to have knowledge in general linguistics and lexicology, with research focusing on neology and borrowings. The post doctoral fellow must master corpus linguistics tools (IMS Corpus Workbench, SketchEngine...). A general knowledge of natural language processing techniques and tools will be greatly appreciated (retrieval and querying of corpora, POS-tagging, dependency parsing). Thèse skills and the use of tools developed within the project will enable the researcher to extract new borrowings from newspapers and analyse their life cycles. The project will also use the Neologia database, with its own description fields. The goal of the research will be to compare the respective life cycles of borrowings in the seven languages and to adequately describe the mechanisms implied. Post-doc duration: 12 months, start end 2015 / beginning 2016 Salary : 25 000 euros net / year Localisation : Paris 7, Paris 13. Contacts: Natalie Kubler (CLILLAC-ARP, Paris 7 : ), Jean-François Sablayrolles (LDI, Paris 13 : jfsablayrolles@wanadoo.fr), Emmanuel Cartier (LIPN, Paris 13 : emmanuel.cartier@lipn.univ-paris13.fr) Prospective applicants should email to the contacts : a letter of application including a proposition of research into the frame described above a detailed CV with a list of publications and diploma, names of two referents (with email address)