Research opportunities for students

We are excited to collaborate with students who want to gain hands-on research expertise. Students with knowledge of either Kazakh, Italian, Chinese, and Russian are welcome to reach out contacting Dr. Giorgia Troiani with an email explaining your background in linguistics, any existing research interests, and why you are interested in joining the project.

Below are some examples of the tasks available to research assistants. We welcome collaboration on alternative topics proposed by the students.

1. Transcription of spoken conversational data using the Discourse Functional Transcription system and translation of data into English to make data available to an international audience. Research assistants will acquire competence in the transcription conventions, acquire expertise in the use of ELAN, a software used in the production of subtitles, and become proficient in the preparation of linguistic data for analysis.
2. Preparation of data for import into the NoSketchEngine platform, encoding of the data in XML format, and participation in the creation of a gold treebank based on the MCSKL data, ideally to be merged into the UD treebanks for  Kazakh. Research assistants will familiarize themselves with the XML system and the UDT framework, gain expertise on  the spoken language data encoding system, and acquire knowledge of the main query types
3. In-depth annotation of prosodic, syntactic, and interactional variables on conversational data. Research assistants will acquire proficiency in the main annotation 
   systems and analysis tools tailored to individual languages and will learn to independently formulate queries of varying complexity.