Data scraping and wrangling

This project is closed.

The Bilingual Annotation TaskS Force is an interdisciplinary research group of faculty and students from the disciplines of linguistics, computer science, and electrical engineering with shared interests in using computational techniques for the analysis of language mixing in bilingual speech.

Project Website
http://sites.utexas.edu/bats/
Qualifications

We are seeking a data scientist with an interest in linguistics. Specifically, we seek someone who can scrape language data from the Web and/or Twitter and spread, gather or unite variables, deal with missing values, visualize data, and work with strings and, possibly, with relational data. Experience in python and/or R and an interest in human languages other than English are helpful.

Project Timeline

The project is on-going and interns typically serve several semesters.

Duties

Assist in the creation of mixed language corpora via web scraping and in the tidying and visualization of linguistic data.

Typical Time Commitment
5/week
Desired Length of Commitment
2 semesters
Tags
computational linguistics
bilingualism
coding
statistics
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Project Lead
Faculty Collaborators
Who to Contact
Barbara Bullock
Contact Email
bbullock@austin.utexas.edu

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