date: 2023-03-17 09:52:42
by: Christoph(e) Purschke

#NLProc #lowres #Luxembourgish

We have an open PhD position at the University of Luxembourg in Computational Sociolinguistics.

Project info & a link to the profile can be found here: https://purschke.info/en/travolta/

The PhD will focus on stance detection and NLP for small languages.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1636666861604544514
#PhdPosition

The meanings of words often changes in unpredictable ways. One of my favourite examples is:

• #Dutch/#German ijdel/eitel
• #English idle
• #Luxembourgish eidel

The Dutch and German words translate to English as ‘vain’. The English word typically refers to a person or system that is inactive, not occupied. The Luxembourgish word, by contrast, means ‘(physically) empty’: D’Fläsch ass eidel (The bottle is empty).

#etymology