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Bourse doctorale : Swansea UniversityThe College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Science, Swansea University, invite applications for a fully funded PhD in Digital Humanities.The project’s objective is to create new ways of discovering, tracking and understanding past and present uses of scriptural texts (Bible, Quran) in massive text corpora, leveraging multiple translations in diverse languages in diverse sources. The sub-objectives are: (a) to track the translational (in)stability of concepts, passages, events, and named entities; (b) to track citations/paraphrases across linked e-corpora (archives of books and newspapers, new web corpora); (c) to develop techniques using dynamic, interactive visualisations to support exploratory analyses of this kind of big, fuzzy natural language data; (d) to encourage public engagement with this research.The project is significant for comparative religious studies, politics, sociology, cultural histories, area studies, linguistics and translation studies, web studies, digital humanities and big text data analytics. It aims to transform academic and public understandings of cross-language religious tradition and change.Pour plus d'informations :http://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/scholarships/research/digital-humanities-phd-tracking-translations-citations-paraphrases.phpEligibilityCandidates should have a good Bachelors (2.1 or higher) or Masters degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline such as Digital Humanities, or computer-based Textual Studies.Applicants with proven humanities research software skills and some relevant domain knowledge (scripture, languages/translation) are highly desirable.Candidates should be highly motivated, ambitious, focused, like to collaborate in a team and have:Solid programming abilities with a strong interest in improving their software development skillsAn interest in carrying out internationally leading, scholarly research including dissemination through conferences and journalsExperience in computer graphics, e.g., OpenGL and an interest in improving their computer graphics programming skillsFluent and articulate communication in both written and spoken English – particularly with experience in academic writing.Due to funding restrictions, this studentship is open to UK/EU candidates only. &#160;Date limite : 30 avril 2016