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Student Hourly Positions in Linguistics
The Department of LinguisticsÌýhires student hourly employees for a variety of purposes. Some faculty hire students to support research activities or for assistance with some courses. LinguisticsÌýmay also hire students to support the administration of the academic programs. If you are a CU student and interested in working for the LinguisticsÌýDepartment, positions will be posted when they are available. Contact Ethan.McGinnis@colorado.edu for more information.
Current Student Job Opportunities
The CLASIC program is looking to hire a current student for an hourly position to be paid at $25/hr for approximately 220 hours to assist with the following:
We will define and formalize a sequence-labeling task to determine whether utterances in the student dialogue are relevant to the overall curriculum and to specific curricular goals. To support model development and evaluation, we will create a dataset of manually annotated utterances. Then, we will develop models that assign relevance labels at the utterance level, enabling a fine-grained view of how students engage with instructional aims during small-group work. To assess the value of this approach for understanding small-group activities across multiple groups, we will conduct a qualitative analysis examining how different student groups in the same lesson differ in their coverage of curricular goals and whether such differences correspond to meaningful variations in collaborative dynamics or problem-solving trajectories.Ìý
This position will start 5/18/2026 and work approximately 20 hours per week. For consideration, please contact ethan.mcginnis@colorado.edu by EOD April 14, 2026.Ìý
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The CLASIC program is looking to hire a current student for an hourly position to be paid at $25/hr for approximately 220 hours to assist with the following:
This project would support the development of an AMR-guided spatial grounding framework for vision-language models in embodied settings. The student would help build pipelines to extract spatial constraints from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs and align them with structured 3D scene representations. Responsibilities would include mapping AMR roles to spatial predicates, integrating these constraints with neural models, and assisting with evaluation experiments on referring expression and placement tasks. This work would provide experience in multimodal reasoning, neuro-symbolic modeling, and embodied AI research.
This position will start 5/18/2026 and work approximately 20 hours per week. For consideration, please contact ethan.mcginnis@colorado.edu by EOD April 14, 2026.Ìý
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The Department of Linguistics is looking to hire a graduate student for an hourly position to assist with the undergraduate LURA Award blogs. The students authoring these blogs will be awarded aÌýLinguistics Undergraduate Research Award (LURA 2026)Ìýfor innovative work in a linguistics course at ÀϾÅÆ·²è.
Your tasks will include coordinating with instructors to get the required materials from student awardees, and then posting that content appropriately on the Department of Linguistics website. Last year blogs can be found here:Ìý/linguistics/lura-2025
Compensation: $25 / hour, ~40-50 hours total.
Qualifications: Someone who is detail-oriented and has experience with WebExpress would be desirable.
To apply: Email Chase Raymond (Chase.Raymond@colorado.edu) and describe your interest and relevant experience.Ìý
Note that the majority of the work for this position will be in the second half of the semester. We will want the LURA Awards to go ‘live’ before graduation on May 1st.
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Research Assistant for Professor Bhuvana Narasimhan - The position involves research for a psycholinguistic project on maternal communication and will take 3-5 hours/week at $20/hour. The tasks include data-collection from human subjects, transcription, coding and phonetic analysis.
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