We have an opening for a fully-funded, 4-year PhD position in the research area of Natural Language Processing for responsible Data Science at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The position is part of the national 'Digital Society' program, which is funded by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU). Deadline for applications: March 28, 2019 Project description The use of deep learning methodologies in the AI research area of natural language processing (NLP) has resulted in tremendous advances for many NLP tasks. One of the most challenging NLP tasks is the automated generation of natural language sentences or sequences of sentences.Increasingly these techniques are used in real-world applications, including journalism, creative industries, and e-commerce. As a consequence, there is a strong demand for highly effective, transparent, and explainable algorithms and models for natural language generation. Within this research project, the PhD candidate will investigate and develop novel language generation approaches based on deep learning methodologies that effective, transparent, and explainable. Depending on the PhD student’s interests, relevant research scenarios can include abstractive summarization, neural machine translation, and dialog systems. The PhD candidate will be based at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam and collaborate with other researchers within the Digital Society program. Tasks * Conduct computer science research with a special focus on deep learning for natural language processing; * publish in top tier conferences and journals in relevant areas; * provide teaching assistance (10%); * collaborate closely with other interdisciplinary team members of the Responsible Data Science line with the Digital Society program; * complete a PhD thesis. Requirements Candidates must have, or be near completion of, an MSc degree in computer science or artificial intelligence. In addition, you should: * have strong curiosity to solve problems in natural language processing; * have a strong background in probability theory, statistics, and machine learning; * have excellent programming skills in at least two of the following languages: C, C++, Java, or Python; * enjoy working with real-world problems and real-word, large data sets; * have excellent communication skills, both oral and written; * enjoy working in a closely collaborating team. The candidates should appreciate an international and highly interdisciplinary environment in which academic-industrial collaboration is central. Appointment The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of 18 months and after satisfactory evaluation it can be extended for a total duration of 4 years. The appointment should lead to a dissertation (PhD thesis). An educational plan will be drafted that includes attendance of courses and (international) meetings. The PhD candidate is also expected to assist in teaching of bachelor and master students. The gross monthly salary will range from 2,325 Euro (first year) up to a maximum of 2,972 Euro (last year). The salary is based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week). The total salary includes an additional 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end-of-year bonus, under the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (Cao). A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. Among other things, we offer: * competitive pay and good benefits; * top-50 University worldwide; * one of the best Deep Learning Ecosystems in the World * interactive, open-minded and a very international city; * excellent computing facilities. English is the working language in the Informatics Institute. As in Amsterdam almost everybody speaks and understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier. Contact Dr. Christof Monz email: c.m...@uva.nl For more details and a link to the application form, please visit: http://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2019/02/19-124-phd-position-in-nlp-for-responsible-data-science.html --- Christof Monz Informatics Institute University of Amsterdam Visiting address: Office C3.231 Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam The Netherlands Mailing address: P.O. Box 94323 1090 GH Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)20-525-8676 Fax: +31 (0)20-525-7490 Email: c.m...@uva.nl Web: http://www.science.uva.nl/~christof _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list Mt-list@eamt.org http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
