[with apologies for cross-posting] The Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo offers a fully funded postdoctoral fellowship for a duration of 3 years.
This position is a part of a new EU Horizon project titled “High-Performance Language Technologies” (HPLT). HPLT is a collaboration between 5 universities (Oslo, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Prague and Turku), 2 high-performance computing centers (Uninett Sigma2 in Norway and Cesnet in the Czech Republic), and one Spanish company (Prompsit) on the development of language and translation models at scale. The project aims at continuous integration of pre-trained language models and data, resulting in free downloadable high-quality models for all official European Union languages and beyond. With a strong focus on multi-linguality, reproducibility, openness and scale, HPLT will allow easy discovery and access to corpora, models and code. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow interested in processing and maintaining very large troves of natural language data (in particular, significant parts of the Internet Archive). These corpora and datasets will be used for training, updating, evaluating and publicly serving state-of-the-art language models for European languages (both monolingual and multilingual). This includes developing and refining automated replicable software installations across high-performance computing (HPC) systems, notably the new LUMI European pre-exascale supercomputer. The successful candidate will join the HPLT project team and enjoy an active role in the consortium. Applicants must hold a degree equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, or Computer Science with a suitable specialization. Candidates whose doctoral thesis has been submitted for evaluation by the closing date are encouraged to apply. Only applicants with an approved doctoral thesis and public defense prior to the start date will be eligible for appointment. The application deadline is September 23, 2022. Starting date subject to discussion, but no later than February 1, 2023. For more information, please see the full announcement and application form here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/231118/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-large-scale-natural-language-processing Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information: - postdoctoral fellow Andrey Kutuzov: [email protected] - professor Stephan Oepen: [email protected] -- Andrey Postdoctoral Fellow Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
