Just a reminder about a postdoc position in large-scale language model training available at the Language Technology Group (LTG), University of Oslo.
Application deadline: *September 23rd, 2022* For more information, please see the full announcement 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 me for any further information. On 26.08.2022 16:16, Andrey Kutuzov wrote: > [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]
