Good morning, a reminder that this call is closing in less than a week! We are looking for a PhD candidate in the areas of Natural Language > Processing (NLP), Conversational AI and Multilingual NLP. > ===================================
> Application Deadline: 2 October 2022 > =================================== > > Job description: > This 4-year salaried PhD position is embedded in the project “Low-Resource > Chat-based Conversational Intelligence (LESSEN <http://lessen-project.nl/>), > funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project’s consortium brings > together a diverse set of academic researchers and industrial stakeholders > aimed at developing safe and transparent chat-based conversational AI > agents, based on state-of-the-art neural architectures. > In this context, the selected PhD candidate will work on > multilinguality-related challenges and opportunities, with the goal of > improving conversational agents under data scarcity conditions. Besides > enabling knowledge sharing among high- and low-resource languages and > language variants, the project aims at empowering chatbots to handle > code-switching utterances, which are common in many communities. > > Qualifications: > We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic student with a Master > degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer > science, information science, or related areas. > Machine learning skills are mandatory; experience with training and/or > designing neural networks for language processing tasks is strongly > desired; experience in conversational systems is a plus. Furthermore, an > excellent knowledge of English and good academic writing skills are > essential. > > Organisation: > The PhD candidate will be based at the Centre for Language and Cognition > of the University of Groningen (CLCG) and will collaborate with other > researchers from the Lessen project. The research will be carried out in > the context of the Computational Linguistics group ( > https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/) of the CLCG research > institute. > > Application Deadline: 2 October 2022 > Start date: 1 January 2023 > > Find all details and apply here: > > https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009GWP&cat=phd > > For questions you can contact: > Dr A. Bisazza, [email protected] > > Please do NOT use the e-mail address above for applications. > Please first check if your question is already answered at the application > link > <https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009GWP&cat=phd> > . > -- Arianna Bisazza Assistant Professor University of Groningen http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza
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