We invite applications for one PhD student position in pragmatic program
generation. The goal of the PhD project is to develop and evaluate methods that
can automatically turn natural language descriptions of what a program should
do into executable computer code, with a special focus on dealing with
ambiguities and lack of detail in the natural language descriptions.
The position, to be established in the group "Computer Science and
Computational Linguistics" (Prof. Vera Demberg
<https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg.html>), is part of a
collaboration with the Software Engineering Group
<https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/> of Prof. Sven Apel and the Machine
Teaching Group <https://machineteaching.mpi-sws.org/> of Dr. Adish Singla at
the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).
Candidates for this position should have a master's degree in computational
linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Experience with machine
learning including deep learning is expected. The research will be conducted in
English.
Dates:
Application deadline: October 30, 2022
Start date: Spring 2023 (start date flexible)
The expected duration of the PhD is 3 years, the position is paid according to
75% TV-L E13, see also
https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix=12
<https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix=12>.
The job does not come with any teaching obligation. You can however choose to
participate in teaching activities (tutoring or co-teaching).
Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter
that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you
for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications (if applicable), your
MSc thesis (or a current draft), copies of academic degree certificates and
names of two potential references.
Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/home.html> is one of the
leading centres for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe,
and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. It is famous for its
interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and cognition.
The group is affiliated with both the Department of Computer Science
<https://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/informatik.html> and with the
Department of Language Science and Technology
<https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/>.
The Department of Language Science and Technology organizes about 100 research
staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics.
Both departments are part of the Saarland Informatics Campus
<https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en>, which brings together 800
researchers and 2000 students from 81 countries. We collaborate closely with
the university's Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for
Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home/>, the Max Planck Institute for
Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, and the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence <https://www.dfki.de/en/web/> (DFKI).
Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary
working language is English.
Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women are
strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given
preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications.
Applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg
([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>coli.uni-saarland.de <>).
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