Postdoc and PhD position in NLP/CL/CSS at GESIS (Cologne)
The newly established Data Science Methods team led by Gabriella Lapesa [2,3]
(Leibnitz Institute for Social Sciences GESIS, Cologne [1], Computational
Social Science department [4]) has two positions available from November 2023:
- one postdoctoral researcher (100%, 4 years, with possibility of tenure)
- one doctoral researcher (75%, 4 years). The PhD project will be pursued at
the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (where Gabriella Lapesa is a junior
professor in Responsible Data Science and Machine Learning).
** The team **
The Data Science Methods team will contribute to build and mantain the GESIS
infrastructure for Computational Social Science (CSS) research by developing
novel methods and making them available, documented, and accessible through the
GESIS services. The team will focus on fostering the interaction between
Natural Language Processing and Social Science by developing solutions that
allow for the integration of multiple information sources (e.g., different
textual sources for the same debate; socio-demographic features of speakers and
audiences; integration of textual and multimodal data) and address recent
challenges in NLP (modeling subjective phenomena; low-resource scenarios;
identifying and mitigating bias).
The team will tackle research questions at the interface between computational
argumentation and CSS, and target political communication from a very broad
perspective involving different types of actors (citizens, politicians,
parties) and discourse contexts (e.g., online discussions vs. newspapers). From
a methodological perspective, at the core of the team's research agenda will be
the “learning from disagreements” challenge, as machine learning approaches
which rely on gold standards which average annotators’ perspectives are
particularly unsuitable for the highly subjective phenomena tackled in CSS
research (e.g., persuasion in online discussions; harmful communication online;
polarization).
** How to apply **
The official job announcement with more details about the requirements/tasks
and the application procedure can be found at the following links:
Postdoctoral researcher (deadline: September 5th):
https://www.hidden-professionals.de//HPv3.Jobs/Gesis//stellenangebot/33073/1
Doctoral researcher (deadline: September 6th):
https://www.hidden-professionals.de//HPv3.Jobs/Gesis//stellenangebot/33084/1
[1] https://www.gesis.org/en/home
[2]
https://www.gesis.org/institut/mitarbeitendenverzeichnis/person/Gabriella.Lapesa
[3] https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/Lapesa/
[4] https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/departments/computational-social-science
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