20 October: FYI -- PhD & Postdoctoral funding (Germany)
Index of October 2017 | Index of year: 2017 | Full index
Interaction Technology [2] (CITEC) at Bielefeld University [3] is
seeking to fill two full-time positions as research fellow at level TV-L
13 (75%) of the German university payscale.
The group follows an interdisciplinary approach in developing new
methods to extract knowledge and semantics from data, in particular text
data, and formalize this knowledge using ontologies. As one of our
current foci, we are working on argumentation technology. In particular,
we are investigating how machines can be endowed with sufficient world
knowledge so that they can understand argumentative structures expressed
in natural language or generate coherent argumentative structures on
their own, for instance in the context of transparent recommender
systems based on interpretable machine learning. The group coordinates
the priority program "RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines" [4] that is
currently funded by the German Science Foundation (SPP 1999).
In the context of the RATIO Program, the following two positions will be
filled:
Position 1: suitable for a student looking to work towards a PhD or a
postdoc. The candidate will work on developing information extraction
algorithms that can extract information from biomedical publications in
order to represent the content of articles in a structured fashion as a
basis to synthesize arguments.
Position 2: is suitable for a postdoc or an advanced PhD student. The
candidate will work on developing annotated datasets and shared tasks to
support the benchmarking and evaluation of approaches developed in the
context of the RATIO program. Beyond that, candidates are expected to
pursue an own scientific agenda within the broader area of argumentation
technologies focusing in particular on argumentation mining and/or
synthesis.
Both positions require a Master degree or equivalent in computer
science, computational linguistics or information science.
In addition, the following skills are expected:
- Practical experience with machine learning methods, especially
supervised methods (deep learning, prob. graphical models, etc.),
applied to information extraction problems
- strong programming skills (preferably Python or Java)
- strong analytical skills
- willingness to work in an interdisciplinary research environment
- strong communicative skills and willingness to work in a team
The following assets will be considered a plus
- experience with argumentation technology
- experience with deep learning or probabilistic graphical models
- experience with information extraction from text, discourse analysis
or semantic parsing
- demonstrable ability to perform research work (e.g., by a first
scientific publication)
- knowledge of the German language.
A doctoral degree is not required. We actively encourage and support
working towards a doctoral degree as qualification goal.
The salary is based on Germany's academic salary level TV-L 13 (75%).
The entry level salary amounts to approx. 3.500 EUR per month (gross
income) and may increase depending on experience and other factors such
as marital or familial status.
The positions will be filled for three years.
Applications including a CV, university degree certificates and letter
of motivation should be sent to Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
(cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
) until November 15th at the
very latest. Indicate in the application the position that is of interest.
[1] http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/
[2] https://www.cit-ec.de/
[3] http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/
[4]
http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2016/info_wissenschaft_16_38/index.html
--
--
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
AG Semantic Computing
Exzellenzcluster für Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
Universität Bielefeld
Tel: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 6560
Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
Office CITEC-2.307
Universitätsstr. 21-25
33615 Bielefeld, NRW
Germany
Index of October 2017 | Index of year: 2017 | Full index