13 November: FYI -- PhD funding (Leiden, NL)
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The Faculty of Science and Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer
Science is looking for a PHD candidate in Natural Language Processing
/ Machine Translation (4-year fully funded position).
Key responsibilities:
This project aims at improving the state of the art in neural modeling
of language and translation with a focus on language structure. The
successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Arianna Bisazza and
will perform research and development in the following topics:
- understanding neural language models (e.g. what linguistic phenomena are they able – or unable – to capture?);
- syntax-aware language and translation models;
- neural machine translation for morphologically rich languages.
Selection criteria:
- MSc in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Science, or a related discipline;
- experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural
language processing;
- strong programming skills;
- ability to work independently, good communication skills, and a
passion for research;
- knowledge of neural network frameworks (Torch, PyTorch, Tensorflow,
Keras, etc.) is not necessary but highly desirable.
The research will take place at the Leiden Institute of Advanced
Computer Science (LIACS) in the Faculty of Science of Leiden
University. According to the most recent research visitation, this is
one of the foremost computer science departments of the Netherlands.
For more information and the application procedure, please visit this
page:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/17-453-phd-candidate-natural-language-processing-vacancies.html
Application deadline: December 10, 2017.
(applications received after the deadline may be considered, but this is not guaranteed)
Arianna Bisazza
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Assistant Professor
LIACS - Leiden University
http://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/~bisazzaa
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