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Summer internship in language technology, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna

The Language and Interaction Technologies Group of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) in Vienna is seeking a student intern for programming tasks in the field of natural language processing.

The successful applicant will be responsible for helping to program the front and back ends of an interactive, graphical tool for computer-assisted translation of creative language. The work will be carried out in close cooperation with the project leader, within the framework of the FWF-funded project Computational Pun-derstanding: https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

The position is a fixed-term one-month contract for 20 hours per week, with the possibility to extend the contract for additional months, subject to project requirements and satisfactory job performance. Remuneration will be in accordance with the standard student assistant salary for FWF projects: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/

Requirements: Applicants must demonstrate:

  • Good knowledge of English and German
  • Good programming skills in Java (or less preferably in Python)
  • Permission to work in Austria
  • Interest in linguistics, language technology, and/or natural language processing

Previous experience in developing graphical user interfaces is a big plus.

Application procedure: Applications, including a cover letter and a CV detailing previous academic work and programming experience, should be submitted via e-mail to Tristan Miller: tristan.miller@ofai.at

Applications should be submitted by 15 June 2020. Applications received after this deadline will be considered if the position remains unfilled.

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in NLP in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City

A postdoctoral fellow position is available in the Dr. Yifan Peng's laboratory in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, starting Fall 2020. Our laboratory is primarily interested in developing and applying computational approaches to biomedical text data and medical images. Our research has focused on biomedical text mining (e.g., BlueBERT, NegBio, LitVar), medical image analysis (e.g., NIH Chest X-ray, DeepSeeNet), and their combination (e.g., TieNet). The successful applicant will work on a NIH-funded project. The goal of this research project is to use radiology-specific ontology, NLP, image analysis, and DL to construct a radiology-specific knowledge graph. For more details, please see the announcements here.

Qualifications: Applicants must have training with a strong emphasis on text mining and/or image analysis. Preference will be given to individuals with expertise in big data/modeling and those with a strong interest in healthcare or life sciences. The position is open to graduating Ph.D., M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. students in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Health informatics, or a related discipline. Current postdoctoral fellows with less than three years of postdoctoral experience are also welcomed.

Appointments are initially for two years. The positions can be extended for one or two additional years at the end of the first year based on performance. Stipends are commensurate with research experience and education.

To apply: Please submit CV and one-page research statement to Dr. Yifan Peng (pengyifan.mail@gmail.com). Shortlisted candidates will have an online interview.

Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medicine is located in Manhattan, New York, immediately adjacent to the Sloan Kettering Institute and Rockefeller University, and as such offers the exposure to a dynamic and vibrant scientific environment that provides unique and unparalleled research training opportunities, including seminars given by scientific leaders from throughout the world, exposure to diverse research programs, highly sophisticated core facilities, grant writing workshops, career exploration events and professional development workshops. Weill Cornell Medicine provides subsidized housing for eligible Postdocs.

Weill Cornell Medicine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women and minorities.

Multiple PhD positions in deep learning for natural language understanding at Idiap, Switzerland

  • Employer: Idiap Research Institute, Natural Language Understanding group
  • Title: Multiple PhD positions
  • Speciality: Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning
  • Location: Martigny, Switzerland
  • Deadline: 31 May, 2020
  • Date posted: 8 May, 2020
  • Contact: James Henderson (james.henderson@idiap.ch)

Multiple PhD positions

The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for multiple PhD student positions in the area of deep learning methods for natural language understanding, to work with Dr. James Henderson in the Natural Language Understanding group. For more details, please see the announcements here and here.

Idiap offers competitive salaries, a beautiful location, and a world-class AI research community. PhD students are registered at EPFL, Switzerland. Some of these positions are to work on the Swiss center of excellence (NCCR) project: Evolving Language.

The ideal candidate should hold a Master-level degree in computer science, computational linguistics or related fields. She or he should have a background in natural language processing or machine learning, and should have strong programming skills.

All questions related to these positions should be sent to Dr. James Henderson (james.henderson@idiap.ch).

Please apply online either here or here.


Postdoctoral position in deep learning for natural language understanding at Idiap, Switzerland

  • Employer: Idiap Research Institute, Natural Language Understanding group
  • Title: Postdoctoral researcher
  • Speciality: Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning
  • Location: Martigny, Switzerland
  • Deadline: 31 May, 2020
  • Date posted: 8 May, 2020
  • Contact: James Henderson (james.henderson@idiap.ch)

Postdoctoral position

The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for a Postdoctoral researcher position in the area of deep learning methods for natural language understanding, to work with Dr. James Henderson in the Natural Language Understanding group. This position is to work on the Swiss center of excellence (NCCR) project: Evolving Language. For more details, please see the announcement here.

The ideal candidate should hold a PhD degree in computer science, computational linguistics or related fields. She or he should have a background in natural language processing and machine learning, and should have strong programming skills.

All questions related to these positions should be sent to Dr. James Henderson (james.henderson@idiap.ch).

Please apply online here.


Postdoc in NLP, ITU Copenhagen (Denmark)

  • Employer: Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Specialty: Natural language processing / Machine learning
  • Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Deadline: 12 June 2020, at 23:59 CEST.
  • Contact: Leon Derczynski
  • Date posted: May 1st 2020
  • Start Date: August 1st 2020

The IT University of Copenhagen invites applications for a postdoc position to research cross-domain and cross-language transfer methods for natural language processing. The ClinRead project at ITU Copenhagen, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, needs a full time post-doctoral researcher in natural language processing starting 1 August 2020 latest. The position is funded for 12 months, with possible extension. 100% of the time is allocated to research activities. The project application domain is information extract over patient notes in clinical journals. This provides the scope to do basic research in transfer learning for NLP. More details are here: https://nlp.itu.dk/2019/12/13/clinread-understanding-clinical-notes-for-new-languages-novo-nordisk-foundation-grant-for-leon-derczynski/ The project is led by Dr. Leon Strømberg-Derczynski, who is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at ITU.

Candidate

  • You must either: (a) hold a PhD in a discipline related to natural language processing; or (b) have an expected PhD award date (with evidence) before 31 January 2021, with all PhD documents submitted before 31 October 2020.
  • You need to have published academic publications in natural language processing.
  • Excellent written and spoken English language skills are required.
  • Applications from both industry and academia are welcome.
  • The project works with Danish data, so excellent proficiency in Danish is beneficial.

Working in Copenhagen Copenhagen has a strong educational system, a rich cultural life, universal healthcare, good childcare, and well-functioning infrastructure. Living and working in Copenhagen will be a good experience for you and your family.

General information The IT University of Copenhagen is a teaching and research university concerned with information technology (IT) and the opportunities it offers. The IT University has more than 160 full-time academics. Research and teaching in information technology spans all academic activities which involve computers including computer science, information and media sciences, humanities and social sciences, business impact and the commercialization of IT. Questions about the positions can be directed to Assistant Professor, Leon Strømberg-Derczynski, IT University of Copenhagen, leod@itu.dk.

Salary Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).

Application procedure You can only apply for this position through our e-recruitment system. Apply by pushing the button "Apply for position" in the job announcement on our website: http://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Vacancies. The IT University uses tests in connection with the recruitment process.

  • Application deadline: 12 June 2020, at 23:59 CEST.

The IT University invites all qualified researchers regardless of age, gender, religious affiliation or ethnic background to apply for the positions.

Apply here: [1]

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Memphis (USA)

  • Employer: Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, USA
  • Specialty: Cognitive Science with an emphasis on language, learning, and/or AI
  • Location: Memphis, TN USA
  • Deadline: open until filled
  • Contact: Andrew Olney
  • Date posted: March 5th 2020
  • Start Date: May 1st 2020

The Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher. The 12-month position will start in May 2020 pending the availability of funds. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in hand by May 2020 and must have a compelling record of research success and potential.

The successful candidate will complement interdisciplinary research at the IIS in one or more of the following focus areas: learning, language, and artificial intelligence. Candidates are encouraged to work on their own research agenda but may join existing projects. Mentoring will be provided based on research focus. Candidates from minority and underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please submit a letter detailing current research interests, a curriculum vitae, three representative publications, and email addresses for three professional references on-line at https://workforum.memphis.edu. For all other inquiries please contact Andrew Olney, aolney@memphis.edu. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2020.

A background check will be required for employment. The University of Memphis is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action employer committed to achieving a diverse workforce.

Two Research Fellows in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Japan

  • Employer: Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Japan and the National Centre for Text Mining, UK
  • Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Discovery
  • Location: Tokyo, Japan
  • Deadline: 31st March 2020
  • Contact: Sophia Ananiadou
  • Date posted: March 4th 2020
  • Start Date: ASAP

The Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, Japan and the National Centre for Text Mining (UK) invite applications for two Research Fellows in Natural Language Processing. This is an exciting opportunity for two ambitious researchers to work on a major interdisciplinary project on Cancer, funded by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. The posts aim to promote novel research into information extraction and knowledge discovery for immunotherapy for cancer mechanisms. The two fellows will work together and will also collaborate with NLP researchers both in Japan and in the UK, as well as with data scientists and medical practitioners in Japan.

Although the posts will be located in AIRC, Japan (https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/en/intro/), the NLP research will be carried out in collaboration with the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) (http://www.nactem.ac.uk), Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. The successful candidates will benefit from the vibrant research environments of both AIRC and NaCTeM.

Essential skills: candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science with an emphasis on Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning. They should have excellent knowledge of neural network architectures for NLP, information extraction (relation and event extraction) at scale, unsupervised learning or distant learning. Good programming skills (Perl, Python or other scripting languages) are highly desirable. Candidates should have a proven publication track record in high quality venues (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, NAACL, etc.). Fluency in English is a must. They should have good written skills in English, be able to communicate with the partners of the consortium and work independently to meet deadlines.

Applicants should send a detailed CV, including a list of publications, a covering letter indicating their expertise for this project and the names of three referees, to Professor Sophia Ananiadou (sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk).

Interviews will be held during the first week of April 2020, with the aim of starting the project as soon as possible.

Salary: ~6M yen to 9M yen per year (£43K to £65K), depending on experience.

Duration of posts: 3 years.

Postdoc in Computational Neurolinguistics, University of Georgia (USA)

  • Employer: Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, Athens GA USA
  • Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Human Neuroimaging, Cognitive Science
  • Location: Athens, Georgia USA
  • Deadline: open until filled
  • Contact: John Hale
  • Date posted: March 2nd 2020
  • Start Date: August 1st 2020

Duties include using tools and techniques from computational linguistics to analyze neural signals across languages. The successful candidate will work closely with partners in Michigan, at Neurospin, INRIA and the MPI. Apply at https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/83958

Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP for healthcare, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - imec, Belgium

  • Employer: Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - imec, Belgium
  • Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP for healthcare
  • Specialty: NLP, Machine Learning
  • Location: Brussels
  • Deadline: March 29, 2020
  • Date posted: February 25, 2020
  • Contact: ndeligia@etrovub.be

The department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and imec in Belgium offers a postdoctoral position in NLP and machine learning.

Description of the project:
The successful candidate will work within the frame of a project, funded by the Brussels government, on NLP for healthcare. The project will acquire data from one of the largest hospitals in Brussels (UZ Brussels) and its aim is to perform automated clinical coding and nosocomial outbreak detection. To do so, two important aspects will be investigated: (i) multilingual NLP techniques and (ii) interpretation of NLP models to address tasks such as extreme classification and real-time prediction.

Responsibilities:
• Design and implement innovative algorithms within the aforementioned project,
• Publish the results at top-tier venues in NLP (e.g., ACL) and machine learning (e.g., ICLR), and
• Supervise junior researchers and support in teaching.

Profile and requirements:
• A PhD degree focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing or related;
• An excellent academic record with publications in top-tier scientific journals (e.g., TACL) and conference proceedings (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, AAAI);
• Proven programming experience (e.g., Python, C++);
• Fluency in state-of-the-art machine learning frameworks (e.g., Tensorflow, PyTorch);
• Fluency in English and excellent scientific writing and presentation skills;
• Ability and will to support teaching and to (co-)supervise bachelor, master and PhD students.

What we offer:
• A two-year position which upon positive evaluation can be further extended;
• A competitive salary (including holiday allowance) and benefits,
• An international scientific environment driven by excellence in fundamental research,
• Opportunities for travelling to conferences and research visits to international partner research groups (e.g., at Duke University, UCL)

How to apply:
Interested candidates should send: • a detailed curriculum vitae,
• a motivation letter related to the position’s profile,
• electronic copies of three key scientific publications, and
• the names of two potential referees

to the following contact person: Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Deligiannis via email at ndeligia@etrovub.be by March 29, 2020.

About the team:
The position is within Big Data team at the Department of Electronics and Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. The team is also affiliated with imec, an international R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies.


Permanent research position in language technology at the Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway


We have a vacancy for a permanent research position in language technology at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) in Oslo, Norway. We seek candidates with broad expertise in the field of NLP and the ability to work on different types of R&D projects. The position will be associated with the SAMBA research department, which currently has 45 researchers.

The researcher will be expected to participate in several research projects. In particular, we have recently initiated a large interdisciplinary research project on anonymization of textual data in collaboration with legal scholars, data security experts and researchers in health informatics. We also conduct research on spoken dialogue systems, human-robot interaction, multilingual language resources and information extraction on large amounts of texts. We also work closely with the University of Oslo, and many of our research projects are carried out in collaboration with various research groups in Norway and internationally.

You must be interested in applied research in language technology and machine learning. The applicant must hold a doctorate in language technology or computational linguistics, or a master degree combined several years of research experience. In addition, you must have good programming skills and the ability to work both independently and in teams.

Applicants must be fluent in English, both verbally and in writing. Knowledge of Norwegian or another Scandinavian language is an advantage, as several of our research projects focus on Norwegian text data. Experience in securing funding for R&D projects is also appreciated.

For more information, please visit the application website (in Norwegian).

We offer:
We offer a 100% permanent position, good salary conditions, pension and insurance schemes, flexible working hours, 5 weeks of holiday in addition to paid leave during Christmas and Easter, and our own staff canteen. Good training and development opportunities in an inspiring work environment together with colleagues in language technology, machine learning, statistical modelling and image analysis.

The Norwegian Computing Center is located in Kristen Nygaard's house at the Research Park at Blindern in Oslo. Negotiable starting date. We look forward to hearing from you.

About us:
Norsk Regnesentral (NR) is an independent, non-profit and non-profit private foundation that conducts contract research for business and public enterprises both in Norway and internationally. Our core research areas are statistical modelling, machine learning, artificial intelligence and ICT. Our clients are business and public administration, the EU and the Research Council of Norway.

The institute has 85 employees and is one of Europe's largest research institute within applied statistics. Major applications are petroleum, finance and insurance, earth observation, climate and environment, fisheries and aquaculture, health, image analysis and artificial intelligence. Research in ICT include cybersecurity, smart sensors, e-inclusion and universal design.


PostDoc or PhD in Secure and Robust Natural Language Processing, UKP Lab, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt

UKP Lab of the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany has an opening for an

Associate Research Scientist "Secure and Robust NLP" (PostDoc- or PhD-level; for an initial term until the end of 2021)

as part of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE [1]. We are part of the research mission "SenPAI-Security and Privacy in AI". While AI becomes more common as a tool for various security applications where data must be analysed, clustered or attributed, the security of the applied AI algorithms is often limited. Various research results in the past years show shortcomings of trained neural nets (NN) like the lack of robustness against targeted attacks. The focus of our contribution to SenPAI is in (i) An automatic penetration testing system for NLP: A modular toolkit with common strategies to attack NLP models. This toolkit allows the wide-spread evaluation of state-of-the-art and in-production NLP systems; and (ii) Robust training objectives for NLP systems: State-of-the-art learning systems are equipped with the automatic attack toolkit in order to generate more robust NLP models. The goal is to have NLP models which are robust against new, unseen attacks and which require a higher effort to bypass them.

For this project, we are looking to hire a PostDoc or a PhD student with both a strong background in Natural Language Processing and a strong interest to contribute to applied security. We plan to cooperate with Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt and several other machine learning labs involved in SenPAI. The UKP Lab is a high-profile research group comprising over thirty team members who work on various aspects of data-driven NLP and machine learning. Their novel applications in various domains extend to mining scientific literature or social media, security and AI for Social Good in general.

We ask for applications from candidates in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing or Text Mining and strong interest in secure and robust NLP. Prior experience with neural network architectures, security-related applications and other relevant areas of NLP and Machine Learning is a plus. Demonstrable engagement in open source projects, strong programming skills and communication skills in English are highly appreciated.

UKP Lab (cf. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) provides a highly agile, diverse and supportive research environment. The lab has a wide cooperation network with both leading academic and industrial professionals in NLP and Machine Learning. The Department of Computer Science of the TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of the German universities. Its unique profile around AI (cf. https://www.ai-da.tu-darmstadt.de) and information processing (cf. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aiphes) emphasizes NLP, machine learning, and and their great potential for the industry and society at large. UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style and close interaction of all team members. The selected candidates enjoy numerous opportunities for professional growth, leading to successful faculty careers or exciting industrial employments.

To apply, please provide a detailed CV, a motivation letter and an outline of previous work or research experience along with the names of up to three referees (if available). Applications from women are particularly encouraged. All other things being equal, candidates with disabilities will be given preference. Please submit your application via the following form by February 10th, 2020: https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment. Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered until the position is filled.

[1] https://www.athene-center.de/en/


PhD or PostDoc in Natural Language Processing for the Social Good, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt

The Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt, Germany has an opening for an

Associate Research Scientist "NLP for the Social Good" (PhD- or PostDoc-level; for an initial term until the end of 2022)

We are building a research profile in "Content Analytics for the Social Good" in close collaboration with multiple Machine Learning and Data Science labs as well as Social Science labs at the universities of Frankfurt and Mainz. To stregthen this profile, we are looking to hire a PhD student or a PostDoc with both a strong background in Natural Language Processing and a genuine interest to contribute to the Social Good, i.e. conduct research with decidedly positive impact on our society. Examples include privacy-aware NLP and large-scale text analysis to promote and enhance corporate social responsibility, public-policy making, or user empowerment under uncertainty. We specifically envisage cooperations with law and economics researchers and cutting-edge NLP research in low-resource scenarios.

The position is situated in a larger research environment of the UKP Lab as a high-profile research group comprising over thirty team members who work on various aspects of data-driven NLP and machine learning. Their novel applications in various domains extend to mining scientific literature or social media, and AI for Social Good in general. We have recently hired several postdocs to build a focus on NLP for the Social Good. The immediate supervision for the advertised position will be provided by Dr. Ivan Habernal. The strategic long-term advice will be given by Prof. Iryna Gurevych.

We ask for applications from candidates in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing or Text Mining and strong interdisciplinary interest in Computational Social Science. Prior experience with neural network architectures, corpus development and other relevant areas of NLP and Machine Learning is a plus. Demonstrable engagement in open source projects, strong programming skills and communication skills in English are highly appreciated.

UKP Lab (cf. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) provides a highly agile, diverse and supportive research environment. The lab has a wide cooperation network with both leading academic and industrial professionals in NLP and Machine Learning. The Department of Computer Science of the TU Darmstadt is regularly ranked among the top ones in respective rankings of the German universities. Its unique profile around AI (cf. https://www.ai-da.tu-darmstadt.de) and information processing (cf. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aiphes) emphasizes NLP, machine learning, and and their great potential for the industry and society at large. UKP Lab is committed to cutting-edge research, publishing in top-tier venues, cooperative work style and close interaction of all team members. The selected candidates enjoy numerous opportunities for professional growth, leading to successful faculty careers or exciting industrial employments.

To apply, please provide a detailed CV, a motivation letter and an outline of previous work or research experience along with the names of up to three referees (if available). Applications from women are particularly encouraged. All other things being equal, candidates with disabilities will be given preference. Please submit your application via the following form by February 10th, 2020: https://public.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment. Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered until the position is filled.

NLP Research Internship at Adobe Research, San Jose, California

  • Employer: Adobe Research
  • Title: Research Scientist Intern
  • Speciality: NLP, search, dialog, joint NLP+computer vision
  • Location: San Jose, CA, USA
  • Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
  • Date posted: January 7, 2020
  • Contact: Franck Dernoncourt <franck.dernoncourt@adobe.com>

We are looking for PhD students with background in NLP, search, dialog, or joint NLP+computer vision for a spring/summer/autumn, ~13-week research internship (starting date and length are flexible). We strongly encourage our interns to publish their work to NLP/ML conferences/journals, and as a result we prefer candidates with a strong publication record. International PhD students are welcome to apply. Highly competitive salary. To apply, please send me an email with your CV (e.g., PDF or LinkedIn) as well as the list of your publications (e.g., PDF or link to your Google Scholar profile). You can view our NLP publications on https://research.adobe.com/publications/?a=natural-language-processing&y

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