PhD: Grounded Language Models for Cultural Interpretation

Edusail Abroad; København; On-site; DKK 323,000 - 387,000; Full time

Job summary

Edusail Abroad is seeking a researcher to work on the CuRe project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. You will study how language models reason about culture and ambiguity, using literary texts as test cases and building datasets and benchmarks that link passages to their cultural context, evidence and expert readings.

The role involves experiments with literary scholars, primarily using modern Scandinavian literature; a research stay at McGill University is planned.

Qualifications

• A Danish master's degree or equivalent in NLP/CS/AI or related field.
• Strong Python and ML/NLP experience.

Responsibilities

• Research how language models reason about culture and ambiguity using literary texts.
• Develop datasets and benchmarks linking passages to cultural context and evidence readings.
• Collaborate with literary scholars and conduct related experiments.

Skills

Python

ML/NLP

Education

Master's degree in NLP or closely related field

Job description

Edusail Abroad is seeking a researcher to work on the CuRe project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. You will study how language models reason about culture and ambiguity, using literary texts as test cases and building datasets and benchmarks that link passages to their cultural context, evidence and expert readings.

The role involves experiments with literary scholars, primarily using modern Scandinavian literature; a research stay at McGill University is planned.