NLP Research Fellow: Sign Language Translation & AI

RFCSR; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science invites applications for a Research Fellow in NLP for Sign Language Translation. You will lead NLP and language modelling work to enable advanced BSL-to-text translation using radar-derived motion data.

You will collaborate with international partners, work with annotated datasets, develop transformers-based models, and contribute to publications and open-source datasets.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in CS/NLP/AI or related field.
• Strong foundation in NLP and ML methods.
• Commitment to research that addresses real-world communication barriers.

Responsibilities

• Develop NLP models tailored to BSL-aware units.
• Work with annotated datasets and radar-derived data.
• Explore transformer-based sequence modelling approaches.
• Contribute to publications, open-source datasets and presentations.

Skills

Natural Language Processing

Language Modelling

Python programming

Deep learning frameworks

Teamwork

Multimodal data experience

Education

PhD or equivalent

Job description

The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science invites applications for a Research Fellow in NLP for Sign Language Translation. You will lead NLP and language modelling work to enable advanced BSL-to-text translation using radar-derived motion data.

You will collaborate with international partners, work with annotated datasets, develop transformers-based models, and contribute to publications and open-source datasets.