PhD position in NLP

NLP PEOPLE; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious academic institution is inviting applications for a three-year PhD studentship focused on lexical acquisition across languages. The successful candidate will develop computational frameworks for NLP applications, requiring strong programming skills and a Master's degree in a relevant field. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on diverse languages and contribute to advanced NLP research.

Qualifications

• Good Master’s degree (equivalent of first-class distinction) needed.
• Strong programming skills are essential.
• Previous experience in NLP and/or machine learning is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop a computational framework for learning and transferring lexical information.
• Work on a project covering various languages and domains.
• Contribute to NLP applications such as machine translation.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Experience in NLP

Experience in machine learning

Education

Master’s degree in computational linguistics or related discipline

Job description

Overview

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship on the project LEXICAL: Lexical Acquisition across Languages. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of a Consolidator Grant awarded to Anna Korhonen. The aim is to develop a novel computational framework for learning and transferring lexical information across languages without the need for parallel resources. The project will cover a variety of typologically diverse languages and language domains and will demonstrate the usefulness for NLP applications such as machine translation.

Organization

University of Cambridge

Qualifications

The successful applicant will have a good Master’s degree (equivalent of first-class distinction) in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related discipline, completed by 30 September 2015. He/she will have strong programming skills and previous experience in NLP and/or machine learning. Previous experience with joint learning and inference may be considered an advantage.

Specific requirements

The post is for 3 years starting from 1 October, 2015.

Educational level

Master Degree

How to apply

Please mention NLP People as a source when applying

http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7109/

Tags

Academia, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Master Degree, NLP, Tagging, United Kingdom