Overview
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship with the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University to work with Rob Voigt on projects in computational linguistics related to social understanding and multimodal processing of interactional data. Primary funding for the fellowship is provided by a National Institutes of Health grant on cross-linguistic analyses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in collaboration with Molly Losh in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern. This project will use contemporary large language model (LLM) technologies to develop models for the analysis of clinical interviews in English and Cantonese aimed at both predictive accuracy and greater linguistic understanding of ASD.
The fellow will also have the opportunity to develop their own research agenda and contribute to related projects in the lab on computational analysis of clinical interviews for psychosis, behavioral interventions for procedural justice from police body camera footage, and racial disparities in 911 emergency response calls. The fellow will also participate in instrumentation and experimental design in the Department’s Multimodal Interaction Lab, a recording space outfitted for multi-person audio recording, depth imaging, and physiological measurement of participants.
Company:
Northwest University
Qualifications:
Applications are welcomed broadly from applicants with backgrounds in linguistics, computer science, communication sciences, psychology, and related fields. Required qualifications include strong computational research skills including demonstrated experience with and publications related to contemporary LLMs. Preferred qualifications include experience working with multimodal data (text, audio, and/or video), cross-lingual or multilingual models, and social or interactional research questions.
Educational level:
Ph. D.
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