Postdoctoral position in multilingual natural language processing (NLP)

Overview

The Department of Linguistics and Philology carries out research and offers education in language studies and philology with a focus on the languages and cultures of Asia, the classical languages of Europe, general linguistics, and computational linguistics. Education is offered at the basic, advanced, and doctoral level. Some seventy persons work at the department. Together with students and partners, they create a multicultural and intellectually vibrant environment.

Duties
The primary duties involve conducting independent research and preparing applications for external research funding in the field of multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Multilingual NLP refers to computational models that can process multiple natural languages, either for intrinsically multilingual tasks such as translation or cross-language information retrieval or as a way of pooling resources from multiple languages to perform any task such as question answering or summarization. Research on multilingual NLP today focuses mainly on large language models trained on multiple languages, and open research questions concern how to train the models efficiently and effectively, how to evaluate models reliably on a wide range of languages, and how to understand the processes through which linguistic information is encoded and shared across languages in the models. A special research interest is how multilingual models can be used to support languages with limited data resources. The role also includes contributing to the development of the department’s academic environment through collaboration with fellow researchers and lecturers. Teaching and supervision duties may account for up to 20% of a full-time position. The holder of the post is expected to spend most of his or her working hours at the department in Uppsala.

Company:

Uppsala University

Qualifications:

To be eligible for appointment as a postdoctoral researcher, applicants must hold a doctoral degree, or a foreign qualification deemed equivalent, in a subject relevant to the duties of the position. The degree must have been completed or be in its final stages at the time of application. The degree must have been obtained by the time the employment decision is made but must have been awarded no more than three years prior to the application deadline, unless special circumstances apply. Such circumstances may include leave due to illness, parental leave, elected positions within trade unions, or other similar situations. Documented expertise as a researcher in multilingual natural language processing is also required. Strong proficiency in English, both spoken and written, is an additional requirement. Furthermore, the applicant must possess the personal qualities necessary to carry out the duties of the position effectively.

Educational level:

Ph. D.

Tagged as: Academia, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Language Modeling, NLP, Ph. D., Sweden