CSIRO Data61 PhD scholarships - Natural Language Processing (deadline 3 Nov 2022)

[Wan, Stephen (Data61, Eveleigh)]

The Opportunity

We have a range of exciting opportunities available for PhD students who are passionate about science and engineering in the digital and data sciences.

• Enhance your PhD studies and kickstart your research career with a PhD studentship at CSIRO’s Data61, the dedicated data and digital arm of Australia’s national science agency.

• Work with talented people on projects aimed at solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. 

• Build your skills, apply your knowledge and deepen your skillset to design and solve complex research problems.

Life at CSIRO’s Data61

CSIRO’s Data61 is home to one of the largest collections of research and development expertise on artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in the world. Data61 is at the forefront of digital science and innovation. At CSIRO’s Data61 you can immerse yourself in an inclusive culture where a diversity of minds and views are welcomed.

 

Data61 PhD students work closely with their Data61 PhD supervisors and research teams on projects aligned to Data61’s research goals. Students are enrolled in a PhD at an Australian university and university supervisors also provide supervision and support throughout the program.

The PhD Topic: Using AI and NLP to assist in scientific and technical document creation

Government and industry are increasingly interested in AI-assistance in document preparation. Recent methods in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) have shown the tremendous potential of neural network language models to capture language use and even some knowledge/societal norms. The PhD student will work with open domain data sets to explore key NLP problems in the context of this NLP application space, such as: (1) neural language modelling, (2) information extraction for scientific documents, (3) discourse modelling, (4) improving language models with domain knowledge, and (5) data augmentation and data set preparation for NLP in low-resource scenarios. Applicants should have a research background in one or more of the following areas: linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning.

The scholarship 

Successful candidates receive a scholarship package including:

• A stipend at the Research Training Program (RTP) base rate (2022 rate $29,863 pa) and/or a Top-up scholarship of $10,000 per annum.

• Benefits of up to $5,000 learning and development funding over the term of the scholarship with the use of these funds being at the discretion of CSIRO and the student's university supervisor.

• Access to national research infrastructure, tools and resources to further enhance your research capability.

• A maximum scholarship term of 3.5 years (less any time lapsed in a PhD if you are already enrolled and have commenced studies at the university).

To be eligible you must have:

• A first-class honours (H1) Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in the relevant research area (completed or near completion);

• Applied for admission to a PhD program at an Australian university or be a student enrolled in their first 12 months of study in a PhD program at an Australian University;

• A university supervisor who confirms they are willing and able to supervise you;

• Not already hold a PhD degree.  

Applications Close

03 November 2022,11.00pm AEDT

To apply:  https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Various-Data61-PhD-scholarships/932023710/.  In your application, describe how your PhD project will tackle some or all of the PhD topic described above (Project Description 13)

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