[2nd call] PhD position on Explainable NLP at the University of Copenhagen

[isabelle....@gmail.com]

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD position in Explainable Natural Language Processing with a start date of 1 September 2021. The application deadline is 9 May 2021.

Applications for the positions can be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153856  

The Natural Language Processing Section (https://di.ku.dk/english/research/nlp/) provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. The section came into effect on 1 January 2021 as a spin-off from the Machine Learning section, to which it still maintains close ties. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The successful candidates will join Isabelle Augenstein’s Natural Language Understanding research group (www.copenlu.com). The Natural Language Processing research environment at the University of Copenhagen is internationally leading, as e.g. evidenced by it being ranked 2nd in Europe according to CSRankings.

The PhD positions is offered in the context of a DFF Sapere Aude research leader fellowship held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media (EXPANSE)’. Sapere Aude is a program by the Independent Research Fund Denmark to support the most talented younger researchers in Denmark with funding for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.

More information about the project can also be found at: https://dff.dk/en/grants/research-leaders-2020/researchleader-14

Candidates should hold a MSc degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.

Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Associate Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, e-mail: augen...@di.ku.dk.

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Isabelle Augenstein, PhD
Associate Professor

Head of the NLP Section

Department of Computer Science

University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/