PhD position at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

[Aldo Lipani]

At the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, TU Wien, Austria,
we are looking for a PhD candidate with background in Computer Science
and interest in NLP. The main research subject is on Semi-automatic
labeling of argumentative zones in scientific articles using
reinforcement learning.

University: TU Wien (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
Location: Vienna, Austria
Position: PhD student

The PhD research focuses on (but is not limited to):
- establishing the scientific summarisation components using
Argumentative Zoning (AZ)
- creating an enlarged test collection for AZ, using small existing test
collection
- increasing the test collection to include different scientific fields,
by deploying deep learning methods
- designing a series of annotation tasks as e-Learning events for
students who will label the argumentative zones and compare
argumentative zones between related scientific articles
- investigating reinforcement learning methods for algorithms in
argumentative zoning

Requirements:
- Computer Science  MSc.
- Master of Arts is admissible only with with Language Technology or
Computational Linguistics as the main field of study
- NLP basic knowledge or more
- Annotation experience / Corpus design
- Good to know: Distributional Semantics
- Good communication and presentation skills in English

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Funding for the PhD research is secured through a currently running
research project: "Artificial Research in Science: Efficient Scientific
Publication Mining" (AR-Science). In this project we aim to develop a
novel and innovative platform, which automatically handles scientific
information needs and presents the information to the users according to
their requests. For the next few years, together with TU Wien Bibliothek
and Artificial Researcher IT GmbH, we will develop a prototype, which
provides the end-users with a unified platform that supports their
complete literature research activity. AR-Science will reduce users
effort in terms of time spent on searching and reviewing articles.
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Applications (CV and short cover letter) should be sent by September 20
2019, to florin...@tuwien.ac.at
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