Reminder: Postdoc position on Explainable NLP at the University of Copenhagen

[Isabelle Augenstein]

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a postdoctoral position in Human-Centered Explainable Fact Checking with a start date of 1 September 2023. The application deadline is 24 May 2023.

Applications for the position can be submitted here: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18970&ProjectId=159168&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false

The Natural Language Processing Section 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. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The successful candidate 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 position is offered in the context of an ERC Starting Grant held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)’. ERC Starting Grant is a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council to support the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.

The project team will consist of the principle investigator, two PhD students and postdocs each, collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. The role of the postdoctoral researcher to be recruited in this call will be to research explainable fact checking with a focus on diverse user needs of end users in collaboration with the larger project team.

More information about the project can also be found at: http://www.copenlu.com/talk/2022_11_erc/

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

Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.

Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)

Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence

University of Copenhagen

Østervold Observatory

Øster Voldgade 3 

1350 Copenhagen 

augen...@di.ku.dk

http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/