Fall 2022 NLP Ph.D. positions at LanguageX Lab, Temple University, USA

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Wenpeng Yin

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Apr 15, 2022, 5:56:00 PM4/15/22

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Funded Ph.D. Vacancies: multiple openings (TA or RA scholarship) are available for Fall 2022. Potential research directions are as follows:

Language problems:

Semantics (e.g., better representations for natural text; semantic parsing, etc.)
Information extraction (e.g., knowledge acquisition about entities, events, etc.)
Language reasoning (textual entailment, question answering, commonsense, etc.)

Learning problems:

Learning from indirect supervision
Learning from instructions
Universal natural language processing
Incremental learning
Trustworthy learning

Cross-modal/disciplinary problems:

Language + vision
NLP in finance, security, bioinformatics, social science, etc.

Requirements for candidates:

Four-year undergraduate study and good GPA
TOEFL or IELTS score available
Research experience in NLP, IR, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Machine learning, etc.
Fluent oral English
Able to join in Fall 2022

How to apply: first send your CV and transcript to wenpe...@temple.edu; selected candidates will be invited to apply formally through the Temple website.

Lab Intro: LanguageX ("Language Explored") lab (www.wenpengyin.org/languagex-lab) was founded by Prof. Wenpeng Yin in Jan. 2022 at Temple University, aiming to advance the frontiers of language processing and understanding by studying some cutting-edge problems of languages, machine learning, etc.