Postdoc position in NLP, Saarland University

[Alexander Koller]

Hi all,

I am looking for a postdoc to join the Computational Linguistics research group at Saarland University. The position will be initially filled for two years and can be extended. It is paid on the German E13 100% payscale and available immediately. Preference will be given to applications received by June 4.

The postdoc position is ideal for developing your own research agenda in natural language processing / computational linguistics / planning and reasoning with LLMs. Have a look at the group website (see below) for our current research interests. I am particularly interested in expanding the group’s expertise in dialogue systems.

Saarland University is one of the top institutions for NLP research in Europe, with multiple NLP-related research groups (currently Vera Demberg, Michael Hahn, Dietrich Klakow, Mariya Toneva, and myself) and ~100 scientific staff in our department. We regularly publish together and with other colleagues, and I encourage postdocs to deepen these collaborations further.

I am an ACL Fellow, the speaker of the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models in Language, Vision, and Action”, and Associate Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Former postdocs from my group have gone on to faculty positions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Montréal.

Please see this website for further details: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/

Best,
Alexander Koller.