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Eric Atwell
Oct 2, 2025, 3:14:37 AM (8 days ago) Oct 2
to ai4l, sam.he...@york.ac.uk, 'Salam Khalifa' via SIGARAB: Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Postdoc research in Arabic dialect NLP, 2 years starting ASAP, £37,694 - £42,254 per year, in York Uni (near Leeds) -
... they can consider applicants at or near end of PhD
Eric Atwell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language
Dear Eric
I hope this email finds you well.
I have a job opening currently being advertised which might be of interest to some of your current or former students and collaborators: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-associate-pdra-in-computational-linguistics-595465.html
For context, I have been working for a few years with my colleague George Brown on dialect identification for Arabic in forensic scenarios where 'gold standard' training data is required. We are now funded by the EU-funded CELIA project to explore the viability of our approach further.
The broad aims of CELIA are set out in more detail in this flyer. Our subproject contributes to exploration of whether a semi-automatic dialect recognition can be developed that falls within the constraints of the new EU AI Act, which imposes strict conditions on training data quality and traceability, and requires results and methods to be rigorously validated prior to deployment at any stage of casework for high risk applications. Our low-resource approach to the dialect recognition task requires comparatively small amounts of training data, and will be compared against other more 'data-hungry' approaches. The project is thus a proof of concept evaluation of the limits of our approach.
If you have any questions about the project please do get in touch, and if you are able to forward the advert to any potentially interested candidates I would be very grateful.
Best wishes, Sam
I hope this email finds you well.
I have a job opening currently being advertised which might be of interest to some of your current or former students and collaborators: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-associate-pdra-in-computational-linguistics-595465.html
For context, I have been working for a few years with my colleague George Brown on dialect identification for Arabic in forensic scenarios where 'gold standard' training data is required. We are now funded by the EU-funded CELIA project to explore the viability of our approach further.
The broad aims of CELIA are set out in more detail in this flyer. Our subproject contributes to exploration of whether a semi-automatic dialect recognition can be developed that falls within the constraints of the new EU AI Act, which imposes strict conditions on training data quality and traceability, and requires results and methods to be rigorously validated prior to deployment at any stage of casework for high risk applications. Our low-resource approach to the dialect recognition task requires comparatively small amounts of training data, and will be compared against other more 'data-hungry' approaches. The project is thus a proof of concept evaluation of the limits of our approach.
If you have any questions about the project please do get in touch, and if you are able to forward the advert to any potentially interested candidates I would be very grateful.
Best wishes, Sam
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I am on research leave until 31st January 2026 so may respond more slowly to some requests
Sam Hellmuth
Professor of Linguistics - Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
sam.he...@york.ac.uk V/C/208 Vanbrugh College C Block 01904 322657
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