Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, Two years
Extent: 100 %
Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Johanneberg - Göteborg
First day of employment: As agreed
Reference number: PER 2013/131
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology announces two PhD positions within the research project Reliable Multilingual Digital Communication: Methods and Applications (REMU) funded by the Swedish Research Council(Vetenskapsrådet).
The CSE Department provides a strong, international, and dynamic research environment with about 70 faculty and 70 PhD students from about 30 countries. The Postdoc positions are located jointly in two research groups: Language Technology and Formal Methods. They will work together with the PhD studentsand senior researchers involved in the REMU project. The seniors directlyinvolved with REMU are professors Aarne Ranta (REMU principal scientist), KoenClaessen, and Gerardo Schneider.
Computer science: Language Technology and Formal Methods
REMU builds on the unique joint competence of the Department in the area of language technology, formal methods, and functional programming. It objective is to develop methods for high-quality machine translation, formal verification, reasoning, and information retrieval of mission-critical documents such as contracts and legal texts. Building on formalized interlingual representations (abstract syntax), the REMU project will target applications in several parallel languages. The research problems range from fundamental language-theoretic questions (e.g. ambiguity detection) to practical system building (e.g. an editor by which end users can build multilingual web pages). In the mid ground, the project has topics in grammar engineering, theorem proving, software testing methodology, and logical modelling. REMU builds on tools previously developed at the department and also develops them further (the Grammatical Framework GF, the software testing tool QuickCheck, the theorem prover Equinox, the contract tool AnaCon.)
The Postdoc positions are open for persons with a Doctoral degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related field. Their research topics will be selected on an indivial basis from the tasks defined in REMU's research plan.
The positions are for two years, with a start between 1 June and 31 December 2013, as agreed with the selected holders of the positions. There is a possibility of extension due to specific reasons. The Postdocs may work up to 20% of their time in teaching and other departmental duties, according to individual agreement. Postdocs get a regular full-time salary and social security.
To qualify as a postdoctoral fellow, the applicant must have completed a Swedish doctoral degree or must have a foreign degree corresponding to a Swedish doctoral degree. Preference will be given to candidates who have been awarded the degree no more than three years before the application deadline and who have not held a post-doc position within the same or similar subject area at the University of Gothenburg for more than one year. Applicants with a degree obtained earlier than the stipulated three years may be preferred if special reasons exists. Special reasons in this context include, but are not limited to, leave due to illness and parental leave.
An applicant to the positions must have graduated with a Doctoral degree before the start of the Postdoctoral employment, but preferably not earlier than April 2010. At the time of application, it is enough to have a realistic plan leading to a degree so that the work can start before the end of 2013.
The following qualifications, if reported as a part of the application, will be used for assessing the candidates:
- PhD thesis (at least a draft), in an area related to REMU
- publications, in an area related to REMU
- programming skills, in particular, functional programming
- mathematical skills, in particular, formal languages, logic, statistics
- extensive language skills, and/or knowledge of linguistics
- work experience from demanding software projects
- recommendations, from the PhD supervisor and/or examiner and/or other persons in areas related REMU
A complete application for this position should include:
A first page containing your name and a list of all documents that have been attached
-CV
-Attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents, English language test, e.g. TOEFL score
-Letters of recommendation from academic institutions and/or previous employers
-Details of your specific qualifications for the position maximum two A4 page
-List of publications
-Relevant work including Phd thesis (or a draft of a thesis under preparation). and publications
NB. The online job application portal is optimized for Firefox 3.0.8 and Internet Explorer 8.0 (or later versions).
Aarne Ranta, Professor
+46 31 772 1082
aarne@chalmers.se
Koen Claessen, Deputy head of department
+46 31 772 5424
koen@chalmers.se
Gerardo Schneider, Associate professor
+46 31 772 6073
gersch@chalmers.se
www.chalmers.se/cse
OFR/S: Stefan Schedin
+46 31 786 4770
stefan.schedin@gu.se
SACO: Martin Selander
+46 31 786 1987
martin.selander@gu.se
SEKO: Lennart Olsson
+46 31 786 1173
lennart.olsson@seko.fack.gu.se
2013-05-13
Please apply online.
Complementary documents, such as publications/books should be sent to the following address:
Ann-Britt Karlsson
IT Faculty
Lindholmen
SE 412 96 Göteborg
Reference number should be clearly stated when sending complementary documents.
The University of Gothenburg promotes equal opportunities, equality and diversity.
Salary is determined on an individual basis.
Applications will be destroyed or returned (upon request) two years after the decision of employment has become final. Applications from the employed and from those who appeal the decision will not be returned.
Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, Fixed-term employment, four years full-time PhD studies
Extent: 100 %
Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Johanneberg - Göteborg
First day of employment: As agreed
Reference number: UR 2013/259
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology announces two PhD positions within the research project Reliable Multilingual Digital Communication: Methods and Applications (REMU) funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
The CSE Department provides a strong, international, and dynamic research environment with about 70 faculty and 70 PhD students from about 30 countries. The PhD positions are located jointly in two research groups: Language Technology and Formal Methods. The PhD supervisors will be professors from these groups: Aarne Ranta (REMU principal scientist), Koen Claessen, and Gerardo Schneider.
REMU builds on the unique joint competence of the Department in the areas of language technology, formal methods, and functional programming. Its objective is to develop methods for high-quality machinetranslation, formal verification, reasoning, and information retrieval of missioncritical documents such as contracts and legal texts. Building on formalized interlingual representations (abstract syntax), the REMU project will targetapplications in several parallel languages. The research problems range from fundamental language-theoretic questions (e.g. ambiguity detection) to practicalsystem building (e.g. an editor by which end users can build multilingual webpages). In the mid ground, the project has topics in grammar engineering, theorem proving, software testing methodology, and logical modelling. The PhD student positions are open for students with a Masters degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related field. Their PhD topics will be selected on an individual basis from the task defined in REMU's research plan.
The positions are for five years, with a start between 1 June and 31 December 2013, as agreed with the selected holders of the positions. The PhD students will work 20% of their time in teaching and other departmental duties. PhD students get a regular full-time salary, sufficient for a small family to live in Gothenburg.
The qualifications for education on a doctoral level are: degree in advanced level, at least 240 university points, of which 60 are on an advanced level, or in an other way acquired similar knowledge.
An applicant to the positions must have graduated with a Masters degree before the start of the PhD studies. But at the time of application, it is enough to have a realistic plan leading to a degree so that the studies can start before the end of 2013.
The following qualifications, if reported as a part of the application, will be used for assessing the candidates:
- Masters thesis (at least a draft), in an area related to REMU
- publications, in an area related to REMU
- programming skills, in particular, functional programming
- mathematical skills, in particular, formal languages, logic, statistics
- extensive language skills, and/or knowledge of linguistics
- work experience from demanding software projects
- recommendations, from the Masters supervisor and/or other persons in areas related REMU
As a holder of the position you must first be accepted to postgraduate level. The candidates will be selected from among the ability to benefit from the research education. In addition to pursuing its own research studies it may be required to perform duties relating to education, research and administration, according to the specific regulations.
Following documents should be included in the applications:
-CV
- attested copies of education certificates, including grade reports and other documents, English language test, e.g. TOEFL score,
- letters of recommendation from academic institutions and/or previous employers.
- details of your specific qualifications for the position
- list of publications
- relevant work such as bachelor's or master's thesis (or outline of a thesis under preparation).
NB. The online job application portal is optimized for Firefox 3.0.8 and Internet Explorer 8.0 (or later versions).
Aarne Ranta, Professor
+46 31 772 1082
aarne@chalmers.se
Koen Claessen, Assistant head of department
+46 31 772 5424
koen@chalmers.se
Gerardo Schneider, Associate professor
+46 31 772 6073
gersch@chalmers.se
www.chalmers.se/cse
OFR/S: Stefan Schedin
031-786 4770
stefan.schedin@gu.se
SACO: Martin Selander
031-786 1987
martin.selander@gu.se
SEKO: Lennart Olsson
031-786 1173
lennart.olsson@seko.fack.gu.se
2013-05-13
Please apply online.
Complementary documents, such as publications/books should be sent to the following address:
Ann-Britt Karlsson
IT Faculty
Lindholmen
SE 412 96 Göteborg
Reference number should be clearly stated when sending complementary documents.
The University of Gothenburg promotes equal opportunities, equality and diversity.
Salary is determined on an individual basis.
Applications will be destroyed or returned (upon request) two years after the decision of employment has become final. Applications from the employed and from those who appeal the decision will not be returned.
Project description:
Multilanguage Sentiment analysis module. The NLP technician will be in charge of the English version of the Module, making the necessary changes to the Spanish version already developed.
Linguistic rules. Definition of linguistic rules for sentiment analysis in English (negation, reversal, intensification, etc.), including collocations / idioms.
Text preprocessing (spell correction, slang and abbreviations)
Anaphora resolution.
Word sense disambiguation
Other tasks related to NLP methodologies that will be required at later stages of development
Entity extraction
Topic classification
Text classification
Emotion mining
Preferred
Programming skills in Java.
Project description:
DocuMeet is a user-friendly SW/HW platform that will allow organisations to better manage their meetings, and to easily document, disseminate, search and implement the conclusions of each meeting. DocuMeet will automatically record, transcribe, summarise and document meetings, using a dedicated recording unit, advanced Automatic Speech Recognition technologies, speaker adaptation and a new summarisation paradigm. DocuMeet will support the complete life cycle of a meeting (preparation, invitation, execution, documentation and follow-up) as well as its integration in the organisation’s knowledge base. Although various products in the market support transcription or meeting management, there is no comprehensive, reliable and affordable solution providing automatic meeting documentation.
Specific tasks
Topic recognizer based on previous labeled cases. This module will identify which topic is being discussed in every meeting segment.
Development of the transcription-based summarizer. With regard to the development of the summarizer, the first step will consist on developing a summarizer based on the main source of information available for the meeting, the transcription output.
Addition of prosodic and meeting related features. In order to improve the results of the summarizer, two different features will be added: a.-prosodic features: These features will be obtained from processing the audio segments of the meeting recording. b.-meeting related features: These features will be obtained by using the topic segmentation results, the profile of each meeting attendant, the meeting agenda and any other information available that describes a priori the meeting.
Project meeting presentations (aprox. 4 meetings per year).
Writing of deliverables (3).
Preferred
Programming skills in Java.
For these positions we are looking for candidates interested in working in conjunction with our DARPA-funded research projects on machine translation and natural language understanding. Research topics could include: syntax-based MT, semantics-based MT, applications of linguistic analysis or large scale optimization to MT, deep learning for NLP, textual similarity and entailment, coreference, relation extraction, or knowledge-base construction and inference.
Postdocs are initially a 1-year position, with good possibilities for extension to 2 or 3 years (depending on performance and continued funding).
The Stanford NLP Group is a fun, collaborative group providing many opportunities for learning, hands-on research and teamwork. See http://nlp.stanford.edu/. The Stanford NLP Group values having a diverse mix of people and is committed to equal opportunity in employment; we are always pleased to identify anyone with great qualifications and promise.
Please apply by sending a cover letter and CV and arranging for 2 or more references to be sent to Christopher Manning, manning AT stanford DOT edu, preferably before the end of March.
]]>