Connectionists: Post-doctoral position in deep learning for natural language understanding

[James Henderson]

The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for a Postdoc 
position in the field of natural language understanding. The research 
will be conducted in the framework of EU H2020 and IARPA projects, in 
collaboration with international consortia.

The successful candidate will work with Dr. James Henderson 
(http://cui.unige.ch/~hendersj/) within the Natural Language 
Understanding group at Idiap, and have the opportunity to collaborate 
with other world-class researchers in machine learning, natural language 
processing and speech recognition at Idiap, their project partners, and 
nearby EPFL.  The NLU group has expertise in representation learning and 
deep neural network structured prediction applied to syntactic/semantic 
parsing, semantic entailment, machine translation, information retrieval 
and other NLP tasks.

The research will investigate deep learning architectures for 
cross-lingual natural language understanding and indexing.  The focus 
can include end-to-end integration with neural speech recognition, 
cross-lingual and compositional representation learning, low-resource 
training methods, machine translation, summarisation and cross-lingual 
information retrieval.

The ideal candidate should hold a PhD degree in computer science or a 
related field. She/he will have a background in natural language 
processing and/or machine learning, with strong programming skills and 
an excellent publication record. Familiarity with deep learning toolkits 
will be an advantage.

The Postdoc position is offered on a one-year basis with the possibility 
of renewal based on funding and performance, with a starting salary of 
80,000 CHF/year.  Exceptionally qualified candidates can also be 
considered for a longer-term Research Associate position.  Starting date 
is immediate or to be negotiated.

Please apply online here:
http://www.idiap.ch/webapps/jobs/ors/applicant/position/index.php?PHP_APE_DR_9e581720b5ef40dc7af21c41bac4f4eb=%7B__TO%3D%27detail%27%3B__PK%3D%2710223%27%7D

Sincerely,
   - James Henderson
     james.henderson at idiap.ch