Connectionists: Postdoc in deep learning for Natural Language Understanding at Idiap (Switzerland)

[James Henderson]

The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for a 
postdoctoral position in the field of natural language understanding, 
developing deep learning methods related to natural language inference 
and summarisation.

The research will be conducted in the framework of a multi-disciplinary 
Swiss NSF funded project, in collaboration with researchers in Political 
Science and Economics. This project will model data from human 
interpretations of policy announcements through fundamental advances in 
representation learning and deep learning architectures for natural 
language inference, including natural language understanding 
technologies such as syntactic and semantic parsing, textual entailment 
and summarisation.

The ideal Postdoc candidate should hold a PhD degree in computer 
science, computational linguistics or related fields. She or he should 
have a background in natural language processing and machine learning. 
The applicant should also have strong programming skills.

The successful Postdoc candidate will join the Natural Language 
Understanding group at Idiap, under the supervision of Dr. James 
Henderson. Appointment for this position is for an initial period of 1 
year, with a starting salary of 80,000 CHF/year, with the possibility of 
renewal based on performance. Funding is currently available for 4 
years. Starting date is to be negotiated, preferably within the last 
quarter of 2018. All queries related to the advertised position can be 
sent to Dr. James Henderson (james.henderson at idiap.ch).

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%2710250%27%7D

Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute funded by 
the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of 
Martigny, in a scenic region surrounded by the highest mountains of 
Europe, offering exceptional quality of life, and within close proximity 
to Lausanne and Geneva.  Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and is 
actively involved in the "Advancement of Women in Science" European 
initiative.

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