Connectionists: PhD position in Natural Language Processing at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

[Marta Ruiz]

Job openings: 1 PhD position in Machine Learning and Natural Language
Processing at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona

Project: LUNAR ("Lifelong UNiversal lAnguage Representation"), ERC Starting
Grant (2020-2025)

Application deadline: November 15, 2020

Job requirements: Bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in the field of
computer science/engineering or mathematics. Python programming. Experience
in Deep Learning.

Job description:

There is one open position for a PhD researcher in the scope of the ERC
project <https://deep-spin.github.io>LUNAR ("Lifelong UNiversal lAnguage
Representation"). This project addresses the low-resources problem and the
expensive approach to multilingual machine translation since systems for
all translation pairs are required. LUNAR proposes to jointly learn a
multilingual and multimodal model that builds upon a lifelong universal
language representation. This model will compensate for the lack of
supervised data and significantly increase the system capacity of
generalization from training data given the unconventional variety of
employed resources. This model will reduce the number of required
translation systems from quadratic to linear as well as allowing for an
incremental adaptation of new languages and data.

The role of this PhD is to focus on the common multilingual text
representation and the integration of partial resources.

This offer is a 3-year PhD position. If interested in this position, please
send an email with your CV to marta.ruiz AT upc.edu and the subject title
“[LUNAR] PhD Position”. Feel free to contact me for any further information.

Working environment:

The host institution (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) is a public
institution of research and higher education in the fields of engineering,
architecture, sciences and technology, and one of the leading technical
universities in Europe. Every year, more than 6,000 bachelor’s
<https://www.upc.edu/en/bachelors> and master’s
<https://www.upc.edu/en/masters> students and more than 500 doctoral
<https://doctorat.upc.edu/en> students graduate, more than 3,000 faculty
members, and a total of 12 ERC grants.

The principal investigator is part of the ELLIS network
<https://ellis.eu/units>. Collaborations with other ELLIS members are
encouraged.

Salary: 1,200-1,400 (free of tax) euros

More info about the research group at MT-UPC <https://mt.cs.upc.edu/>


-- 
Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà
http://www.costa-jussa.com
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