Connectionists: PostDoc Position in Speech and Natural Language Processing at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

[Marta Ruiz]

Job openings: 1 PostDocs position in Speech 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: PhD in the field of computer science/engineering or
mathematics. Python programming. Experience in Deep Learning and Speech and
Natural Language Processing.

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 Postdoc is to research on the common
multilingual/multimodal representation, multitasking and unsupervised
approaches.

This offer is a 1-year PostDoc position extendable on a year basis to
4-years (in total). If interested in this position, please send an email
with your CV to marta.ruiz AT upc.edu and the subject title “[LUNAR]
PostDoc 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 3000 faculty
members, and 12 ERC grants.

The principal investigator is part of the ELLIS network
<https://ellis.eu/units>. Collaborations with other ELLIS members are
encouraged.
Salary: 2,300-2,700 euros (free of tax)

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

-- 
Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà
Researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
marta.ruiz at upc.edu <martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>
http://www.costa-jussa.com
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