Connectionists: PhD / post-doc position in ASR & NLP

[Phil Garner]

Dear Colleagues,

There is a fully funded PhD (or possibly post-doc) position open at Idiap 
Research Institute on "ASR & NLP for structured selection interviews".
The project is a collaboration between psychology departments at the 
universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, and the speech and audio processing 
group at Idiap.

The research will involve study of deep hierarchical architectures for semantic 
inference. Building on state of the art approaches to speech and language 
processing, the pipeline is likely to make use of pre-trained self supervised 
models (e.g., wav2vec2, BERT). The open questions include how to customise such 
approaches to structured selection interviews, in particular the role of 
storytelling.

There will be ample opportunity for research in the component technologies, 
which are all currently pertinent in the general machine learning landscape. In 
particular, we expect to make advances in the technological interfaces between 
component technologies, and in the humanist interfaces between the machine 
learning practitioners and social scientists.

For more information, and to apply, please follow this link:
  https://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs/job-10330

Idiap is located in Martigny in French speaking Switzerland, but functions in 
English and hosts many nationalities. PhD students are typically registered at 
EPFL. All positions offer quite generous salaries. Martigny is a local art, 
culture and viticulture hub, and is close to all manner of skiing, hiking and 
mountain life.

There are other open positions on Idiap's main page
  https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities

Sincerely,
-- 
Phil Garner
http://www.idiap.ch/~pgarner