NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSINGResearch AssociateApplications Closed

Prof. Aline Villavicencio

University of Sheffield

Position Details

Apply by Dec 7, 2023

Research Associate

University of Sheffield

Application deadline

Dec 7, 2023

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Job location

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University of Sheffield

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Application Deadline

Dec 7, 2023

Start Date

Flexible

Education Required

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Experience Level

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Job Description

The successful candidate will be expected to lead the design and development of strategies for more transparent machine learning models to generate accurate cross-lingual representations for idiomatic language, as well as to contribute to the design and development of resources and evaluation of downstream tasks, like machine translation. For both lines of research, you will build on state-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning.

Requirements

The applicants should hold a PhD (or be close to completion) or have equivalent work experience and a strong publication record. Solid knowledge of Machine Learning models applied to Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning is required
as is excellent programming skills in Python and deep learning frameworks (esp. Keras
TensorFlow or PyTorch). Previous experience developing word embedding models and/or Machine Translation is also desirable.