Natural Language Processing

The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, organized by ACL's SIGDAT, held October 24-29, 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, with a main conference plus workshops and tutorials.

Lead the development and evaluation of generative-AI tools for perinatal mental health at the Parent-Infant Research Institute. The work combines language-model and chatbot development with assessment of safety, implementation and patient outcomes in digital interventions. It also involves research publications, grants and governance. The appointment is full-time for 12 months, with job sharing considered. Advertised annual salary is AUD 108,820–123,905 pro rata, with applicable allowances, superannuation and salary-packaging benefits.

EMBL-EBI seeks a scientific developer for the Open Targets Safety 2.0 project. The role builds machine-learning and data-processing pipelines that extract drug side-effect evidence from publications, clinical trials and drug labels, map it to biomedical ontologies, and integrate results with ChEMBL and the Open Targets Platform. The researcher will help curate training data, collaborate with pharmaceutical partners and communicate methods and results. This is a full-time hybrid role based in Hinxton, UK. The advert gives a closing date of 11 October 2026 at 23:59 CET.

The BrAIN group recruits a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded BrainAlign project, investigating whether human brain activity can improve language models’ long-timescale understanding. The researcher leads the computational neuroscience work, integrates heterogeneous fMRI datasets and develops models that learn from naturalistic language comprehension. The project also uses these models to investigate language processing in the brain. Candidates need a relevant PhD, strong computational or machine-learning skills and programming experience; fMRI expertise is particularly useful. Apply through the Max Planck Postdoc Program with a CV and publications, research summary, statement of interest and up to three referees. The project advert describes rolling review; the programme’s September 2026 application window closes on 13 October at 12:00 CEST.

Lead the behavioural-evaluation component of Mariya Toneva’s ERC BrainAlign project. The postdoc will develop tasks and a gamified platform to collect human understanding of full narratives and books, then evaluate brain-aligned language models against those data. The role combines NLP, machine learning and cognitive science, with collaboration across computational and neuroimaging teams. This vacancy belongs to the September 2026 Max Planck Postdoc Program call, which accepts applications until 13 October 2026 at 12:00 CEST through the official application platform.

Lead the development and evaluation of generative-AI tools for perinatal mental health at the Parent-Infant Research Institute. The work combines language-model and chatbot development with assessment of safety, implementation and patient outcomes in digital interventions. It also involves research publications, grants and governance. The appointment is full-time for 12 months, with job sharing considered. Advertised annual salary is AUD 108,820–123,905 pro rata, with applicable allowances, superannuation and salary-packaging benefits.

The BrAIN group recruits a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded BrainAlign project, investigating whether human brain activity can improve language models’ long-timescale understanding. The researcher leads the computational neuroscience work, integrates heterogeneous fMRI datasets and develops models that learn from naturalistic language comprehension. The project also uses these models to investigate language processing in the brain. Candidates need a relevant PhD, strong computational or machine-learning skills and programming experience; fMRI expertise is particularly useful. Apply through the Max Planck Postdoc Program with a CV and publications, research summary, statement of interest and up to three referees. The project advert describes rolling review; the programme’s September 2026 application window closes on 13 October at 12:00 CEST.

EMBL-EBI seeks a scientific developer for the Open Targets Safety 2.0 project. The role builds machine-learning and data-processing pipelines that extract drug side-effect evidence from publications, clinical trials and drug labels, map it to biomedical ontologies, and integrate results with ChEMBL and the Open Targets Platform. The researcher will help curate training data, collaborate with pharmaceutical partners and communicate methods and results. This is a full-time hybrid role based in Hinxton, UK. The advert gives a closing date of 11 October 2026 at 23:59 CET.

Lead the behavioural-evaluation component of Mariya Toneva’s ERC BrainAlign project. The postdoc will develop tasks and a gamified platform to collect human understanding of full narratives and books, then evaluate brain-aligned language models against those data. The role combines NLP, machine learning and cognitive science, with collaboration across computational and neuroimaging teams. This vacancy belongs to the September 2026 Max Planck Postdoc Program call, which accepts applications until 13 October 2026 at 12:00 CEST through the official application platform.