The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas) offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP).
The position is bound to a European project EUINACTION ( https://www.euinaction.eu/), carried out in collaboration with two Political Science research groups, at the University of Leiden and the University of Strathclyde. The candidate's role in the project will be to apply and advance state-of-the-art neural NLP to help answer interesting research questions in Political Science.
The position is available from 1.10.2022 and is available until the end of the grant, 31.12.2023. There is a possibility of extension, subject to mutual interest and availability of third-party research funding. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science, with a specialisation in machine learning or natural language processing and interest in the topic of the project. Both applicants with completed Master (or equivalent) degree as well as those with a completed PhD (postdocs) are welcome to apply.
Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31.7.2022 to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (goran.glavas@uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact Prof. Glavaš (via the same email address) for additional information.
WüNLP is a young research group that takes diversity very seriously. Female and diversity candidates as well as international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.