CeADAR (Ireland's Centre for Applied AI: https://ceadar.ie) at the UCD School of Computer Science (https://ucd.ie/cs/) is seeking to appoint postdoctoral researchers at any level of experience until *September 2023* to work on the TRANSPIRE project in *Dublin, Ireland*.

You will perform novel research on Machine Learning, AI and Natural Language Processing for legal and regulatory texts. The key research focus of the project relates to analysis, classification and knowledge extraction for these texts in a transparent way. As such, a core priority will be a body of research on explainable and/or interpretable models for legal text analysis.

TRANSPIRE is funded under the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) and is a collaboration with two industry partners: Corlytics ( https://corlytics.com) and Version 1 (https://version1.com). As such, a core feature of the project is to work closely with domain experts who will both inform the research and contribute domain expertise towards training the models.

Candidates should have research experience in one or more of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Text Analytics (including the use of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and/or Explainable AI for textual data).

For application details and salary scales please see: - *Research Fellow* (≥4 years postdoctoral research experience): click here https://my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecruit/erq_search_version_4.start_search_with_params?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_competition_type=ALLOPTIONS&p_department=ALLOPTIONS&p_keywords=&p_recruitment_id=014723&p_emp_status=&p_emp_substatus=&p_category=&p_sub_category=&p_job_category=&p_description=&p_location=&p_division=&p_pay_scale=&p_user_field1=&p_user_field2=&p_user_field3=&p_user_field4=&p_user_field5=&p_force_type=E&p_search_company=&p_position=&p_position_type=&p_management_unit= (or visit https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ and search for job reference 014723) - *Postdoctoral Researcher* (<4 years postdoctoral research experience) click here https://my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecruit/erq_search_version_4.start_search_with_params?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_competition_type=ALLOPTIONS&p_department=ALLOPTIONS&p_keywords=&p_recruitment_id=014722&p_emp_status=&p_emp_substatus=&p_category=&p_sub_category=&p_job_category=&p_description=&p_location=&p_division=&p_pay_scale=&p_user_field1=&p_user_field2=&p_user_field3=&p_user_field4=&p_user_field5=&p_force_type=E&p_search_company=&p_position=&p_position_type=&p_management_unit= (or visit https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ and search for job reference 014722)

Please note that due to institutional rules, if you wish to be considered for both positions you will need to apply for both separately.

The closing date for applications is *Friday July 15th 2022*.

For informal enquiries about these roles, please contact david.lillis@ucd.ie

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