Dear colleagues,

we have an opening for a *fully funded **PhD student or postdoc* position in*NLP & Cognitive Modeling* at Saarland University, Germany.

The position is affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102, a thriving research environment with 38 PhD students and 9 postdocs investigating language from a variety of computational and cognitive angles.

The successful applicant will be supervised by Prof. Michael Hahn, and have the opportunity to collaborateclosely with other researchers at the CRC and at Saarland University.

The successful applicant is expected to have a strong background in natural language processing using neural networks, and a strong interest in language or cognition.

Some publications representing Prof. Hahn's research interests:

M. Hahn, R. Futrell, R. Levy, E. Gibson. A resource-rational model of human processing of recursive linguistic structure https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122602119. PNAS, 2022.

M. Hahn, F. Keller. Modeling task effects in human reading with neural network-based attention https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00054. Cognition, 2023.

M. Hahn. Theoretical limitations of self-attention in neural sequence models. https://doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00306 TACL, 2020.

You can learn more about our research athttps://www.mhahn.info and https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/ .

DETAILS

The appointment is for 36 months (PhD student) or 24 months (postdoc). Pay grade is E13 TV-L, volume of employment:75% or 100%of standard working time. For full details, please refer to the job advertisement: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft...

QUALIFICATION

The successful applicant is expected to have: •an excellent academic track record •a strong background in natural language processing using neural networks •excellent programming skills and quantitative skills •a strong interest in language or cognition •full professional proficiency in spoken and written English

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a PDF file with: (a) your CV (with a list of any publications), (b) contact information of two references, (c) a cover letter (1-2 pages) that describes your research interests, (d) copies of transcripts and academic degree certificates to mhahn@lst.uni-saarland.de by 14.04.2023. Please include the reference numberW2275in the subject line of the e-mail.

If you have anyquestions, please contact Michael Hahnat mhahn@lst.uni-saarland.de