Bielefeld University has an open position as group leader in Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Technology.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can independently set up and lead a group on Natural Language Processing. The group leader is expected to build up an independent research profile in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to publish the research work at international conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, …).

The group leader will be affiliated with the „Semantic Computing Lab“ [1] led by Prof. Philipp Cimiano

The research of the group leader should be compatible with the research topics of the „Semantic Computing“ lab. Possible research topics include:

• Robustness and safety of large language models for NLP • Ethical aspects and FAIRness of NLP systems • Fine-tuning and transfer learning for the adaptation of LLMs • LLMs for information extraction • Auto-ML for LLMs • Argument Mining • Common Sense Knowledge for NLP • Temporal Reasoning for NLP

The successful candidate has an excellent track record in the field of NLP with demonstrated ability to publish at top tier conferences. Ideally, the candidate will have teaching experience and experience in third party funding acquisition.

The position involves teaching duties corresponding to 4 hours per week.

The position is available for 3 years and can be extended for up to 3 further years.

Inquires and applications should be sent to cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de mailto:cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de mailto:cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de. The application deadline is October 25th. Applications should include a CV, research statement and teaching concept.

[1] https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/technische-fakultaet/arbeitsgruppen...

Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) Universität Bielefeld

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