The NLP group at Linköping University, Swedenhttps://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/, is now hiring a PhD student for research on multilingual LLMs for lower-resourced languages!

For this PhD position, you will work within the TrustLLM project, an EU-funded Horizon Europe project on developing open, trustworthy, and sustainable LLMs, initially targeting the Germanic languages. It involves consortium partners from Denmark, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Specific research topics include:

* tokenization and embedding alignment techniques * addressing grammatical correctness and bias in pre-training * benchmarking and evaluation

You will also participate in the Graduate School in Computer Science (CUGS) at Linköping University.

Your PhD supervisors will be Marcel Bollmannhttps://marcel.bollmann.me/ and Marco Kuhlmannhttps://liu.se/en/employee/marku61. This PhD position is a fully-funded, full-time, salaried position with attractive employee benefits and pension contributions.

For more information about the position and a link to the application system, please see

https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/phd-student-trustllm/

You are welcome to contact me or Marco for additional information.

The application deadline is 2023-11-21.

Best wishes, Marcel Bollmann

-- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/