PhD scholarship in Culture-Aware Evaluation of Large Language Models in Low-Resourced Languages at Centre for Language Technology, The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen

The Centre for Language Technology (cst.ku.dkhttps://cst.ku.dk/english/) at The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship starting on 1 September 2025 or soon after. The selected candidate will be co-supervised by both the Centre for Language Technology and the Department of Computer Science and will be physically located in both places during their employment.

The PhD scholarship is funded by the AI initiative ‘Sikker platform til udvikling af transparente danske sprogmodeller’ (‘secure platform for the development of Danish language model’), which is part of the AI Strategy embarked in 2024 by the Ministry of Digital Affairs (www.digmin.dkhttps://www.digmin.dk/Media/638687214351712933/Strategisk%20indsats%20for%20kunstig%20intelligens.pdf). The candidate will be affiliated to the project group ‘Danish Foundation Models’, (www.foundationmodels.dkhttps://www.foundationmodels.dk/) which is a collaboration between several major universities in Denmark addressing the aforementioned initiative, including Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, the Alexandra Institute and the University of Copenhagen.

For more information, please see https://jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=163674

Patrizia Paggio

Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio@hum.ku.dkmailto:paggio@hum.ku.dk

Professor University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mtmailto:patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt

Selected recent publications and upcoming projects:

Paggio, P., Manex Agirrezabal, M., Navarretta, C. and Vitasovic, L. (2024) Multimodal behaviour in an online environment: The GEHM Zoom corpus collection. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia. https://archive.org/details/GEHM_meeting_corpus

MultiplEYE DK - Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection - Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-stoettet/cf24-2005/