A PhD and two postdoc positions on natural language understanding are now available at the Pioneer Centre for AIhttps://www.aicentre.dk/. You can read more about the positions herehttps://www.aicentre.dk/jobs.

PhD Fellowship on Factual Text Generation

While recent large language models demonstrate surprising fluency and predictive capabilities in their generated text, they have been demonstrated to generate factual inaccuracies even when they have encoded truthful information. This limits their utility and safety in real world scenarios where guarantees of factuality are needed. To address this, the project will explore methods for improving the factuality of text generation with respect to both objective real-world facts and provided source documents.

We are looking for candidates with a background in computer science, machine learning, natural language processing, computational social science, or similar. The candidate should have an interest in automatic text generation and fact checking. They should also have an interest in interdisciplinary research endeavors, including at the Pioneer Center for AI. Early research experience, especially with empirical research methods, or relevant industry experience, will be a bonus.

The principal supervisor is Professor Isabelle Augensteinmailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk and the co-supervisor is Dustin Wrightmailto:dw@di.ku.dk.

Application deadline: 1 April 2024. Apply herehttps://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18970&ProjectId=161235&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false.

Postdoctoral Fellowship on NLP for Computational Social Science

The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing.

NLP is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for social scientists. Yet, the intersection between the two disciplines is still poorly explored, with research in the two disciplines often being conducted as separate streams. The goal of this project is to research methods which can more directly be useful for downstream social science applications. One such application is to analyse common narratives in news, which requires methods including (interpretable) topic modelling, framing detection, social media analysis, etc. The successful candidate will be affiliated with a larger initiative on narrative analysis, spanning different content modalities, with the autonomy to define their project in this larger context.

The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence’s Speech and Language Collaboratory, CopeNLUhttps://www.copenlu.com/ and the Belongie Labhttps://www.belongielab.org/. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augensteinmailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk.

Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply herehttps://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161353.

Postdoctoral Fellowship on Multi-Modal Fact Checking

The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing.

Online content can include multiple different modalities, ranging from text to images or tables. Increasingly, detecting false information requires the understanding of a combination of these modalities and the relationship between them. This project will focus on developing general-purpose multi-modal methods for automatic fact checking in various domains, such as scientific publications, news or social media. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augensteinmailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk or Assistant Professor Desmond Elliotmailto:de@di.ku.dk.

Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply herehttps://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161352.

Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence

University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen

augenstein@di.ku.dkmailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/