The Speech and Language Technology group of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), offers two research/PhD positions in clinical text processing and clinical decision support. The position is located in Berlin and would be in close collaboration with colleagues at DFKI, but also partially with clinical partners.

Position 1: Clinical text processing

Your tasks:

The candidate will work within our team on topics related to (neural) information extraction, concept normalization and medical guideline matching. A PhD could be developed within the scope of the given tasks, but could address problems such as cross-domain/cross-language learning, few shot learning, knowledge integration or generation of synthetic (patient) data. This research brings the opportunity to test, interdisciplinary, novel technologies for medical care.

Your qualifications:

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A completed Masters degree (or equivalent qualification) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a comparable field -

Good knowledge of and preferably hands-on experience with natural language technologies (tools and libraries) -

Experience with python -

Experience in machine learning (e.g. Pytorch, Spacy, Transformers…) -

Ability to efficiently familiarize yourself with new tools and topics -

Team player, result-driven, highly self-motivated -

Very good English language skills (written and spoken) -

At least some Basic knowledge of German

Your benefits :

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A wide and interesting range of tasks and extensive development opportunities -

Contribution to trend-setting, innovative projects in the field of Language Technology and AI -

An innovative, agile and professional work environment -

An attractive workplace in the heart of Berlin

Position 2: Clinical decision support:

Your tasks:

The candidate will work within our team on the development of machine learning models integrating longitudinal, semi-structured data, to support physicians and clinical staff. The field would be in the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing and explainability and would include interdisciplinary work. A PhD could be defined/developed within the scope of the given tasks.

Your qualifications:

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A completed Masters degree (or equivalent qualification) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or a comparable field -

Experience with python -

Experience in machine learning or neural networks (e.g. Pytorch, SPacy, Transformers,...) -

Preferably hands-on experience with medical data -

Ability to efficiently familiarize yourself with new tools and topics -

Team player, result-driven, highly self-motivated -

Very good English language skills (written and spoken) -

At least some Basic knowledge of German

Your benefits :

-

A wide and interesting range of tasks and extensive development opportunities -

Contribution to trend-setting, innovative projects in the field of Language Technology and AI -

An innovative, agile and professional work environment -

An attractive workplace in the heart of Berlin

Successful applicants will be employed according to their qualifications. We offer excellent working conditions with interesting research topics in an interdisciplinary team at an internationally renowned research centre.

The position is initially limited to the duration of the underlying project (until mid/end 2025).

Severely disabled applicants with essentially the same professional and personal suitability will be given priority. The DFKI intends to increase the proportion of women in the science sector and therefore explicitly invites women to apply.

We look forward to receiving your application documents. Please send them in electronic form to Roland Roller (roland.roller@dfki.de) and Philippe Thomas (philippe.thomas@dfki.de). Deadline: October 14. Applicants who submit their documents after the deadline may also be considered - depending on whether the position has already been filled.