Dear all,

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD (4-year) on Natural language processing (NLP) and social computing.

POSITIONS: Presently, I am looking to recruit 2 PhD students to start their PhD as members of the TARTUNLP Group, Institute of Computer Sciencehttps://cs.ut.ee/en, at the University of Tartu. The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. As of 2023, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. Here, 13,000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity.

SCOPE (but not limited to): - Content analysis on Social Media​ (Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment analysis, etc.) - Information Disorder on Social Media (Fake news, Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, misinformation, etc.) - Disaster Management Using Social Media​ - Explainable AI in NLP - LLM

BENEFITS:          - Scholarship approximately 2000 Euro/month gross amount.          - Health insurance cover.          - Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc.

HOW TO APPLY: - Send your latest CV to somnath.banerjee@ut.ee with the subject line "PhD position 2024". Your CV must include: - final year undergraduate/graduate project (brief description: max 150 words) - pursued relevant subjects at undergraduate and/or Master level (if any) - relevant work experience (if any) - publications (if any) - The name and email contacts of academic referees(optional) **Do not send academic certificates, motivation letters, letters of recommendation, etc. Upon initial selection based on CVs, additional documents will be asked for further processing.

NOTE: - Master-level students who are in their final semester also can apply. - Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as the processing of the applications will start soon after receiving them.

For queries: Feel free to reach out with questions or comments by contacting somnath.banerjee@ut.ee with the subject line "PhD positions queries".

Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee Assistant Professor, Chair of Natural Language Processing, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, webpage: http://www.ut.ee/~somnath/