The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/nlp/wuenlp/ as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS) https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas/ offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP).

The position is bound to the project EQUIFAIR (Equitably Fair and Trustworthy Language Technology), funded by the Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung as part of the “Responsible AI” program. The project targets two major issues related to *alignment of large language models* (LLMs): hallucinations and societal biases, to be addressed in a (massively) multilingual context (i.e., across a wide variety of natural languages) and in an explainable/interpretable manner.

The applicants should have a doctoral degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline. Substantial experience in modern NLP (i.e., LLM-based) research is expected, as well as prior publications at top-tier NLP/ML venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), demonstrating ability to conduct research at the highest level. Prior experience in any of the subareas relevant to the project, namely fair and trustworthy NLP (hallucinations, biases), multilinguality, and/or explainable/interpretable AI, is a plus.

The position is available for *two years*; the project will start as soon as the suitable candidate for this position is found. The remuneration will be at the level *E14* of the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L).

Please send your application with standard documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records, optionally letter(s) or recommendation; please concatenate all documents into a single PDF) at your earliest convenience, but no later than *30.09.2023* to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš ( goran.glavas@uni-wuerzburg.de). Potential candidates are welcome to also informally contact Prof. Glavaš for additional information. We take diversity seriously and *especially encourage female and diversity* *candidates to apply*.

WüNLP is one of the leading German NLP research labs. We are a young and energetic research group, part of CAIDAS, the ambitious AI research center of the University of Würzburg. Würzburg is one of the most livable cities in Germany.

More information: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/nlp/news/single/news/open-position-p...