Dear all,

I am looking for motivated students for PhD (4-year) on SocialNLP. SocialNLP is a new interdisciplinary area of natural language processing (NLP) and social computing.

The scope of doctoral thesis proposals (but is not restricted to) is based on the following topics: - 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 SocialNLP

Why the University of Tartuhttps://ut.ee/en? - The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. The University of Tartu is known for its high-quality studies and research. The unique intellectual atmosphere and fine living and working environment that characterise Tartu have attracted prominent scientists and experts for almost 390 years. - As of 2023, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. - The University of Tartu is the strongest research university in Estonia. We belong to various networks of renowned research universities, such as ENLIGHT, the Coimbra Group, LERU, etc. - Here, 13 000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity. - Estonia is famous for its digital society and has the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. Estonia is famous for its digital innovations, and it is home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise, and Bolt to name a few.

Scholarship: - Competitive scholarship which covers health insurance (as per the UT rules and regulations) - Additional benefits: Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc.

If you are interested, please drop me an email (somnath.banerjee@ut.ee) with the followings: - CV which 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)

Please 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. - Upon initial selection based on CV, additional documents will be asked for further processing, such as motivation later, etc.

For queries: If you need more information, please contact me with the subject line "SocialNLP: PhD position queries".

Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee

Lecturer (~ Assistant Professor), Chair of Data Science, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Narva mnt 18 room 3063 51009 Tartu, ESTONIA webpage: http://www.ut.ee/~somnath/