(apologies for cross posting)
The HiTZ center (https://hitz.ehu.eus) has received several large
multiyear grants to advance research in all aspects of NLP and Language
Technologies, with a focus on Large Language Models, common sense,
cross-lingual evaluation and low-resource languages, covering all
modalities including text, speech, images and videos. The center will
be offering a number of PhD, post-doctoral and research engineer
positions shortly with relatively flexible starting dates. Please
contact us if interested.
HiTZ is a reference research center on Language Technologies. Its aim is
to promote research, training, technological transfer and innovation in
Artificial Intelligence focused on language and speech. HiTZ is a leader
in research in Spain. It holds, among other, two Spanish Research Awards
in Computer Science, one of the 15 fellows that the main professional
association in the area (Association for Computational Linguistics) has
in Europe, and the award for the best PhD thesis in Artificial
Intelligence in Europe (EurAI 2020). The center is part of the
University of the Basque Country (https://ehu.eus), one of the top 400
universities in the world according to the Shanghai ranking. The center
has offices in San Sebastian and Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain), two
cities which rank at the top of places-to-visit and happiness rankings.
This message is specifically about two fully-funded positions that need
to be filled quickly.
The recipients of these PhD positions will be awarded a fully-funded
four-year scholarship, as well as additional funding for the payment of
doctoral tuition fees and research stays abroad. The PhD theses will be
carried out in the framework of the TRAIN (EXTREMELY LOW-RESOURCED
MACHINE TRANSLATION) and DeepKnowledge (DEEP LANGUAGE MODELS FOR
UNDERSTANDING AND REASONING WITH MULTILINGUAL CONTENT) projects.
The TRAIN project will explore techniques for machine translation
between languages with very scarce resources, including multimodal
translation from Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to written Spanish.
The main research objective of DeepKnowledge consists in advancing the
state-of-the-art towards NLU and NLG by generating and exploiting new
language models by taking into account a multitask and multimodal
objective during the pre-training, as well as exploring novel ways to
exploiting new large language models.
The official deadline for the two FPI pre-doctoral grants is 26 January,
but contact us asap if interested
(https://www.ehu.eus/es/web/ikerketaren-kudeaketa/-/fpi-2022).
If you are interested in these two positions (or any of the future
positions), please send your CV and academic transcript to Gorka Labaka
(gorka.lab...@ehu.eus).
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Gorka Labaka
Dept. of Computer Languages and Systems
HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technologies - Ixa
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Tel: (+34) 946 01 44 86
e-mail: gorka.lab...@ehu.eus
