Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Universitat pompeu fabra
- Department
- Department of Translation and Language Sciences
- Research Field
- Language sciences » Linguistics
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Country
- Spain
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Part-time
- Hours Per Week
- Negotiable
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- HE
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
We are opening a two-year part-time position within the frame of the EU-funded HORIZON-2020 project TRUSTING: ‘A trustworthy speech-based AI monitoring system for the prediction of relapse in individuals with schizophrenia’, which will start on 1 July 2023. The project’s aim is to predict relapse in people who have recovered from psychosis through an AI-based speech monitoring system. We offer the exciting opportunity to become part of a well-structured international network comprising leading experts at four main European sites: Groningen, Zürich, Tromsoe, and Barcelona. The candidate will be associated to the Barcelona end of the project (PI: Wolfram Hinzen) and join the GraC lab (www.upf.edu/web/grac), a highly interdisciplinary environment dedicated to the study of language function in mental illness. The lab is based at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (www.upf.edu) at the Poblenou campus. The main language of the lab and the project is English.
The appointee should be an early-stage researcher with 1-4 years of research experience and practical expertise in computational linguistics, specifically in artificial neural language models such as BERT. You will:
- Be responsible for data management and curation of project speech data;
- Perform NLP analyses and research;
- Organize the Barcelona work package on a day-to-day level;
- Liaise with other project sites;
- Participate in high-level publications.
This is intended as 50% part-time position, but the exact dedication of hours between 17,5 and 32,5 hours can be negotiated with the PI. There is an option, which we encourage, of pursuing a PhD with an independent research project alongside this position. Please direct all prior inquiries to the PI at wolfram.hinzen@upf.edu.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Language sciences
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
- Masters degree or equivalent in linguistics with a specialization in computational linguistics.
- 1-4 years of research experience in a relevant field.
- Excellent organizational and team-working skills.
- Autonomy and ability to think out of the box.
- Good written and oral scientific communication skills in English.
- Familiarity with standard natural language processing toolboxes, at one or several of the levels prosody, syntax, and semantics.
- Specific familiarity with language models such as BERT.
- Some programming experience, for example with R, Python, or MATLAB.
- Knowledge of NLP within psychiatry will be a significant advantage.
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
- Research Field
- Language sciences » Linguistics
- Years of Research Experience
- 1 - 4
Additional Information
Salary commensurate with weekly dedication, it will oscile between 16.006,8€ and 29.725,32€ gross salary. An exact hourly dedication between 17,5 and 32,5 hours per week can be negotiated with the PI.
Masters in-hand by 1 September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.
All interested candidates must send (i) a complete and detailed CV specifying the names and contact details of at least two academic referees, and (ii) a letter of motivation, in a single pdf to the addresses wolfram.hinzen@upf.edu and professorat.dtcl@upf.edu, stating job number TRAD-PSR-2023-7. Applications sent before 1 June 2023 will be guaranteed consideration.
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Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Translation and Language Sciences Department
- Country
- Spain
- Geofield
Where to apply
- professorat.dtcl@upf.edu
Contact
- City
- Barcelona
- Website
- Street
- carrer Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona
- Postal Code
- 08018