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22/04/2021
European Research Council

Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP), FASTPARSE Project

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  • ORGANISATION/COMPANY
    Universidade da Coruña
  • RESEARCH FIELD
    Computer science › Other
    Language sciences › Linguistics
  • RESEARCHER PROFILE
    Recognised Researcher (R2)
    Established Researcher (R3)
    Leading Researcher (R4)
  • APPLICATION DEADLINE
    04/05/2021 23:00 - Europe/Brussels
  • LOCATION
    Spain › A Coruña
  • TYPE OF CONTRACT
    Temporary
  • JOB STATUS
    Full-time
  • HOURS PER WEEK
    37.5
  • OFFER STARTING DATE
    01/07/2021
  • EU RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
    H2020 / ERC
  • REFERENCE NUMBER
    2021/CP/076

OFFER DESCRIPTION

The University of A Coruña is offering a full-time postdoctoral position in A Coruña (Spain) to conduct research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The position is available within the  European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) project FASTPARSE (Fast Natural Language Parsing for Large-Scale NLP), led by Prof. Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. The main goal of this frontier research project is to develop new algorithms and techniques to improve the speed of natural language parsers, making them suitable for web-scale processing.

The University of A Coruña is a young, vibrant public university located in A Coruña, a charming city in the Atlantic coast of Galicia (Spain) offering high quality of life at an affordable cost of living for European standards. The FASTPARSE laboratory will in turn be affiliated with the highly-active Language and Information Society research group, which joins together researchers from computer science and linguistics backgrounds interested in computational linguistics and NLP. The selected researcher will develop, implement and evaluate dependency and constituency parsing models, contributing to the project’s research lines, and will colaborate in providing guidance and support to the PhD students working for the project.The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to publish at the top international conferences and journals in the field.

How to apply:

Interested candidates can send their application by email to Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez (cgomezr@udc.es), specifying that they wish to apply to positions 2021/CP/076 and including in attachment (PDF format):

  • Cover letter.
  • CV, including contact details, list of publications, and any other relevant information according to the criteria above.
  • Full contact details (name, address, telephone, email) of up to three professional references.
  • ID card or passport, and copy of Ph.D. degree diploma/certificate.

Shortlisted candidates may be asked for additional information, and will be interviewed.

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Benefits

  • Gross salary level in the range of €29500-30500 per year.
  • The expected start date is July 1, 2021.
  • The period of the contract will be 1 year.
  • The project will cover travel money for attending international conferences and making research visits to prestigious research institutions.

Eligibility criteria

The skills and merits that will be considered are described in the "Skills/Qualifications" and "Specific Requirements" section.

Selection process

The CV and merits of the applicant will be evaluated by a selection committee headed by the principal investigator of the project. Candidates that meet the minimum criteria will be interviewed, and the top-ranking candidate will be selected for the position.

Web site for additional job details

https://sede.udc.gal/services/electronic_board/EXP2021/004061

https://fastparse.grupolys.org/job-vacancies

Requirements

Offer Requirements

  • REQUIRED LANGUAGES
    ENGLISH: Excellent

Skills/Qualifications

Preferred qualifications (evaluation criteria):

The applicant should be motivated and interested in starting a research career in natural language processing, and have good team work skills. The applicant's academic record in their bachelor's and master's degree will be assessed with special attention to the subjects related with the project. Apart from the academic record, the candidate should mention any other relevant activities (e.g. courses taken, master's theses, software projects including open source projects in public repositories, work experience, research publications, etc.). The following aspects are not requirements, but will be considered favorably in the evaluation:

  • Knowledge in the fields of natural language processing, machine learning, or deep learning.
  • Knowledge in linguistics or cognitive science.
  • Knowledge of different programming languages.
  • Knowledge of languages other than English or Spanish, with special emphasis on Chinese, Arabic and/or German.

Specific Requirements

Minimum qualifications (exclusion criteria):

  • Ph. D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics or related fields.
  • Solid programming skills in at least one of C++, Java, C#, or similar.
  • Fluent spoken and written English (knowledge of Spanish is NOT required).
  • Research experience (publications) in NLP/Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning. The candidate must have high-impact scientific publications in the project's research area (at least five publications in this field in the last five years, ranked A or A* in the CORE Conference Ranking, or in the top three quartiles by impact factor in ISI Journal Citation Reports).

If you think that your background is relevant to the project goals, please get in touch even if you do not fit the indicated profile.

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FASTPARSE Research Lab, Facultade de Informática, Universidade da Coruña
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A Coruña
A Coruña
15071
Campus de Elviña, s/n

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