2 fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing
Posted : 1 March 2022
Closes : 18 March 2022
Location : NUI Galway

The Unit for Natural Language Processing [1] at the National University of Ireland Galway [2] invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions in NLP associated with the research program on Multimodal Data Analysis of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics [3].

Topics of interest include:
– relation extraction in the context of knowledge graph development
– empathic or context-aware dialogue systems
– semantics in social media analysis

Candidates should enjoy working with real-world problems as well as have:
– a Masters degree in a relevant field of study with an emphasis on NLP
– experience in machine learning and deep learning
– good programming skills in Python
– good proficiency in English

The closing date for applications is Friday March 18 2022. Interviews will be held during the week commencing March 28 2022, subject to confirmation. Please send your application (CV and cover letter in a single PDF, please specify your name in the file name) to
paul.buitelaar@insight-centre.org

[1] https://dsi.nuigalway.ie/unlp
[2] http://www.nuigalway.ie
[3] http://insight-centre.org