| More Information: | PRE-PH.D.+PH.D. RESEARCH POSITION IN Multilingual NLP
Babelscape srl, Rome, Italy, and
Sapienza NLP, Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Deadline: as soon as the position is filled
Babelscape (http://babelscape.com), a successful multilingual NLP company with
20+ employees, jointly with the internationally renowned NLP group at the
Sapienza University of Rome, offers a full-time, EU-funded, 3-year position to
work on the automatic construction, alignment and maintenance of lexicalized
knowledge graphs such as commonsense networks, multilingual electronic
dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, etc., including the development of novel
neural architectures, e.g. the automatic generation of explanations, and the
integration of explicit semantics from lexicalized knowledge graphs like
BabelNet (version 5 will be out soon this fall) into neural network models. The
position is funded by the KnowGraphs ITN project focused on research on
knowledge graphs.
The candidate will have the freedom to work at Babelscape's brand new offices in
the central S. Giovanni neighborhood (10 minutes from the Colosseum), where
several NLP engineers and researchers work on cutting-edge multilingual NLP, and
at the Sapienza NLP group in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza
University of Rome (main campus, in the University neighborhood, 20 minutes from
Babelscape's offices). Both Sapienza NLP and Babelscape are very active in the
field of multilingual Natural Language Understanding: this year, we published
tens of papers at ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, IJCAI, LREC, Artificial Intelligence
Journal.
The successful candidate will start his/her work immediately and enrol in a
Ph.D. in 2021 (by applying to a special grant funded by Babelscape and dedicated
to its employees) in the Department of Computer Science at the Sapienza
University of Rome under the supervision of prof. Roberto Navigli, leading an
internationally-renowned group of 20 researchers and Ph.D. students in
multilingual Natural Language Understanding.
Duties and responsibilities
The selected candidate will carry out research on novel methods for constructing
and interlinking multilingual lexicographic knowledge graphs, including
integrating multilingual lexical and commonsense semantics into neural network
architectures to enhance Natural Language Understanding tasks. During the
project the researcher will be hosted at a partner academic organization for one
secondment in order to work on a specific topic. The host organization is
fixed.
Profile
M.Sc. in computer science, AI, computational linguistics or related fields.
Proficiency in Python.
Knowledge of deep learning architectures and PyTorch is a plus.
Excellent communication skills.
The candidate may not have resided or carried out his/her main activity in Italy
for more than 12 months in the last 3 years.
The candidate must be, at the time of recruitment, in the first four years of
her/his research career (measured from the date when the candidate obtained the
degree which would formally entitle her/him to embark on a doctorate).
Remuneration
The selected researcher will receive a living allowance (3270 euros gross per
month) and a mobility allowance (600 euros per month). In case the recruited
fellow has family at the time of recruitment, s/he will also receive a family
allowance of 500 euros per month. All Institutional costs (e.g., Ph.D.
enrolment) are covered.
How to apply
If interested, please write to jobs@babelscape.com specifying [KNOWGRAPHS]
information/application for information or for application, respectively, in the
latter case including Europass format CV, a motivation letter, copies of your
diplomas and grades, previous employment descriptions (with references,
publications, TOEFL or IELTS and GRE scores) and up to 2 letters of
recommendations. Pre-selection will be made on the basis of CVs. The most
qualified applicants will be invited to a Skype interview and they will be
tested for their professional skills and abilities.
Babelscape is an equal opportunity employer. Applications from women are
particularly encouraged. Applications from disabled people with appropriate
suitability are explicitly welcome. All suitably qualified candidates will be
considered, irrespective of gender, race, culture or nationality.
Starting date and duration
The successful candidate will start as early as possible. The duration will be 3
years + extension to cover the whole Ph.D.
About Babelscape
Babelscape is a high-tech Sapienza startup company founded in 2016 focused on
multilingual Natural Language Processing with the main goal of enabling
multilinguality and text understanding in customers’ applications which deal
with text in different ways. Thanks to technological transfer from the
internationally renowned Natural Language Processing research group headed by
prof. Roberto Navigli at the Sapienza University of Rome, winner of two European
Research Council grants and of several international awards, the company places
itself on the market with very high professional profiles and the ability to
tailor its solutions to the customers' needs.
The company's core mission is to overcome the language barriers by enabling the
automatic processing of text independently of the input language, and distilling
and aggregating the information extracted across languages by means of a unified
large-scale multilingual knowledge repository and semantically-enhanced text
comprehension systems.
About Sapienza NLP
The Sapienza NLP Group in the Department of Computer Science at the Sapienza
University of Rome is a research team led by prof. Roberto Navigli which
currently includes around 20 members, among Ph.D. students and Postdocs. The
group focuses on multilingual Natural Language Understanding, including
multilingual lexical and sentence-level semantics, multilingual resource
creation (BabelNet, VerbAtlas, SensEmBERT, Train-O-Matic, and many others), with
state-of-the-art systems for multilingual and cross-lingual Word Sense
Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling, Semantic Parsing.
The group is currently funded by two EU projects, an ERC Consolidator Grant
(MOUSSE) and the ELEXIS European electronic lexicographic infrastructure, and an
Italian project (PerLIR), with several ongoing international collaborations.
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Roberto Navigli
Full Professor
Department of Computer Science
Sapienza University of Rome
Viale Regina Elena, 295b
00161 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 49918301
Home Page: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli
Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it
Co-founder of Babelscape srl
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