| More Information: | Subject to the funding decision by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF), the noFake project has a vacancy for a Researcher/PhD student
(Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in/Doktorand*in) in the group of Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Tatjana Scheffler. Prof. Scheffler’s research group Digital Forensic
Linguistics consists of a fast growing team of linguists, computational
linguists, and computer scientists, whose research focuses primarily on the
analysis of conversations in social media.
The project „noFake: AI supported assistance system for crowdsourced detection
of digital information“ plans to combine the competencies of humans and
machines in order to enable lay crowd workers with minimal training to perform
the essential steps of fact checking. We will develop a machine learning system
that will view large data sets, presort text and image data, and annotate and
contextualize it for the human fact checkers. The project will be carried out in
collaboration between teams from Ruhr-University Bochum, CORRECTIV, and TU
Dortmund.
Duties:
• extraction of linguistic features supporting the fact checks
• development of computational linguistic methods for detecting and
visualizing claims and of linguistic indicators of disinformation
• integration of the computational linguistic methods and analyses in the AI
based system
• collaboration in the interdisciplinary team
• general project work (e.g., publications, presentations at conferences,
organization of events)
Requirements:
• completed graduate degree (M.Sc. or M.A.) in computational linguistics or a
related subject
• knowledge of language processing (NLP), incl. machine learning (statistical
methods, deep learning)
• programming skills (e.g., Python)
• ability to work in German and English
• interest in (computational) linguistic research
• willingness to participate in an interdisciplinary team
The position will allow for the candidate’s own scientific further
qualification (PhD). If funding at the time of hiring is provided exclusively by
external third-party funding sources, there is no teaching obligation for the
employee.
This is a 80% position (TV-L E13 of the public pay scale).
(https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/allg/)
The position is available from January 01, 2022 or as soon as possible
thereafter. The project ends November 30, 2024.
Are you interested? Please submit your meaningful application including the
following documents: (1) cover letter including motivation for the position, (2)
curriculum vitae including publications and presentations if applicable, (3)
transcript of academic records, (4) copy of the master's thesis, (5) name and
email addresses of two referees. Please send your application via email (as a
single pdf file) to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (tatjana.scheffler@rub.de)
by November 22, 2021. If you have any questions about the project or the
position, please feel free to contact Tatjana Scheffler directly in advance.
Interviews will probably take place in November via video conference (Zoom).
Travel expenses, accommodation costs and loss of earnings for interviews will
not be reimbursed.
At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, we particularly want to promote the careers of
women in areas in which they are underrepresented and are therefore very pleased
to receive applications from female applicants. We also welcome applications
from suitable severely disabled applicants and applicants with equal status.
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her)
GB 5/157
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik
Universitätsstraße 150
44780 Bochum
Germany
Mail: tatjana.scheffler@rub.de
Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/
https://tscheffler.github.io/
Tel.: +49 234 32-21471
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