Postdoctoral Position: Latent Variable Models for Creative Language Generation

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Postdoctoral Position: Latent Variable Models for Creative Language Generation Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): L'organizzazione internazionale offre una posizione di ricercatore post-dottorato per sviluppare metodi di inferenza variazionale per modelli di linguaggio basati su transformer, con sede in un ambiente di ricerca finanziato dall'ERC. Il candidato ideale possiede un dottorato in elaborazione del linguaggio naturale, machine learning, linguistica computazionale o un campo correlato, con pubblicazioni peer-reviewed. Le mansioni principali includono la collaborazione con dottorandi, la pubblicazione di risultati in conferenze internazionali e la guida di ricercatori junior. È richiesta una solida esperienza in deep learning per l'elaborazione del linguaggio naturale, competenze di programmazione in Python e PyTorch, e una buona conoscenza dell'inglese. La posizione è a tempo pieno per 2 anni, senza obblighi di insegnamento. Develop variational inference methods for transformer-based language models, informed by the latent structure of tensor factorization models. Investigate the interpretability of the resulting latent space, and its exploitation for creative language generation (metaphor, style). Collaborate closely with, and provide day-to-day guidance to, the project’s PhD students (working on tensor factorization and constraint-based neural generation). Publish in top-level natural language processing and machine learning venues, and present the project’s results at international conferences. You hold a PhD in natural language processing, machine learning, computational linguistics, or a related field, with peer-reviewed publications in the domain. You have a strong background in deep learning for natural language processing; experience with latent variable models and/or variational inference is a strong plus. You have excellent programming skills (Python, PyTorch) and experience with large-scale experimentation on GPU infrastructure. You have experience in guiding junior researchers, or the ambition to develop such experience. You exhibit excellent proficiency in English and good oral and written communication skills. We offer a full-time postdoctoral position for 2 years. You will be able to conduct scientific research within a high-level, ERC-funded research environment, with access to ample computing infrastructure and funding for conference travel. You will have considerable research freedom to orient the research based on your own background and vision. The position is research-only, without teaching obligations. For more information please contact Prof. dr. Tim Van de Cruys, mail: tim.vandecruys@kuleuven.be . Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).