[Corpora-List] PhD Scholarship / Deep Document Summarization: Combining Text and Images

[Horacio Saggion]

In the context of the PhD InPhiNIT La Caixa  program associated to  the
Maria de Maeztu Strategic Research  Program, we are looking for a
highly  motivated
PhD candidate  in the area of Natural Language Processing to work in a  project
for the application of deep learning techniques to the summarization of
multimodal documents (texts and images).

The PhD will be carried out at the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems
Lab part of the TALN research group of the  Department of  Information and
Communication Technologies  (DTIC),  Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in
Barcelona.

The candidate should have experience in Natural Language Processing with a
solid knowledge of statistics, mathematics, computer programming, and
machine learning; in particular knowledge of current methods in Deep
Learning would be highly appreciated. Experience in Information Extraction,
Text Summarization, or related areas would be appreciated.

Brief description of the project:

https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion/deep-document-summarization-combining-text-and-images

Benefits for the fellow:

*   3-year contract

*   Funding per fellow: 115.092 Euros

*   104.400 Euros (34.800 Euros per year) including salary, employee social
security contribution, income taxes and all compulsory employers’
contributions.

*   10.692 Euros (3.564 Euros per year) for research costs such as
conferences and workshops attendance, short-stays, consumables and
intellectual property costs, among others.

*    PhD Award of 7.500 Euros will be granted to researchers that submit
their thesis within 6 months after the end of the fellowship.

*    Complementary training programme.

How and where to apply (InPhiNIT program):

https://obrasociallacaixa.org/en/investigacion-y-becas/programa-de-becas-de-posgrado/inphinit/programme-description

Deadline for applications: 6th February 2019

DTIC recruitment: Sept/Nov 2019

The Laboratory:

https://www.upf.edu/es/web/taln/lastus-presentation

The TALN research group:

https://www.upf.edu/es/web/taln

Maria de Maeztu Strategic Research at DTIC:

https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/description

If you are interested in this position please first contact Prof. Horacio
Saggion for more information about the project.

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Prof. Horacio Saggion <https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion>
Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab
<https://www.upf.edu/es/web/taln/lastus-presentation>
TALN / DTIC
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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