The IXA group invites applications for PhD studentships starting Fall 2019, for a period of three to four years.
The PhD positions are funded by the Spanish government in a competitive call. We are ready to host and supervise the candidate, and to assist with the PhD project and application procedure. The studentships cover tuition fees and a stipend of 16,422€ per year on average (1,173€ in 14 monthly payments).
Some possible topics for the PhD, among others, are the following:
- Neural Machine Translation. Applying Deep Learning techniques for
unsupervised Machine Translation to improve MT with scarce resources
in specific domains.
- Multilingual Text Acquisition. Automatic development of semantic
processors leveraging parallel data: (i) using word alignments
traditionally used in MT (ii) using continuous word representations.
- Dialogue Systems for QA: Use previous experiences to train dialogue
management modules of chatbots, based on deep learning techniques,
with applications to community question answering.
- Vision and Language. Multimodal representations for richer semantic
interpretations: using grounded multimodal representation for word and
sentences that combine textual and visual features to acquire
background knowledge information.
- Neural Network Architectures for semantic parsing, including Word
Sense Disambiguation, Natural Language Inference (NLI and STS
datasets), with applications to community question answering.
- Domain Adaptation: Explore automatic techniques to improve the
performance of NLP tools in legal and medical domains, with emphasis
on information extraction
- Discourse and Pragmatics: Coreference and Opinion Mining. / Event
identification. /Discourse Structure and Summarization.
In order to be eligible, you must fulfill the following requirements:
- 240 ECTS already completed with excellent grades in a computer science
or linguistics related bachelor degree (obtained after January
2015). The degree certificate has to be standardized following the
official Spanish Government procedure. Please check the following URL
for further information:
https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/homologazioak/home
- To be in the final year of an official title (master degree) that
gives access to the PhD program.
- For non Spanish citizens, to possess an official Spanish Certificate
equivalent to B2 level, according to Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages.
The procedure is the following:
- Apply to the grant's first phase by filling the electronic form at
https://sede.educacion.gob.es/sede/login/inicio.jjsp?idConvocatoria=1147
you will be required to provide your degree certificate as well as a
language certificate (if you are not a Spanish citizen).
- The application deadline is 16th of 29th October, 14:00 CET.
- If you are selected for the second phase, please contact us at
<a.soroa at ehu.eus> for a skype interview and talk about further
steps (tesis project, supervisor, etc).
Additional information **********************
Please see the following URL for more details about the call (in Spanish):