Job: Researcher in Natural Language Understanding and Text Mining @ IDSiA (CH)

Job: Researcher in Natural Language Understanding and Text Mining @ IDSiA (CH)

Feb 19, 2018

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, www.idsia.ch) is seeking a Researcher in the area of Natural Language Understanding and Text Mining. The occupancy degree is 100% and the duration of the contract is 2 years.

Duties:

1. Research on cutting-edge methods for natural language understanding (probabilistic language modeling, keyword extraction, text summarization) and text mining (text classification, word embedding, topic models);
2. Publication in top journals and conferences in the field;
3. Implementation of such algorithms to scale on big data;
4. Coordination of a team of developers on projects with companies on related topics.

Requirements:

1. The position is for a young researcher who has already obtained a PhD on a topic relevant to Natural Language Processing and/or Text Mining;
2. Master in informatics or other areas with a strong emphasis on computation;
3. Strong publications record;
4. Excellent programming skills and deep knowledge of libraries for natural language processing;
5. Proficiency in written and spoken English;
6. Capability of leading projects carried out with industrial partners on automatic analysis of documents;
7. Communication and collaboration skills.

Optional but preferential:

1. Good knowledge of machine learning algorithms and tools;
2. Good knowledge of written and spoken Italian, or willingness to learn it in a short time.

We offer:

1. A two-year position (degree of occupancy 100%), with the possibility of prolongation;
2. International working environment;
3. Collaboration with a strong team of researchers in Machine Learning and Statistics;
4. Possibility of development of own professional and scientific skills as well as career progression;
5. Attractive salary, in line with Swiss standards and the candidate’s experience.

Applicants should submit the following documents, written in English:

1. Curriculum vitae;
2. List of exams and grades obtained during the Bachelor and the Master of Science;
3. List of three references (with e-mail addresses);
4. Brief statement on how their research interests fit the topics above (1-2 pages);
5. Publications list and possibly a link to the thesis.

Applications should be submitted by 28 February 2018 through the online form at the address: application form.

For further information see: here.

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