[Corpora-List] Job opening: Doctoral Scholarship in Natural Language Processing for Educational Applications, Darmstadt University, Germany

[Torsten Zesch]

UKP Lab, UNIVERSITY OF DARMSTADT, GERMANY
Doctoral Scholarship in Natural Language Processing
for Educational Applications
Deadline: 23.03.2012 (open until filled) 


The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at the Computer Science 
Department at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) offers a 

Doctoral Scholarship "Using Natural Language Processing to Support 
Self-Directed Learning" 

The position is to be filled immediately. The scholarship has the 
duration of three years. It entails PhD research within the UKP Lab at 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as a close collaboration with 
the German Institute for Educational Research and Educational 
Information (DIPF) in Frankfurt. Besides the project work, the position 
offers the possibility of scientific qualification and training. 

The focus of the project is on investigating novel approaches to support 
self-directed learning with Natural Language Processing. This includes 
the automatic generation of test items, for example for language 
learning, controlling the difficulty level of generated test items, 
automatic assessment of students, and finally giving feedback of how to 
improve the learning. In order to allow conducting realistic user 
studies in order to estimate the effectiveness of self-directed learning 
based on Natural Language Processing, the PhD student will augment an 
existing Web-based prototype with support for learning scenarios. 

We are seeking a candidate with an excellent university degree in 
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or in a related field. The 
candidate should be committed to high-quality research. He or she should 
be willing to closely collaborate with computer scientists on the one 
hand and educational researchers on the other hand. The scholarship is 
EUR 1400 per month. 

Technische Universität Darmstadt is an autonomous university with a 
worldwide reputation in research and education, and seeking the answers 
to crucial challenges of the future. The university's focus on 
technology - from the perspectives of engineering, the natural 
sciences, the humanities and the social sciences - ranges from basic 
research to applications for daily life. The Ubiquitous Knowledge 
Processing Lab was founded in 2007 and has become an internationally 
recognized research group in the field of language technology and 
Computational Linguistics. The hiring process is subject to the law of 
the State of Hessen. The Technische Universität Darmstadt is an equal 
opportunity, affirmative action employer and encourages applications of 
qualified women. Handicapped persons will be preferentially considered 
when equally qualified. 

Candidates should submit their application along with the usual 
supporting documents (CV, academic transcripts, final thesis (can be 
electronic)) and a first project proposal (up to 3 pages, including 
abstract, overview of the intended research, research questions and 
methods, and example work plan), as well as two suggestions of 
professors as potential referees to 

zesch(a-t)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de 

Further information about the announced position can be obtained from 
Dr. Torsten Zesch, UKP Lab under the same email address.


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