29.4576, Support: English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Subject: 29.4576, Support: English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:45:43
From: Horacio Saggion [horacio.saggion at upf.edu]
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

 Institution/Organization: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
Department: DTIC 
Web Address: https://www.upf.edu/es/web/taln 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

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-po
sgrado/inphinit/programme-description 

Deadline for applications: 6th February 2019

DTIC recruitment: see below

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.
 

Application Deadline: 01-Feb-2019 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof Horacio Saggion 
	C/Tanger 122 
	Barcelona BCN 08018 
	Spain 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://www.upf.edu/web/horacio-saggion/deep-document-summarization-combining-text-and-images 

Contact Information: 
	Prof Horacio Saggion 
	horacio.saggion at upf.edu  


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