34.1669, Support: Deaf Sign Language; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Subject: 34.1669, Support: Deaf Sign Language; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Date: 26-May-2023
From: Josep Quer [josep.quer at upf.edu]
Subject: Deaf Sign Language; Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra


Institution/Organization: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department: Information and Communication Technologies
Web Address: https://www.upf.edu/web/etic/

Level: PhD

Duties: Research Teaching Project Work

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language
Processing for Sign Languages, Sign Language Recognition, Sign
Language Translation, and Sign Language Processing Applications
Required Language(s): Deaf Sign Language

Description:

Open position for a predoctoral researcher in Natural Language
Processing for Sign Languages.

Departing from our work on Sign Language Translation, this proposed
project aims at addressing the following objectives :
 - Implement data collection, linguistic annotation, and data
augmentation mechanisms to increase the availability of SL resources
 - Investigate current architectures for Sign Language Recognition
(SLR) and adapt them to available datasets
 - Develop Natural Language Processing (e.g. PoS tagging, parsing,
sense disambiguation) for the languages of the project
 - Adopt hybrid approaches to Sign Language Translation combining
Machine Learning and Linguistic Information
 - Implement technological demonstrators such as for example
Information Extraction for SLs.
The hired PhD fellow will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team
on these objectives.

This position is co-funded by the PhD fellowship program of the
Department of Information and Communication Technologies at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (DTIC-UPF), and the María de Maeztu Strategic
Research Programme at DTIC-UPF on Artificial and Natural Intelligence
for ICT and beyond. Admission to the PhD program of the Department of
Information and Communication Technologies at UPF is a prerequisite to
enjoy the contract.

This position includes a teaching commitment load of 45 hours per
academic year.
Starting date (planned): October 2023
Gross monthly salary: 1.680€.

The URL to access additional information and submit your application
is listed below.

Application Deadline: 30-Jun-2023

Web Address for Applications:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/109733

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



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