Job Description
You hold a Master’s degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, mathematics, or equivalent education. You have a solid background in machine learning and an affinity with linear algebra; experience with tensor methods is a plus. You have excellent programming skills (preferably Python, including the NumPy/SciPy ecosystem). You have a keen interest in language and linguistics, in particular lexical semantics and figurative language. You exhibit excellent proficiency in English and good oral and written communication skills. Creativity pervades human language use, yet the mechanisms behind it are poorly understood, and current language technology shows little true creativity. The ERC project TENACITY develops computational models of language that exhibit creativity, combining interpretable tensor factorization methods with neural language models. This PhD position focuses on the tensor-based strand of the pr...