Group Leader in Natural Language Processing

Kontrast ändern - The Faculty of Technology has the following job opening: - Group leader in Natural Language Processing (Postdoc) - ID**:Wiss24460** - starting: as soon as possible - fulltime - salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L - fixed-term - The "Semantic Databases" research group headed by Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano conducts research in the field of semantic technologies. The group researches methods of automatic language processing (NLP), in particular in the areas of information extraction, question answering, temporal and common sense reasoning. In addition, the group conducts research on topics of knowledge representation, especially ontologies, and develops new methods for entity linking, link prediction and ontology alignment. The group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can independently set up and lead a group on Natural Language Processing. The group leader is expected to build up an independent research profile in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to publish the research work at international conferences (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI). The research of the group leader should be compatible with the research topics of the Semantic Computing WG. Possible research topics include: - Robustness and security of large language models for NLP - Ethical aspects and FAIRness in NLP procedures - Fine-tuning and transfer learning for the adaptation of LLMs - LLMs for information extraction - Auto-ML for LLMs - Argument Mining - Common Sense Knowledge for NLP - Temporal Reasoning for NLP - [Other thematic orientations are possible by arrangement.]- Your Tasks - research tasks (75 %) - research in the field of Natural Language Processing - development of new methods and procedures in the field of NLP - publication of research results - presentation of results at international conferences - acquisition of third-party funding - participation in peer reviewing, conference organization, etc. Employment is conducive to academic qualification. We offer - salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L - fixed-term (3 years - extension by a further 3 years possible if necessary) (- 2 (1) sentence 2 of the WissZeitVG; in accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may differ in individual cases) - fulltime - internal and external training opportunities - variety of health, consulting and prevention services - reconcilability of family and work - flexible working hours - job ticket for regional public transport network, good transport connection - collegial working environment - open and pleasant working atmosphere - exciting, varied tasks - Your Profile We expect - completed scientific university degree - excellent (at least magna cum laude) doctorate in the field computer science, computational linguistics, data science or a related field - excellent publication record at international conferences (e. g. ACL, EMNLP, CoNLL, AAAI, COLING) - international visibility and good networking in the community - convincing research and teaching concept - independent, autonomous and committed working style - strong organizational and coordination skills - cooperative and team-oriented working style - gender and diversity competence - Preferred experience and skills - experience in the acquisition of third-party funding - experience in project management - Application Procedure **Contact** Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano **Postal Address** Universität Bielefeld Technische Fakultät / AG Semantische Datenbanken Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano Postfach 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld- At Bielefeld University on request positions can be carried out with reduced working hours as long as this does not conflict with official needs. - open as PDF**Datenschutzeinstellung**: Diese Webseite verwendet Cookies und ähnliche Technologien. Einige davon sind essentiell, um die Funktionalität der Website zu gewährleisten, während andere uns helfen, die Website und Ihre Erfahrung zu verbessern. Falls Sie zustimmen, verwenden wir Cookies und Daten auch, um Ihre Interaktionen mit unserer Webseite zu messen. Sie können Ihre Einwilligung jederzeit unter Datenschutzerklärung einsehen und mit der Wirkung für die Zukunft widerrufen. Auf der Seite finden Sie auch zusätzliche Informationen zu den verwendeten Cookies und Technologien. **Alle akzeptieren** **Nur notwendige Cookies zulassen** - Impressum- Datenschutz- Barrierefreiheit