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CHF 49'500 - 75'000

USI – Università della Svizzera italiana · Lugano (TI)

Categoria: phd Contratto: other Salario: CHF 49'500 - 75'000

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Posizione aperta presso Università della Svizzera italiana.

Dipartimento/Istituto: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Ruolo: PhD student positions.

Posizione aperta presso Università della Svizzera italiana.
Dipartimento/Istituto: Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics – Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

The institutes invite applications for two fully funded Ph.D. positions in natural language processing and machine learning for conducting research in the project entitled SATURNA.
The project SATURNA (https://www.saturna.ch/) is a large-scale four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
It is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between the University of Bern, EPFL, Idiap Research Institute and the National University of Singapore, with specialists in NLP, graph deep learning, knowledge-enhanced AI, computational biology and translational science.
The role of the team of Prof.
Lonneke van der Plas (https://usi.to/bkks) is to draw parallels between text sequences and RNA sequences, thereby leveraging advances made in the NLP field to learn informative representations of RNA sequences.
Vice versa, handling the intricacies of RNA, such as extremely long-distance dependencies, context-dependency, structure, function etc. sheds new light on assumptions made in NLP models, that will be tested for their applicability on language. pagina 2 / 3 The Ph.D.
Positions The doctoral students will be enrolled in the PhD programme of the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society or in the PhD programme of the Faculty of Informatics, depending on suitability of the candidates’ profile and faculty organisation.
The doctoral student will work under the scientific supervision of Prof.

Full understanding of the foundations of transformer-based language models Strong programming skills High interest in cross-disciplinary work
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Full understanding of the foundations of transformer-based language models
Strong programming skills
High interest in cross-disciplinary work
In the online form, you will be asked to declare that you have read and understood our privacy policy.
Applications should con…

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