CLEOPATRA: 15 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ESR (PhD positions) 1564 views

CLEOPATRA ITN, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project is offering a unique interdisciplinary and cross sectoral research and training programme, which will explore how we can begin to analyse and understand the major events that influence and shape our lives and our societies.

Locations: Germany, UK, Slovenia, Netherlands, Croatia

Starting date: July 1st, 2019 (at latest)

Study fields: Computer Science and Digital Humanities.

Duration: The positions are offered full-time for three years (36 months).

Requirements:

• Candidates must have a strong background in Computer Science or Digital Humanities (an outstanding MSc degree in the corresponding discipline).
• Familiarity with one or more of the following areas is of advantage: Semantic Technologies, Human Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction and Machine Learning.
• Good proficiency in English is expected; knowledge of further European languages is of advantage.
• At the time of recruitment, the potential candidate “must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.
• According to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie rules, Early-Stage Researchers shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, “be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree”.

Individual Research Projects

• ESR1 PhD enrolment: LUH; Project Title: Fact extraction and cross-lingual alignment (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)
• ESR2 PhD enrolment: LUH; Project Title: Interactive user access models to cross-lingual information (WP5 – Hybrid computation, user interaction and question answering)
• ESR3 PhD enrolment: SOTON; Project Title: Crowd quality and training in hybrid multilingual information processing and analytics (WP5 – Hybrid computation, user interaction and question answering)
• ESR4 PhD enrolment: SOTON; Project Title: Incentives design for hybrid multilingual information processing and analytics (WP5 – Hybrid computation, user interaction and question answering)
• ESR5 PhD enrolment: UBO; Project Title: Fact validation across multilingual text corpora (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)
• ESR6 PhD enrolment: UBO; Project Title: Interactive multilingual question answering (WP5 – Hybrid computation, user interaction and question answering)
• ESR7 PhD enrolment: TIB; Project Title: Relations of textual and visual Information (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)
• ESR8 PhD enrolment: TIB; Project Title: Contextualisation of images in multilingual sources (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)
• ESR9 PhD enrolment: UoL; Project Title: National and transnational media coverage of European parliamentary elections, 2004-2014 (WP6 –  Event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies)
• ESR10 PhD enrolment: UoL; Project Title: Nationalism, internationalism and sporting identity: the London and Rio Olympics (WP6 – Event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies)
• ESR11 PhD enrolment: JSI; Project Title: Information propagation with barriers (WP6 –  Event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies)
• ESR12 PhD enrolment: JSI; Project Title: Cross-lingual news reporting bias (WP6 – Event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies)
• ESR13 PhD enrolment: UvA ; Project Title: Multilingual Wikipedia as ‘first draft of history’ (WP6 – Event-centric cross-lingual analytics and cross-cultural studies)
• ESR14 PhD enrolment: FFZG; Project Title: NLP for under-resourced languages (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)
• ESR15 PhD enrolment: FFZG; Project Title: Cross-lingual sentiment detection (WP4 – Event-centric cross-lingual Information processing)