NLP Early-Stage Researcher positions at Babelscape + PhD at Sapienza, Rome, Italy

(apologies for cross-postings)


*NLP Early-Stage Researcher position at Babelscape + Ph.D. at Sapienza
University, Rome, Italy*



This is a* full-time *EU-funded, 3-year position to* work at Babelscape *(
http://babelscape.com), a highly-technological company based in Rome,
Italy, at the intersection between research and industry-focused on
the *construction
and maintenance of multilingual lexicalized knowledge graph*.  The position
is limited to the duration of the qualification procedure in the field of
knowledge graphs with the *EU project KnowGraphs*.


The *candidate will also start a Ph.D. in 2020 *in the *Department of
Computer Science *at the* Sapienza University of Rome *under the
supervision of prof. Roberto Navigli
<http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli/>, leading an
*internationally-renowned
group *of 15+ researchers and Ph.D. students in *multilingual Natural
Language Processing*. (see the ERC MOUSSE project
<http://mousse-project.org> for recent research outputs).


*Duties and responsibilities*

The selected candidate will be responsible for carrying out research on
extracting and interlinking *multilingual lexicographic knowledge
graphs. *During
the project *the researcher will be hosted at a partner academic
organization* for two *secondments* (2+4 months) in order to work on a
specific topic. The host organization is fixed.



*Profile requirements*



   - M.Sc. in computer science, computational linguistics or linguistics.
   - Programming skills in Java or Python.
   - Knowledge of deep learning architectures and frameworks (PyTorch,
   Tensorflow) is a plus.
   - Excellent communication skills.
   - The candidate may not have resided or carried out his/her main
   activity in Italy for more than 12 months in the last 3 years.
   - The candidate must be, at the time of recruitment, *in the first four
   years of her/his research career* (measured from the date when the
   candidate obtained the degree which would formally entitle her/him to
   embark on a doctorate).



*Remuneration*

The selected researcher will receive a living allowance (EUR 3270 gross per
month) and a mobility allowance (EUR 600 gross per month). In case the
recruited fellow has family at the time of recruitment, s/he will also
receive a family allowance of EUR 500 gross per month. All Institutional
costs (e.g., Ph.D. enrolment) are covered.


*How to apply and application process*


If interested, please write to jobs@babelscape.com specifying [KNOWGRAPHS]
application for position 1 including Europass format CV, a motivation
letter, copies of your diplomas and grades, previous employment
descriptions (with references, publications, TOEFL or IELTS and GRE scores)
and up to 2 letters of recommendations. Pre-selection will be made on the
basis of CVs. Most qualified applicants will be invited to a Skype
interview and they will be tested for their professional skills and
abilities.



Babelscape is an equal opportunity employer. Applications from women are
particularly encouraged. Applications from disabled people with appropriate
suitability are explicitly welcome. All suitably qualified candidates will
be considered, irrespective of gender, race, culture or nationality.


*Starting date*


The successful candidates will start as early as possible. Duration will be
3 years.


*About Babelscape *
Babelscape is a Sapienza startup company founded in 2016 focused on
*multilingual
Natural Language Processing *with the main goal of *enabling
multilinguality and text understanding *in customers’ applications which
deal with text in different ways. Thanks to technological transfer from the
internationally renowned Natural Language Processing research group headed
by prof. Roberto Navigli at the Sapienza University of Rome, *winner of two
European Research Council grants and of several international awards*, we
place ourselves on the market with very high professional profiles and the
ability to tailor our solutions to the customers' needs.

The company's core mission is to *overcome the language barriers *by
enabling the automatic processing of text *independently of the input
language*, and distilling and aggregating the information extracted across
languages by means of a unified large-scale multilingual knowledge
repository and *semantically-enhanced text comprehension systems*. Visit
our website <https://babelscape.com/>.




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Roberto Navigli
Dipartimento di Informatica
Sapienza University of Rome
Viale Regina Elena 295b (building G, second floor)
00161 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 49918301
Home Page: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli
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