Curie Fellow ITN - Marie Sklodowska

The Web and Internet Science (WAIS) Research Group at the University of Southampton is offering a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher position to join the Cleopatra project.

With a rapidly increasing degree of integration among the European countries, a rising number of events, such as Paris shootings and Brexit, strongly impact the European community and the European digital economy across language and country borders. This development results in a vast amount of event-centric multilingual information available from different communities in the news, on the Web and in social media. Cross-lingual technologies to efficiently access, analyse and interact with this information are of utmost importance for various stakeholder groups across Europe, including digital humanities, memory institutions, publishers, media monitoring companies and journalists. The Cleopatra project offers a unique interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral research and training programme addressing these challenges.

The main objectives are to:

1.Facilitate advanced cross-lingual processing of event-centric textual and visual information on a large scale

2.Develop innovative methods for efficient and intuitive user access and interaction with multilingual information

3.Facilitate large-scale analytics of multilingual event-centric information and cross-cultural studies

4.Educate a group of top-level scientists with unique interdisciplinary and intersectoral expertise in multilingual information science who will be enabled to take leading roles in research and industry in the future

5.Establish an interdisciplinary curriculum for cross-lingual information analytics

The research topics addressed at the University of Southampton in the context of Cleopatra are at the intersection between social/crowd computing and language technologies. We are looking for a highly motivated Marie Curie Fellow to join Cleopatra and carry out research to build human-in-the-loop solutions for cross-lingual, entity-centric text tasks. Relevant research challenges include: motivating and incentivising participation; quality of crowdsourced data; new interfaces to collect and validate crowd answers e.g., speech, AR; augmenting knowledge graphs through crowdsourcing.

You will have a strong computer science or human computation interaction background (BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Web Science, HCI or related discipline), as well as outstanding data analysis, writing and communication skills. The ideal candidate will have solid programming skills e.g. Python and a good command of machine learning and other data science toolkits.

You will:

To be eligible, you must satisfy the mobility requirements of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions, explained at 1. As a primary objective of the EID program is international mobility, transnational mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) is a requirement for the researcher when taking up the appointment. Therefore, at the time of recruitment by UoS, the candidate must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to his/her recruitment under the project. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

Furthermore, at the time of recruitment you must not yet have been awarded your doctorate and must be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of your research career

The salary payable to the successful candidate will differ to the 'researcher unit cost' as set in the Grant Agreement. The unit cost is to cover all employment costs and Employer's liabilities to HMRC and any applicable employer's pension contributions must therefore be deducted before from the available budget before arriving at the amount available as salary. Under UK legislation the living allowance, mobility allowance and any applicable family allowance are all deemed taxable. The gross salary calculated after Employer's costs will then be subject to Employee's deductions for Tax, NI and Pension contributions where applicable. The sterling salary payable will also be affected by exchange rate fluctuations and will therefore be subject to six monthly reviews

University of Southampton is ranked in the top 1% of the universities worldwide with particular strengths in sciences and engineering.

We welcome informal enquiries: please contact Elena Simperl via email: E.Simperl@soton.ac.uk

This post is offered on a full time basis, fixed term for 3 years.

Questions?

If you need any assistance, please call Geraldine Lewis (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 3462. Please quote reference 1082318FP-2R on all correspondence

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.