Subject: [AUDITORY] PhD / post-doc position in ASR & NLP From: Phil Garner <0000013979c4c85e-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:39:11 +0200Dear Colleagues, There is a fully funded PhD (or possibly post-doc) position open at Idiap= =20 Research Institute on "ASR & NLP for structured selection interviews". The project is a collaboration between psychology departments at the=20 universities of Neuch=C3=A2tel and Lausanne, and the speech and audio pro= cessing=20 group at Idiap. The research will involve study of deep hierarchical architectures for se= mantic=20 inference. Building on state of the art approaches to speech and language= =20 processing, the pipeline is likely to make use of pre-trained self superv= ised=20 models (e.g., wav2vec2, BERT). The open questions include how to customis= e such=20 approaches to structured selection interviews, in particular the role of=20 storytelling. There will be ample opportunity for research in the component technologie= s,=20 which are all currently pertinent in the general machine learning landsca= pe. In=20 particular, we expect to make advances in the technological interfaces be= tween=20 component technologies, and in the humanist interfaces between the machin= e=20 learning practitioners and social scientists. For more information, and to apply, please follow this link: https://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs/job-10330 Idiap is located in Martigny in French speaking Switzerland, but function= s in=20 English and hosts many nationalities. PhD students are typically register= ed at=20 EPFL. All positions offer quite generous salaries. Martigny is a local ar= t,=20 culture and viticulture hub, and is close to all manner of skiing, hiking= and=20 mountain life. There are other open positions on Idiap's main page https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities Sincerely, --=20 Phil Garner http://www.idiap.ch/~pgarner