Information Technology is seeking applications for a Research Fellow in
Language Technology.
The Research Fellow will work on the ARC funded Discovery Project
“Accessible Data Exploration and Analysis for Blind People”, led by
researchers in the Department of Human-Centred Computing and the Department
of Data Science and AI, in collaboration with a partner investigator from
Microsoft Research. This project aims to develop new assistive technologies
that will enable blind people to explore and analyse data more readily. The
project expects to generate new knowledge in the fields of assistive
technology, multimodal interfaces, dialogue systems and natural language
understanding and generation. The expected outcome of the project is an
innovative conversational agent that uses a mix of speech and refreshable
tactile graphics to communicate with blind users and proactively assist
them with data analysis tasks. This should provide significant benefits, as
it will overcome barriers to data analysis by blind people that currently
restrict access to health and personal data and limit employment
opportunities.
The Research Fellow will work closely with leading scholars in the field to
develop and investigate Language Technology, focusing on the development of
a Dialogue Manager, a Multimodal interpreter and a Multimodal generator.
The Research Fellow will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge
research either as part of a team or independently, producing conference
papers and publications and participating in professional activities such
as conferences and seminars.
A PhD qualification in Dialogue Management, Natural Language Understanding
or Natural Language Generation (in particular, generating explanations) is
required; competency in the other two areas is desirable. The successful
candidate will have demonstrated experience in traditional and neural
techniques for Natural Language Processing, development of conversational
agents, and designing and implementing user studies.
For more details see
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/657738/research-fellow-in-language-technology