PhD fellowship in Natural Language Processing

PhD Project in Cultural Reasoning with Language Models The AI Section at the Department of Computer Science invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in computational modelling and evaluation of cultural interpretation with language models. The position is part of the research project “CuRe:

• Cultural Reasoning for Responsible Language Model Development” (DFF project 5334-00088B), funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.
• The expected start date is February 1st, 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.
• The project Language models can produce fluent interpretations of texts while obscuring the cultural assumptions, uncertainty and alternative readings underlying their answers.
• CuRe investigates how language models understand and reason about culture, ambiguity and interpretation, and how these capabilities can be evaluated and improved to support responsible language model development.
• Literary texts provide a demanding testbed: their interpretation depends on historical and cultural knowledge, close attention to textual evidence and the ability to accommodate several plausible readings.
• The PhD candidate will develop computational methods and evaluation resources for culturally grounded interpretation1 …