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PhD fellowship in Natural Language Processing
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Develops computational methods and evaluation resources for culturally grounded interpretation with language models, in collaboration with researchers in natural language processing and literary studies.
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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 …
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