PhD student position in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Semantic Technologies, and NLP, Hannover (Germany)

The L3S Research Center is offering a PhD Researcher position in collaboration with Petanux GmBH, in the areas of Machine Learning, Data Mining, Semantic Technologies and Natural Language Processing.  This position offers a unique interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research and training programme, which will explore how we can begin to analyse and understand the major events that influence and shape our lives and our societies. It will facilitate advanced cross-lingual processing of textual and visual information related to key contemporary events at scale, and will develop innovative methods for efficient and intuitive user access to and interaction with multilingual information.

The position is for three years (36 months) in the form of PhD scholarship. Your research will focus on selected topics in the following areas: Information extraction, Cross-lingual information alignment, Interactive access to cross-lingual information, Question answering and dialog systems, Large-scale data analytics - Knowledge graphs and RDF, or Machine Learning. Reference nr: PNX-L3S-1901.