🇩🇰 PhD Position in Tokenization-free Language Processing at University of Copenhagen

Location: Denmark
Deadline: 2026-03-08

Apply by March 8, 2026, for a 36-month PhD fellowship in NLP at University of Copenhagen, focusing on tokenization-free language processing.

A 36-month Ph.D. fellowship is available at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science, focusing on developing language models that process written languages as images.

The project, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, aims to facilitate effective transfer to lower-resource languages by leveraging visual similarities between written languages.

• Research environment: International and diverse NLP section.
• Location: Science Campus, Copenhagen.
• Duration: 36 months.
• Start date: September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Informal inquiries: Contact Desmond Elliott at de@di.ku.dk.

Apply by March 8, 2026, through this link.

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