PhD Student Contract in Natural Language Processing – Automatic Generation of Explanations for Multiword Expressions

The University of Lorraine, Nancy, France is offering a PhD student contract in Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will join the ATILF research unit and work on the STAR-FLE project, which focuses on computer-assisted language teaching and aims to facilitate text comprehension for learners of French as a foreign language. The thesis will focus on the automatic generation of explanations for multiword expressions, which can pose problems for learners due to their non-compositionality. The candidate should have a Master’s degree in computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science or cognitive science, and should have strong programming skills and knowledge of recent models of natural language processing. The application deadline is July 11, 2024. For more information, please visit this link or contact Mathieu Constant at Mathieu.Constant at univ-lorraine.fr.