荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学2023年招聘博士后（计算论证与信息质量）

阿姆斯特丹大学（荷文：Universiteit van Amsterdam；英文：University of Amsterdam，简称UvA）创建于1632年，是一所坐落在荷兰首都阿姆斯特丹的世界级顶尖研究型大学。它是全球大学高研院联盟、Universitas 21、欧洲首都大学联盟、欧洲研究型大学联盟成员。学校共诞生了六位诺贝尔奖获得者，五位荷兰首相，七位斯宾诺莎奖得主和一位图灵奖得主。知名校友包括欧洲理事会主席夏尔·米歇尔，Python之父吉多·范罗苏姆，图灵奖得主艾兹格·迪科斯彻，诺贝尔物理学奖得主范德华和世界国际象棋联合会主席马克斯·尤伟等。

Postdoctoral Researcher Computational Argumentation and Information Quality

University of Amsterdam

Postdoctoral Researcher Computational Argumentation and Information Quality

Faculty/Services: Faculty of Humanities

Educational level: PhD

Function type: Academic Staff

Closing date: 7 April 2023

Vacancy number: 11184

Are you interested in computational argumentation and reasoning? Do you have experience with working with formal approaches to the study of argumentation and information quality?

The Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation ( ILLC ) currently has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research position as part of the broader field Human(e) AI. Within this field the focus is on data and platforms for social, cultural and economic innovation. ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

What are you going to do?

With current developments in AI, the field of Computational Argumentation is rapidly growing. Recently, researchers have developed procedural methods for identifying the types of arguments, e.g., ‘argument from cause', ‘pragmatic argument', or ‘argument from expert opinion', which can be used to annotate natural argumentative discourse and provide a basis for fine-grained argument reasoning. The appointed postdoc will contribute to this line of research on argument-checking and information quality by developing (computational) linguistic models of argument type identifcation and evaluation.

Tasks of the appointed postdoc will include:

Modeling linguistic features of various argument types relevant for determining the validity and strength of the underlying reasoning;

Combining existing work on the identification and evaluation of arguments by project research group members of the ILLC (EPS unit), ACLC (LANCAR group) and CWI (Human-Centered Data Analytics group);

Supporting the development of an ontology for argument modeling and designing crowdsourcing tasks for argument type identification and evaluation.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

conducting research, presenting intermediate research results at workshops and conferences and publishing single- and /or co-authored peer reviewed articles;

participating in meetings of the project research group and developing a shared dataset, ontology, and prototype crowdsourcing task;

co-organising knowledge dissemination activities.

What do we require?

a PhD in Computational Argumentation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Data science (for the latter, acquired expertise in Argumentation Theory is an asset);

excellent research skills demonstrated by a track record of publishing in high-ranking journals and/or with leading presses or a demonstrable capacity to develop such a record;

a strong cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research;

enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audience;

excellent command of English.

What can we offer you?

The Postdoc researcher will be appointed at the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and will conduct the research in Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. The employment contract will be for one year. Contingent on a positive performance evaluation the contract will be extended with one year. The employment contract is for 30,4-38 hours a week. Preferred starting date is as soon as possible after the closing of the procedure.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and relevant experience, ranges between