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* Title: Research Associate in Online Toxicity Mitigation
<div>* Location: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK</div>
<div>* Duration: full-time position, 12-36 months</div>
<div>* Deadline: 22 July 2022</div>
<div>* Contact: Prof. Verena Rieser [mailto:v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk]</div>
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<div>This is an exciting opportunity to work within multi-disciplinary team to develop novel toxicity mitigation techniques for a project funded by the UK Research Council to detect and mitigate online Gender Based Violence. You will be working with teams of
researchers working in NLP, Social Science and Education. The project is hosted at the Interaction Lab (<a href="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab" title="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab">http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab</a>), one of the
biggest research groups in Conversational AI, and is in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and third sector charities specialising in online abuse and GBV. </div>
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<div>We are looking for candidates with a PhD and expertise in neural approaches to natural language generation, or closely related fields, with a proven publication track record in ACL* venues etc.</div>
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<div>To apply, please follow the instructions here: <a href="https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/2144/?utm_medium=jobshare" title="https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/2144/?utm_medium=jobshare">
https://enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/2144/?utm_medium=jobshare</a></div>
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PS: If you are at #acl2022nlp #ACL2022 make sure you chat to Gavin Abercrombie <G.Abercrombie@hw.ac.uk> or DM me to find out more!<br>
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