Two student research assistants

Do you want to analyse what gender stereotypes Chalmers promotes, in their internal annd external communication? Maybe you are preparing for a degree project in NLP, data science or machine learning?

In this short 3-month project you will collect official and internal texts from Chalmers and University of Gothenburg (and other places). You will also prepare the texts for automatic analysis using machine learning, language models, classification, etc. The prepared texts can then be used in a research project - perhaps in your own master thesis project?

Information about the project
In the research project "Analysis of gender bias in texts from Chalmers" we will use state of the art natural language processing (NLP) technologies for investigating gender bias in texts produced at Chalmers, University of Gothenburg and other places. I.e., we will investigate whether gender is described or associated with different stereotypical features, formulations and/or descriptions.

More information about the project can be found here: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~peb/genie-project.html

Work description 
Your main task is to collect texts that have been produced at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, and to prepare them for automatic text analysis and machine learning. Other similar texts can also be collected, for example from authorities and organisations.

To analyse the texts themseleves are not part of this position. Instead there is a possibility to do a master thesis within the research project during spring 2021, where you can analyse the texts from different perspectives.

Type of employment
Part time temporary employment (20%).

Qualifications
You should be an active student in a master's program in computer science, data science, natural language technology, or similar. Alternatively, you have a bachelor's degree in a corresponding area.

You need to have good knowledge of and experience in machine learning, natural language processing, text classification, data science or similar, for example through completed courses at master's level. Meriting is also experience with text processing in, and converting between them, different computer formats such as plain text, XML, PDF, Word, etc.

Finally, in addition to good knowledge of English, you should also be able to read Swedish texts.

Chalmers continuously strives to be an attractive employer. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Our offer to you
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the dynamic city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Name, Ref 20200298  and be attached as PDF files, as below:

CV

Personal letter

Other documents (optional):
• Copies of completed education, grades etc. Two references that we can contact should be provided at a possible interview.

Please use the button at the bottom of the page to reach the application form.

Application deadline: 31st August, 2020

For questions, please contact:
Senior Lecturer Peter Ljunglöf, Department of Computer science and Engineering
E-mail: peter.ljunglof@cse.gu.se
Mobile: 0766-075561

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