There is a fully funded PhD position open at Idiap Research Institute on 'Speech
recognition and natural language processing for digital interviews'.

At a high level, we are interested in how candidates for jobs respond in structured
selection interviews; in particular how they are able to tell stories about past work
situations. More concretely, we will investigate speech recognition architectures
suitable for such interviews, and natural language processing solutions that are able to
infer the higher level semantics required by our collaborators in the social sciences.

A-priori, given that it is the higher level semantics that are of interest, we expect to
make use of recent lexicon-free approaches to speech recognition. We also expect to draw
from the rapidly advancing language modelling field with tools such as BERT and its
successors. There will be ample opportunity for research in the component technologies,
which are all currently pertinent in the general machine learning landscape. In
particular, we expect to make advances in the technological interfaces between component
technologies, and in the humanist interfaces between the machine learning practitioners
and social scientists.

For more information, and to apply, please follow this link:
 http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs/job-10312

Idiap is located in Martigny in French speaking Switzerland, but functions in English and
hosts many nationalities.  PhD students are registered at EPFL. All positions offer quite
generous salaries. Martigny has a distillery and a micro-brewery and is close to all
manner of skiing, hiking and mountain life.

There are other open positions on Idiap's main page
 https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities