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Thursday, September 07, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

6-44 (2023-06-20) PhD position @ University of Applied Sciences, Hochschule Hannover, Germany
  

 

 

In a joint research project *VidQA*, our collaboration partner from University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Christian Wartena, HsH Hochschule Hannover) offers a full position (three years, as soon as possible) for a PhD student:

 

*VidQA* is a joint research project of the Institute for Applied Data Science Hannover (DATA|H) of the HsH, the Research Center L3S of the Leibniz University and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. The goal of the project is the development and evaluation of new methods for semi-automatic generation of questions and answers for learning videos. Here, we pursue several research questions, such as, among others, the aspect of multimodality of video-based learning media, the generation of distractors ('wrong answers') for multiple-choice questions, and the automatic evaluation of answers for open-ended question formats.

 

*What you can expect*:

-  Develop and implement procedures for generating (multiple choice) questions, answers, and distractors.

-  Development and implementation of procedures for scoring free text answers

-  Collaboration in the development and evaluation of a system for examing comprehension of learning videos

-  Publication of research and development results at conferences and in professional journals

-  Participation in the organization the project

 

*Requirements*

Research Field: Computer science

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

-  Master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science or computational linguistics

-  In-depth knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning

-  Proven knowledge in Natural Language Processing (NLP)

-  Gender and diversity skills

 

Languages:     ENGLISH

Level:     Excellent

 

Languages:    GERMAN

Level:     Good

 

Website for additional job details: https://karriere.hs-hannover.de/bewerbung/beschreibung-900000104-10057.html

 

Where to apply: https://karriere.hs-hannover.de/bewerbung/beschreibung-900000104-10057.html

*First Contact*

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Prof. Dr. Christian Wartena

University of Applied Sciences (HsH Hochschule Hannover)

Institute for Applied Data Science Hannover (DATA|H)

E-Mail: christian.wartena@hs-hannover.de

 

Postal address

City:    Hannover

Website:     https://www.hs-hannover.de/forschung/forschungsaktivitaeten/forschungscluster/smart-data-analytics

Street:     Expo Plaza 12

Postal Code:     30539


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