PhD candidates Perspectives in Deliberation at Leiden University

The Faculty of Science and LIACS are looking for

PhD candidates Perspectives in Deliberation: Artificial intelligence to support Human Group Decision Making

Project description
Perspectives in deliberation is about developing Artificial Intelligence techniques to find the underlying structures of debates and group deliberations with the idea that we can help participants to a debate / deliberation to understand why others have a different opinion in this debate. To this end we want to use computational linguistics to extract what we call micro-propositions from text: proposition mining. Secondly, we want to model the implications for stakeholders of these propositions: implication mining. Strategic issues may arise. Thirdly, we want to extract and understand the perspectives of the stakeholders on these implications: perspective mining.

In addition to understanding the debate and the perspectives, the AI you develop will seek to interact with stakeholders about the interpretations of what they brought in as statements and arguments.

Key responsibilities
Who wants to build AI that understands people so well that it can help resolve debates and conflicts? Do you want to build a new type of AI that we call Hybrid Intelligence, in which AI and people can deliberate on societal changes and their impact? Your work will consist of:

Participating in the HI project, its meetings and its training;
We seek an energetic PhD candidate, to carry out this research project at the forefront of the interdisciplinary combination of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics;
During the project, you are expected to write the research articles that together will form the basis of a thesis to attain a PhD degree (dr.) at Leiden University;
Candidates will participate in the education and supervision program of the Leiden Graduate School of Science as well as in the Hybrid Intelligence project graduate school;
Teaching duties of max 10% of the time are foreseen.

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PhD candidates Perspectives in Deliberation at Leiden University