PhD Students in Natural Language Processing

Zurich University of Applied Sciences is looking for highly motivated PhD Students in Natural Language Processing,

Institute of Applied Information Technology has acquired two major research projects for which we are looking for PhD students.

In the first project, "Virtual Kids", the goal is to build a training system for police officers who have to interrogate children. Our dialogue system will simulate such an interview - by applying an animated avatar and speech recognition - and allow the police officers to talk to the virtual child in a natural way. Our system will be a key means in the education of the police officers.

In the second project, "Interscriber", we build a system for automatic transcription and analysis of dialogues. Given an audio recording of an interview or meeting, the system will use Speech-to-Text and Speaker Recognition to generate an initial transcript and provide an easy-to-use editor for error correction. This is already available as a product. In a second phase, we will summarize the content of the transcripts automatically and extract, for instance, a list of action items from business meetings.

As a PhD student, you will work on one of these projects and collaborate with our team of experts – computational linguists, software engineers, and data scientists – to develop the solution. The topic of your PhD thesis will be decided together with your supervisor, once you will be acquainted with the project setting.