[PlanetKR] 2 year Postdoc position at Edinburgh on causality + knowledge graphs

[Vaishak BELLE]

Dear all,
 this is a post-doc opportunity on integrating causality and knowledge graphs for misinformation.

Project title: Causal Knowledge Graphs for Reasoning about Counterfactual Claims

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a post-doctoral Research Associate position under the supervision of Dr Björn Ross and Dr Vaishak Belle. The postholder will be part of the new Edinburgh Laboratory for Integrated Artificial Intelligence, the SMASH group and the Belle Lab.

Current AI approaches to misinformation detection often learn to recognise paraphrases of previously seen claims. Detecting new misinformation is much harder, and linguistic cues are not enough to distinguish fact from fiction. Our approach is grounded in knowledge graphs and the logic of causality. However, this approach has its own challenges. Much of the misinformation encountered is not limited to simple factual statements that can be tested against a structured representation of knowledge but it consists of more complex claims such as counterfactual statements. To address this problem, we integrate approaches from different subfields of computer science, namely, computational logic, deep learning and natural language processing.

The position is for 24 months. The post closes at 5pm UK time on 23 January 2022.

Grade UE07, salary range: £34,304 - £40,92

Access application at https://twitter.com/bjoernross/status/1469273157156618256  The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
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