Site University of Crete at Rethymno (Greece)
Established in 1978, the University of Crete (UoC), ranked among the top Greek universities, is a young public educational institution situated in a region (Crete), where the question of how cultural heritage is preserved, explained and transmitted is of paramount importance in a society that is focused on developing its tourist sector. https://en.uoc.gr/
The objective of the TALOS ERA Chair Project (https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/) funded by the European Union is to create a new centre of excellence in Artificial Intelligence for SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) and DH (Digital Humanities) that will interconnect several departments of the University of Crete at Rethymnon under a common research and teaching agenda. TALOS, under the will combine the strengths of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing to create a scalable, sustainable and explainable representation of knowledge in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
The activities of the TALOS Center will be led by Professor Christophe Roche (http://christophe-roche.fr/)
This call for PhD is about using Hybrid AI (Deep Learning, Symbolic AI, Natural Language Processing) to semantically annotate large text collections that cover vast historical time periods. Semantically annotated texts will be enriched with metadata, i.e. with references to concepts stored in knowledge graphs, including domain ontologies, for the purpose of effective data management. The objective is to produce open datasets that are shareable, searchable, findable, and linkable to external resources.
Funding by European Union
3-year position – 1.200 euros net salary