Research Fellowship; 1 vacancy - CALG/BESI/BI-2026-02

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Offer Description: A call for applications is now open for the attribution of 1 (one) Post-Doctoral Research Grant within the scope of the R&D project " BESI: Sistema integrado para a promoção do bem-estar e do sucesso escolar, baseado em estratégias pedagógicas inovadoras” project nº 18237, reference NORTE2030-FEDER-01425800, cofinanced by FEDER through North Regional Programme (Norte 2030) of Portugal 2030, under the terms of the Call MPr-2023-7 (SIID – Business R&D – Co-Promotion – Other Territories), under the following conditions: Scientific Area : Computer Science, Linguistics, or related fields. Recipient category: The BIPD are intended for doctorates in the area of Computer Science, Linguistics, or related fields . Admission Requirements: Hold a doctoral degree obtained within three years prior to the date of submission of the scholarship application; To have carried out the research leading to the award of the doctoral degree in an organization other than the one hosting the scholarship; * Not exceed, with the conclusion of the contract in question, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of three years in this type of scholarship, consecutive or interpolated; Not to have previously held a post-doctoral scholarship contract with the same I&D Unit. Once the BIPD contract has ended, no new scholarship contract can be signed between the same host organization and the same scholarship holder. Candidates who do not cumulatively meet the requirements described will be excluded. * This includes different I&D Units, even if they are based in the same Organic Unit (UOEI) of UMinho (according to nº 4 and 5 of the Article 7º of the FCT I.P. Research Grants Regulations in force). Applicants’ eligibility: Candidates who meet the conditions set out in Article 9 of the Research Grant Regulations, No. 950/2019, of 16-12-2019, of FCT I.P. are eligible. Nationals or citizens of other European Union member states, third-country nationals, stateless persons, and citizens with political refugee status are eligible to apply for this competition. Candidate eligibility requirements: Candidates must hold, at the time of application, a Doctor degree in Computer Science, Linguistics or related fields. Candidates must also have knowledge in: i. Natural Language Processing (NLP), including adaptation and evaluation of models based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Portuguese language; ii. Affective computing and automatic sentiment and emotion analysis; iii. Machine Learning and Deep Learning applied to textual data analysis; iv. Development and evaluation of intelligent systems, namely conversational systems, recommendation systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures. Priority will be given to candidates with consolidated knowledge in: i. Generative models applied to the educational context, namely in the automatic generation of educational content and pedagogical questions; ii. Design of linguistic annotation schemes and evaluation of inter-annotator agreement (Kappa, ICC). Workplan and objectives to be achieved: The workplan consists of the following tasks: Research on affective computing techniques and analysis of open-ended text produced by students; Research on generative models and strategies applied to education, in European Portuguese; Development and evaluation of advanced support models for the system (activity recommendations, messaging, activity generation, and typology detection); Exploration of explainability and interpretability techniques for the models; Scientific dissemination of the results. Applicable legislation and regulations: Research Fellow Statute (EBI), approved by Law nº. 40/2004 of August 18, in its current wording and FCT Research Fellowship Regulation, approved by Regulation nº 950/2019, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, of December 16, 2019, in its current wording, and Scientific Research Fellowship Regulation (RBIC) of the University of Minho, approved by order

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