[agents] PhD Opportunity in AI for Legal Reasoning

[Jean-Guy Mailly]

Sorry for cross-posting

We are searching for a candidate with a Master degree in Computer Science, with knowledge about Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing) and a strong interest for interdisciplinary work.

The PhD student will work on

the definition of argumentation formalisms allowing the representation of context-sensitive information (e.g. contextual preferences between arguments);
the extraction of such argumentative information from legal text.
The PhD candidate will be part of the AIDAL research group (https://www.irit.fr/aidal/), a newly founded team in AI and Law at the Université Toulouse Capitole. The scholarship covers 3 years, with approximate salary 2100EUR (gross) , with the possibility of topping up with teaching activities. Ideal starting date in Autumn 2024.

More information is available here: https://jgmailly.github.io/assets/pdf/aidal_PhD.pdf.
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