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Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS The Oxford Internet Institute—founded in 2001—is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Dr Scott A. Hale's team as a Research Assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
This is a variable-hours, fixed-term role, starting January 2025.
Working on misinformation response and narrative extraction, the successful candidate should have a MSc in Social Data Science and experience with performing narrative extraction using machine learning and LLMs.
Furthermore, the candidate should have documented interest in migration and creating synthetic benchmarks.
It is expected the successful candidate will work approximately 6-8 hours per week, but the exact number of hours will be variable and mutually agreed from time-to-time with the supervisor.
No more than 400 hours will be able during the term of the post, which will last at most until 30 June 2024.
You will be based at 34 St Giles, Oxford, but you may be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working in the United Kingdom with your line manager.
The successful candidate will:• Perform a review of existing narrative extraction techniques.• Create a synthetic benchmark dataset for narrative extraction and evaluate existing algorithms.• Build pipelines to identify and extract narratives in text using machine learning, including LLMs.
• Hold a MSc in Social Data Science• Have experience with performing narrative extraction using machine learning and LLMs• Have documented interest in migration and creating synthetic benchmarks.
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