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CfA: 1y grant ”Empowering Public Interest Communication with Argumentation”, Pisa-Genova (Italy), deadline: 12. March
Research grant (12 months) for the project ”Empowering Public Interest Communication with Argumentation” (EPICA). National Research Council of Italy (CNR) - Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC). Pisa-Genova.
Prerequisite: MA/MSc degree
The proposed grant is in the context of the PRIN 2022 project “Empowering Public Interest Communication with Argumentation” (EPICA). It will be funded on a 12 months contract for a total import of 19,367 EUR, 1613 gross salary per month (ca. 1400 EUR after taxes).
Application deadline: March 12, 2024
Interview: March 25, 2024
Funding starts: May 2024
A general description of the project is available below. The full text of the call (in Italian), with more detailed information on the conditions and how to apply is available at the following web page:
https://www.ilc.cnr.it/bando-per-n-1-assegno-di-ricerca-ilc-ass-003-2024-pi/
For further information, please contact
Irene Russo: irene.russo@ilc.cnr.it
Carlo Proietti: carlo.proietti@ilc.cnr.it
General description of the project
Institutional public communication is of paramount importance in contemporary society: campaigns to promote appropriate behaviour in front of the COVID-19 emergency are just one of the most recent examples. While the potential benefits of proper public communication are invaluable, the risks inherent to its unintentional or even deliberate misuse are huge.
Conspiracy theories and widespread fake news provide some popularized examples. At the same time, ineffective and/or contradictory communications from political and health authorities around the world may have more severe consequences than disorientation.
The field of Public Interest Communications (PIC) has recently emerged as an autonomous discipline [CHR17]. Yet, the development of formal models and the use of information technology to support PIC activities are quite limited. This project aims at filling this gap by leveraging the potential of Computational Argumentation (CA), a field that has become, in the last three decades, a major research topic in Artificial Intelligence. CA deals with the formal representation and computer-supported management of debates and controversies and has developed both a large corpus of theoretical knowledge and a rich portfolio of implemented tools, with applications in areas like legal reasoning, medical reasoning, e-democracy. The EPICA project aims at empowering PIC by establishing fundamental formal contributions and enabling unprecedented opportunities of automated support based on advanced CA techniques.
Objective and methodology
After a preliminary stage of analysis and formal modelling, a central phase of the EPICA project consists of a task of model-based case analysis and model validation, which consists in
(a) extracting relevant information from real PIC case studies so to enable the application of the developed models.
(b) verifying, through the analysis of PIC case studies, that these models comply with the identified features of effective communication
Candidate profile
The candidate is expected to work mainly on model-based case analysis and validation, with the main goal of enabling and experimenting the application of the proposed models to actual instances of PIC. The ideal candidates should have general competences in programming and/or data analysis, with a general interest in natural language analysis. Basic competences in computational linguistics, and/or natural language processing and/or formal argumentation are a plus.
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