Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP for Historical Texts

2 weeks ago

Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Københavns Universitet Full time
Company Overview:
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), is pleased to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on multilingual historical texts from 1600 to 1900. Our team works to advance our understanding of the diachronic development of gendered and racialized language in historical documents produced between 1600 to 1900.

Job Description:
We invite applications from highly qualified candidates with a strong background in NLP and a keen interest in applying their expertise to collaborative historical research on Atlantic colonial history. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research team in the context of the DFF Sapere Aude project Racialized Motherhood . As a postdoctoral researcher, you will be responsible for developing and implementing NLP methodologies that can aid the team in effectively retrieving, processing, analyzing, and interpreting relevant historical documents.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
To be eligible for this position, you should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Computational Social Science, or a related field with a focus on NLP. You must demonstrate expertise in key NLP methodologies, including but not limited to:
  • Text preprocessing (tokenization, stemming, lemmatization)
  • OCR post correction
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER)
  • Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging
  • Syntactic and semantic parsing
  • Machine learning approaches (supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning)
  • Deep learning techniques (RNNs, CNNs, Transformers)
  • Information retrieval and extraction
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Topic modeling
  • Interpretable NLP
You should also be familiar with historical textual data and willing to tackle the challenges specific to this domain, such as handling archaic language and obsolete terms, dealing with OCR errors in digitized historical documents, contextualizing historical events and linguistic usage over time, and ethically handling racialized and gendered language.

Benefits:
This full-time and fixed-term position is available for 2 years starting from 1 January 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. The salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). In addition, a total pension contribution of 17.1% will be allocated. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis.

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