Dear colleagues, first of all a happy New Year! And with the New Year there are new opportunities. Please find below a call for applications for a part-time PreDoc or PostDoc position in NLP/DH on historical low-resource languages, especially Old Lithuanian. Note that previous experience with Lithuanian will be considered a plus, but is not a requirement. If you have any questions on scope, technical details and current progress of the project, please feel free to get in touch with me. The application, however, is to be sent to Jürgen Hermes ([email protected]) at the University of Cologne.
Research assistant (PreDoc or PostDoc) on Language Technology / Digital Humanities Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Cologne, Germany The University of Cologne is one of the largest and most research-intensive universities in Germany and covering a diverse range of subjects. With its six faculties and its interfaculty centres, it offers a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines and internationally outstanding profile areas, which the administration supports with its services. The project "Postil Time Machine" is dedicated to linguistic analysis, digital edition and interlinking of historical texts from Eastern Europe, with a special focus on Lutheran sermon collections from Lithuania and their Latin and German originals. These texts belong to the oldest textual witnesses of the Baltic languages and are therefore of special interest for comparative linguistics. We offer an exciting position in an interdisciplinary and internationally well-connected research group in a crucial growth area of language technology and digital humanities, respectively, focusing on the processing of morphologically rich languages and technical solutions for low-resource languages. YOUR TASKS The successful candidate will be responsible for the automatic morphological annotation (especially lemmatization) of Lithuanian texts, as well as the automatic identification of possible translation sources in Latin and German. We expect the ability to work independently on given language technology problems. This includes improving the current system by developing new functional components, participating in the research activities of the project, and publishing relevant language technology papers at national and international conferences of the NLP and DH communities. YOUR PROFILE Required qualifications: M.Sc. in computational linguistics, digital humanities, computer science, linguistics, or equivalent. Unless specific language technology skills are evident from degree or certificates, a successful candidate should be able to demonstrate skills in both information technology and linguistics/language technology. WE OFFER • Flexible working time models • Extensive range of further training courses • Offers of the company health management • Allowance for public transportation • Mobile Office The position is to be filled from February 1, 2023 and limited until April 30, 2025, on a part-time basis with 19.92 hours per week. Provided that the necessary requirements are met, the remuneration is based on pay group 13 TV-L. The University of Cologne promotes equal opportunities and diversity. Women are particularly invited to apply and will be given preferential consideration in accordance with LGG NRW. Applications from people with disabilities also explicitly welcome. HOW TO APPLY The deadline for applications is January 10, 2023. Please apply with your application documents incl. enclosed proofs for the required qualifications (without photography) by e-mail to [email protected]. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Jürgen Hermes [email protected]. DISCLAIMER This is an informal translation of the official (German) call for applications: https://www.stellenwerk.de/koeln/jobboerse/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiterin-schwerpunkt-im-bereich-sprachtechnologie-digital-humanities-221222-128043/). Please refer to the original call when applying. Note that although the call is in German, German language skills are not a necessary pre-requisite for potential applicants. Best regards, Christian Chiarcos University of Cologne, Germany
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