2x Computational Linguist / Natural Language Processing Developer (Computational Humanities)

We are looking for two (2) Computational Linguist / Natural Language Processing developers for the ERC research project POSTDATA http://postdata.linhd.es/. The project, born at the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab from UNED, LINHD, is a Digital Humanities project which deals with poetry analysis, standardization and classification. It combines semantic web technologies, natural language processing and digital scholarship editing with the analysis of more than 30 poetry projects and databases in different European languages. The team is an interdisciplinary group of high-qualified researchers from different disciplines, from linguistics, philology and literature to computer science, mathematics and semantic web engineers.

 

Requirements for this position are:

• Knowledge of Natural Language processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics
• Knowledge of NLP toolkits
• Experience using language technology in the Humanities
• Good programming skills in Python or Java
• Languages: Spanish and English
• Demonstrable good writing skills in English
• Experience with software version control (git)
• Autonomy combined with good communication and collaboration skills, team-oriented

 

Desirable

• Experience with machine learning
• Experience using machine learning for non-canonical language varieties
• Experience with managing annotation projects
• Experience with deep learning
• Knowledge of web development frameworks (e.g. Django or Flask, or Drupal)
• Additional languages (modern or historical varieties)
• Good publication record in NLP or related areas
• Experience with software prototyping
• Experience with iterative development
• Linux shell, shell scripting
• Experience deploying web applications on Linux

The positions will be filled as soon as we find a candidate suitable for it. Don't wait for the last minute!

 

Benefits

• Working in a dynamic and multilingual environment
• Academic mentoring and EU project experience
• Individual development and training opportunities
• Participation in events and conference in the Digital Humanities field with travel expenses for some conferences, seminars and training events covered
• The researcher will have all the contract benefits that a UNED researcher has: vacation according to the time worked, discount in public transport, etc.

 

The selection of a researcher will take place in 3 steps:

First step will be to evaluate all the CVs received 

Second step we will arrange meeting face to face or virtual with the selected candidates 

Third step we will offer a contract to the chosen candidate
 
Deadline for submitting applications will be September 21th.