Postdoc: AI-Driven Text Analytics in Digital Humanities

University of Sydney; Australia; Presencial; AUD 118.000 - 126.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

The University of Sydney invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of History and Philosophy of Science. The role focuses on digital humanities methods, AI-powered text analysis, and bibliometrics to uncover conceptual patterns across media, academia, and social discourse.

You will build classification models, curate large corpora, and contribute to interdisciplinary research aligned with ARC Discovery Projects, contributing to publications and open science

Qualificações

• PhD in a relevant field in the digital humanities.
• Experience curating, cleaning and structuring large corpora.
• Experience using NLP and/or ML to build and evaluate text classification models.
• Experience in prompt engineering techniques.
• Interest in interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Ability to translate conceptual research questions into computational tasks.
• Strong written communication skills and a track record of peer‑reviewed publication.

Responsabilidades

• Curate, clean and structure large text corpora from news media, social media and academic literature.
• Develop and refine automated classification pipelines using machine learning and LLM approaches.
• Design prompting strategies to optimise classifier precision and recall.
• Contribute to the interpretation of classification outputs in light of philosophical and psychological theories and concepts.
• Co‑author peer‑reviewed publications and conference presentations.
• Contribute to open science practices, including preparing code, data and documentation for public repositories (e.g. OSF).

Conhecimentos

NLP

Machine learning

Prompt engineering

Text classification

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Academic writing

Formação

PhD in Digital Humanities

Descrição da vaga

The University of Sydney invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of History and Philosophy of Science. The role focuses on digital humanities methods, AI-powered text analysis, and bibliometrics to uncover conceptual patterns across media, academia, and social discourse.

You will build classification models, curate large corpora, and contribute to interdisciplinary research aligned with ARC Discovery Projects, contributing to publications and open science