Postdoc: Multimodal Language Tech & Digital Humanities

University of Helsinki / General; Finland; Presencial; EUR 45.000 - 46.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Conference travel funding

Access to CSC computing resources

Descripción de la vacante

The University of Helsinki invites applications for a fixed-term post-doctoral researcher position in the Multimodality Research Group, Department of Languages. The 28-month appointment starts January 2027 and focuses on building multimodal corpora, with methods using computer vision and large language models, and human-in-the-loop evaluation.

The appointee will contribute to publishing results, work within a multidisciplinary team spanning humanities, CS and engineering, reside in the Helsinki

Formación

• PhD in language technology, digital humanities or related field.
• Experience applying computational methods to large multimodal data.
• Strong programming skills and ML libraries; ability to work independently.
• Experience building annotated datasets and managing large data is an advantage.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to building large multimodal corpora with multiple annotation layers.
• Develop approaches using computer vision and large language models; use human-in-the-loop evaluation.
• Publish results in lead- and co-authored papers within the project scope.

Conocimientos

Programming

ML libraries

Annotated datasets

HPC

Multidisciplinary collaboration

English proficiency

Educación

Doctoral degree in language technology or related field

Descripción del empleo

The University of Helsinki invites applications for a fixed-term post-doctoral researcher position in the Multimodality Research Group, Department of Languages. The 28-month appointment starts January 2027 and focuses on building multimodal corpora, with methods using computer vision and large language models, and human-in-the-loop evaluation.

The appointee will contribute to publishing results, work within a multidisciplinary team spanning humanities, CS and engineering, reside in the Helsinki