Postdoc in Digital Humanities & Info Retrieval (PanAsia)

EURAXESS Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

University College Dublin invites applications for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities/Information Retrieval within the School of English, Drama and Film. The project PanAsia explores anticolonial periodical culture across Southeast Asia, with aims to locate corpora, build a searchable database, and analyze cross-textual networks.

Initial PD1/PD2 distinctions apply; closing date is 18 November 2026.

Qualifications

• PhD required or near-completion with strong research track
• Experience in digital humanities or information retrieval preferred
• Familiarity with multilingual corpora and OCR/NLP workflows

Responsibilities

• Locate multilingual periodical corpus and obtain permissions to publish
• Design and implement a searchable/machine-readable database of corpus parts
• Identify intertextual exchanges and cross-reference across the corpus
• Identify reprinted or syndicated articles across corpus
• Identify periodical fiction within the corpus

Skills

Information Retrieval

OCR

NLP

LLMs

Machine Translation

Multilingual AI

Database Design

Structured Data Management

Education

PhD in relevant field

Job description

University College Dublin invites applications for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities/Information Retrieval within the School of English, Drama and Film. The project PanAsia explores anticolonial periodical culture across Southeast Asia, with aims to locate corpora, build a searchable database, and analyze cross-textual networks.

Initial PD1/PD2 distinctions apply; closing date is 18 November 2026.