Postdoctoral Fellow: Multilingual NLP, OCR & IR

University College Dublin; Ireland; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

University College Dublin invites applications for a full‑time postdoctoral research fellow to join the PanAsia project in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. The role is a three-year fellowship starting 2027, focused on a European Research Council funded study of anticolonial periodical culture in Southeast Asia (c.

1850–1920). The PD1/PD2 position targets early career researchers, with responsibilities spanning corpus curation, database design, and cross-linguistic analysis across five

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field or near completion.
• Early-stage researcher with potential for independent work.
• Experience with multilingual text corpora and digitisation.

Responsibilities

• Locate multilingual periodical corpus and obtain permissions.
• Design and implement a searchable, machine-readable database.
• Identify intertextual exchange and cross-reference articles.
• Identify reprinted articles and periodical fiction across corpus.

Skills

Research skills

NLP

Multilingual analysis

Education

PhD completed

Tools

OCR

NLP software

LLMs

Job description

University College Dublin invites applications for a full‑time postdoctoral research fellow to join the PanAsia project in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. The role is a three-year fellowship starting 2027, focused on a European Research Council funded study of anticolonial periodical culture in Southeast Asia (c.

1850–1920). The PD1/PD2 position targets early career researchers, with responsibilities spanning corpus curation, database design, and cross-linguistic analysis across five