Postdoc in Multilingual NLP for Polarization Forecasting

Koç University; Turkey; On-site; TRY 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye, invites applications for a Postdoc position within the ERC-funded EMERGEPOL project. The successful candidate will develop multilingual NLP pipelines and contribute to machine-learning models forecasting issue-level polarization, collaborating across Ireland, the Netherlands, Hungary and Türkiye.

The role requires a PhD in computational social science or related fields, strong Python skills, and experience with large text corpora.

Qualifications

• PhD required in a relevant field with strong computational methods.
• Fluency in English (project's working language).
• Demonstrated experience with NLP and/or machine learning applied to text.
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with relevant ML/NLP libraries.
• Experience with large text corpora and reproducible data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent and collaborative research within an international team.
• Publish in peer-reviewed journals and contribute to project outputs.
• Present research at international conferences.
• Organise workshops and public-facing events.
• Contribute to open-access pipelines, annotated corpora and codebases.

Skills

NLP

Python

ML

Multilingual processing

Education

PhD in computational social science

Tools

Hugging Face

spaCy

Job description

Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye, invites applications for a Postdoc position within the ERC-funded EMERGEPOL project. The successful candidate will develop multilingual NLP pipelines and contribute to machine-learning models forecasting issue-level polarization, collaborating across Ireland, the Netherlands, Hungary and Türkiye.

The role requires a PhD in computational social science or related fields, strong Python skills, and experience with large text corpora.