荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学招聘数字人文科学方向博士后

AAA Data Science Postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. This advertisement concerns one of the 14 positions. This postdoctoral researcher position is with Prof. Bod of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam and with Prof. Leemans of the Faculty of Humanities, VU University.  80% of digital data is in unstructured textual form. Textual data is rich and complex. Not only does it contain massive amounts of statements but, more importantly, it also reflects our perspective on these statements: our emotions, opinions, the interpersonal, as well as the current social debate. Textual data is therefore not only big but it is also deep, adding a multitude of complexity. This Digital Humanities project will model quality and perspectives in deep data. Together with a group of researchers (1 postdoc, 2 PhD’s) and a committed group of advisors from various disciplines, the postdoc of this project will help to deliver a framework for deep data representation that makes data provenance, quality and perspective explicit in the way such data is described and consumed.  In this project, the postdoc will investigate long-term changes of perspectives and perception in cultural texts (fiction, biographies, pedagogical texts, journals, newspapers and encyclopedias), through emotion analysis, topic modeling, and genre analysis. By elaborating on data sets and NLP techniques that have recently been developed in other projects, the postdoc will cluster, classify and interpret different perspectives on topics that feature in currently available machine-readable Dutch texts from 1600-2000.
 

Description

The postdoctoral researcher for this project should have a PhD in a Humanities discipline (linguistics, history, arts, literature, culture) with an interest for long term perspectives and textual culture. This project requires a strong background in digital humanities (preferably in natural language processing). As the project is set up as a close collaboration between scholars from various disciplines, the postdoc should have ample social skills and a flexible attitude towards work environments.
 

Benefits

The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of three years. Based on a full-time appointment (38 hours per week) the gross monthly salary will range from €2,476 to €3,908 (scale 10) depending on expertise and previous experience. The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable.2476 - 3908