Postdoc position UNIGE: Natural Language Processing & Linked Data

Dear all,

We are seeking, starting **1 March 2024**, a highly motivated candidate 
for a 1-year postdoc position in the area of NLP and Linked Data within 
the project [TextEnt (Textual Entities in 
Time)](https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/recherche/projets-de-la-chaire/textent). 
The successful candidate will be part of the Digital Humanities Unit at 
the University of Geneva and jointly supervised by [Simon 
Gabay](https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/equipe/collaborateurs/simon-gabay) 
(Textual Data, Computational Philology) and [Nicola 
Carboni](https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/equipe/collaborateurs/nicola-carboni) 
(Linked Data, Graph Analytics).

Working conditions:

- Contract duration: 1-year contract
- Wage: CHF  78’625 (~82’000 €)
- Remote work: to be discussed
- Experience: PhD, 5 years maximum after the viva
- Starting date: March 1st

Tasks:

1. _Corpus building_: constitution of a corpus (c. 5,000 documents in 
Historical French) from existing digital libraries, (ii) extraction of 
the information with HTR, (iii) encoding in TEI. Data and HTR and layout 
analysis models are provided.
2. _Geographic entities_: recognition and extraction from the retrieved 
corpus of referenced entities (current, historical and imaginary). Data 
and NER models are provided.
3. _Reconciliation_: development of a novel knowledge-driven pipeline 
for linking identified geographical entities with their corresponding 
historical entity retrieved by a list of public Knowledge Graphs (e.g. 
Wikidata). To be built from scratch.
4. _Analysis_: development of methodologies for the quantification of 
the impact in time of geographic entities through the analysis of their 
spatial and historical dimension.


See this link for more details about the project, the skills required 
and the application procedure:

https://www.unige.ch/lettres/humanites-numeriques/application/files/9917/0135/1655/Job_ad_TextEnt.pdf


Applications may be submitted before **January 15th** in either French 
or English to simon.gabay @unige.ch and nicola.carboni @unige.ch and 
should include:

- Curriculum Vitae, with a complete list of publications;
- a statement (max 2 pages) of why you are the ideal fit for the 
position;
- One paper you (co-)wrote;
- additional documents to support your application (e.g. portfolio), 
including the names and contact details of two references.


Please spread the word, and feel free to get in touch with any 
questions.

Kind regards,

Nicola


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Nicola Carboni
Visual Contagions
Digital Humanities - dh.unige.ch
Faculté des Lettres
Université de Genève
5, rue de Candolle
1211 Genève 4