Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics

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King’s College London is home to the world’s largest Department of Digital Humanities, located within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. We are internationally recognised for our interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and computational methods. The successful candidate will join the Computational Humanities research group, a vibrant and collaborative team dedicated to advancing data-driven approaches to historical, linguistic, and cultural research. This post is part of the 5-year project Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics (COALA), successfully evaluated by the ERC as a Consolidator Grant and funded by UKRI, led by Dr Barbara McGillivray.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics to lead the curated stream of the COALA project.

This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering project at the intersection of natural language processing, historical linguistics, and computational humanities.

The postholder will lead the curated stream of the project, which involves designing a large corpus of Latin texts, curating it (correction of pre-processed data and corpus metadata), curation of Latin sense inventories from lexicographic sources, validating and correcting automatic word sense annotations, coordinating a team of annotators working on sense annotation, and conducting case studies on Latin lexical semantics. You will work closely with computational linguists to integrate linguistic insights into computational models and help build open-source tools and resources that will support future research in historical semantics and NLP.

You will be responsible to the Principal Investigator and will collaborate with a team of postdoctoral researchers and external advisors across linguistics, NLP, and classical studies.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 3 years (with the possibility of extension)

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers , applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the  Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

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