Post-doctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics

About us

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.

About the role

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics to lead the computational 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 computational stream of the project, which involves building a large corpus of Latin texts (data collection and pre-processing), mining dictionary data, and developing novel algorithms for time-sensitive word sense disambiguation (WSD) in Latin, contributing to the creation of a 100-million-token annotated corpus, and conducting large-scale quantitative analyses of semantic change. You will work closely with Latin 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 approximately  2 years and 11 months (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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