Postdoctoral Researcher in Language Technology or Digital Humanities

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of. POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY OR DIGITAL HUMANITIES. for a fixed-term period of 28 months, starting in January 2027. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor Tuomo Hiippala . The project develops novel methods and corpora for studying multimodality, or how humans communicate using combinations of multiple modes of expression. These methods and corpora are used to develop empirically founded theories of multimodal communication in the domain of everyday cultural artefacts. The data studied in the project includes, for example, school textbooks, news broadcasts, diagrams and instruction manuals. RESPONSIBILITIES . The post-doctoral researcher will contribute towards meeting the goals of the research project by participating in building several large multimodal corpora that target diverse page-based and audiovisual media, which are described using multiple layers of cross-referenced annotations. The appointee is expected to develop approaches that use computer vision, large language models and other computational methods to annotate the research data, and to evaluate and complement the resulting annotations using human-in-the-loop approaches. In addition to conduc