(apologies for cross-postings)
Dear colleagues,
We are looking for two Postdoctoral Research Associates (in Latin Linguistics and in computational linguistics) for theERC-selected project “Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics” (COALA) at King’s College London. Led by Dr Barbara McGillivray, the project is funded by UKRI under the ERC Guarantee scheme and explores Latin semantics through large-scale corpus annotation and computational analysis, combining NLP with historical linguistics.
Location: Strand Campus, London Fixed-term: 3 years Closing date for applications: 2 December 2025
1. Post-doctoral research associate in Latin Linguistics
The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation.
Fixed-term: 3 years
Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130725-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-latin-... 2. Post-doctoral research associate in Computational Linguistics
The successful candidate will design and curate a 1-million-token Latin corpus, conduct annotation of word senses in the corpus, and conduct case studies on Latin semantic change and variation.
Fixed-term: 2 years and 11 months Full details and application link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130705-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-comput...
Dr Barbara McGillivray, FHEA | https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli @BarbaraMcGillihttps://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli
Senior Lecturer in Digital and Cultural Humanities and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities
Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Grouphttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group Open Research Lead, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Datahttps://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/