Dear all,
The TurkuNLP research group at the University of Turku, Finland, invites applications for 2–4 fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions in Digital Linguistics and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP). Employment begins in March–April 2026 at the earliest (or as agreed) and continues for 24 months or until the end of May 2028.
The positions are part of several research projects targeting web language use and massively multilingual web-crawled data. All projects are funded by the Research Council of Finland, including the newly selected Centre of Excellence Human Diversity through Contacts.
The research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Modeling and linguistically analyzing language use across varieties such as registers (genres) in massively multilingual web-scale data, using multilingual deep learning methods, LLMs, and corpus-linguistic statistical approaches
- Developing NLP methods for advanced semantic analysis and labeling of multilingual web data
- Theoretical and methodological advances for web language use and web-as-corpus research
The closing date for applications is February 26, 2026 at 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki).
For more information, please contact me or visit https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkijatohtorin-maaraaikaisia-tehtavia-dig... and https://sites.utu.fi/humandiversity/news/positions-open-in-human-diversity-c....
Best regards, Veronika Laippala