The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 17 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing.
The position involves interdisciplinary research on the development and evaluation of large language models for low-resourced langauges, primarily focusing on Danish and other Nordic languages. The research will focus on post-training methods for these low-resourced languages, for example, by investigating the role of synthetic data, among other data augmentation techniques, and the role of in-context learning in modelling low-resource languages. Applicants are also expected to contribute to work on data pre-processing, tokenization, model training. The candidate will be affiliated to the project group Danish Foundation Models, (https://www.foundationmodels.dk/) which is a collaboration between several major universities in Denmark addressing the aforementioned initiative, including Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, the Alexandra Institute, and the University of Copenhagen. The candidate will be co-supervised from both the Centre for Language Technology and the Department of Computer Science and will be physically located in both places during their employment.
The successful candidate will join the Language and Multimodal Processing group, which is part of a section with a strong, international, and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics, and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about the group is available here: https://lampgroup.github.io/, and further information about the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/.
The application deadline is August 15, 2025, with interviews on September 4, 2025, and a start date of 15 October, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164490.
Inquiries about the position can be made at de@di.ku.dk. Interested candidates can also reach out to schedule an informal discussion during the ACL 2025 conference in Vienna.