Dear all,

apologies for cross/reposting the announcements – just wanted to send out a reminder about the positions described below, as the May 1 deadline for applications is approaching.

In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at tuomo.hiippala@helsinki.fi.

Best, Tuomo Hiippala

--- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES ---

This is a fixed-term position for 36 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing structured, machine-readable representations of multimodality for the page-based and audiovisual media studied in the project. As the descriptions of multimodality are collected using crowdsourcing, the post-doctoral researcher is also expected to participate in designing and implementing crowdsourcing pipelines.

QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in digital humanities, humanities computing, language technology, computer science or a related field, and have a keen interest in multimodality. Previous experience of developing structured representations for diverse forms of data is essential. Previous experience or interest in volunteer-based or paid crowdsourcing or citizen science is considered an asset.

For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-digital-hu...

--- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION ---

This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing large corpora that describe the multimodal structure of the diverse media studied in the project. To scale up the corpus size, the data will be described by crowdsourced non-expert workers. The post-doctoral researcher will lead the development of crowdsourcing tasks that generate descriptions that can be then compiled into systematic corpus annotations. The appointee will also participate in developing new methods for analysing large multimodal corpora.

QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in linguistics, semiotics, media studies or related field with a specific focus on multimodality. The appointee must have a deep understanding of contemporary theories of multimodality relevant to the domain of the project. Previous experience of designing and implementing annotation schemes for multimodal corpora is essential. Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and mark-up languages such as XML and JSON for managing research data is considered an advantage.

For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-multimodal...

--- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Associate Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities Department of Languages | University of Helsinki, Finland | +358 50 377 33 66 http://www.helsinki.fi/~thiippal/%C2%A0%7C%C2%A0https://www.helsinki.fi/mult...