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Tenure track assistant professorship in Language Technology and Natural Language Processing, Centre for Language Technology, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, UCPH

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a position as tenure track assistant professor in language technology and natural language processing to be filled by the 1st of November 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The successful candidate will be attached to the Centre for Language Technology (CST), which is one of the research centres of the department. CST conducts research in different areas of interest for language technology, such as Natural Language Processing, construction of NLP resources and benchmarks, Computational Cognitive Modeling and Multimodality, NLP infrastructure and policy, Representation Learning for NLP and Digital Humanities, among others, see also: https://cst.ku.dk/english/.

The Centre has a strong international profile, at the same time as pursuing the development of language technology methods and resources for the Danish language. The Centre has considerable experience managing international research projects, frequently attracts visiting researchers and has organised major conferences in the field. Together with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Copenhagen, it offers an international MSc programme in ‘IT and Cognition’. The program, which currently admits about 30 students a year, consists of a range of courses in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science. In addition, we teach at several BA programs and electives, such as the BA for Danish-speaking students ‘Kognitions- and Datavidenskab’ (Cognition and Data Sciences) hosted at the Department of Psychology, and the BA elective package ‘AI, Programmering og Sprogteknologi’ (AI, Programming, and Language Technology) for humanities students.

The successful candidate will contribute to one or more of the Centre’s research areas and will teach courses belonging to the above-mentioned study programs. We expect the candidates to have a research profile with a strong publication record from relevant, high impact conferences and journals.

Note that the position comes with an opportunity to negotiate a start package that will help leverage the candidate’s scientific deliverables in the initial years of employment. For more information on the position, and on how to apply for it, please see https://jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=160799https://jobportal.ku.dk/ten....

The closing date for applications is 23:59 CEST, 10 Juni 2026.

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Patrizia Paggio

Associate Professor University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology paggio@hum.ku.dk

Professor (retired) University of Malta Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt