The Department of Psychology at Stockholm University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in computational linguistics / cognitive science. The position involves a full-time employment for a maximum of two years, starting on November 1 2022, or as per agreement. The applicant will work in a research project that investigates crosslinguistic differences and similarities of smell vocabularies. In the project, smell vocabularies of diverse languages are mapped partly with the help of data-driven machine learning methods based on natural texts (i.e. text corpora), and partly based on more traditional lexical-typological, linguistic methods based on native speaker elicitations.

Main responsibilities - analysis of text corpora using NLP methods, word embedding modeling, machine learning and similar methods - quantitative data analysis and visualisation - writing of scientific articles - possibly also experimental data collection

Required qualifications - PhD in linguistics, cognitive science or similar, completed no more than three years before the application closing date (with some exceptions). - high-level skills in Python programming - documented experience in working with text corpora and various NLP methods and word space modeling (such as Word2Vec, BERT, GPT2) - documented experience of independent scientific work resulting in one or several publications in scientific journals or conference proceedings

Desired qualifications - documented experience of machine learning and other statistical methods such as regression analysis, PCA, hierarchical clustering, or neural networks - documented experience of text data processing and pre-processing, compilation of data from different sources, data visualisation - documented experience of experimental or survey data collection - good collaboration skills, be innovative, solution-oriented and able to work independently - basic knowledge of linguistics and cognitive psychology

Applications should include - contact details and personal data - highest degree - cover letter - CV – degrees and other completed courses, work experience and a list of publications - research proposal (no more than 3 pages) describing why you are interested in the project, how you wish to contribute, and why you are suitable for the project - copy of PhD diploma - letters of recommendation (no more than 3 files) - publications in support of your application (no more than 3 files) - language skills - contact details for 2–3 references

Application deadline: 07-Oct-2022 Web adress for application: https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/work-at-su/available-jobs?rmp...

Contact information Dr. Thomas Hörberg thomas.hoerberg@psychology.su.se