UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: Doctoral Researcher, Adapting Computational Strategies To Challenges In Historic Analysis At Scale

The School of Arts and CASCADE MSCA Doctoral Community invite functions for a Doctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities / Information Science to a fixed-term employment for 3 years, with the potential for a one-year extension contract. The place is titled: “Adapting computational strategies to challenges in historic research at scale”.

Drawing from CASCADE’s experience in each the conceptual understanding of various kinds of semantic change, in addition to the strategies to computationally mannequin such adjustments, this undertaking will give attention to guaranteeing that the computational approaches measure what they’re purported to measure. This contains fine-tuning machine-learning strategies to seize various kinds of change, in addition to guaranteeing that the measures derived are strong in opposition to exterior confounders, which can come up both from the information itself or from the uneven efficiency of the strategies themselves. Additional, the undertaking includes building adaptable environments which ought to allow the simple software of those strategies to new knowledge and questions. The chosen doctoral candidate ought to have prior information in pure language processing/language technology and/or data science.

Host establishment: College of Helsinki (Finland)

PhD:  PhD in Digital Humanities / Information Science

Primary supervisor: prof. Eetu Mäkelä (College of Helsinki, School of Arts, Digital Humanities)

Second supervisor: prof. Mikko Tolonen (College of Helsinki, School of Arts, Digital Humanities)

Mobility rule: has not resided in Finland for greater than 12 months within the 36 months previous appointment.

Duties of the PhD candidate:

• Completion of a PhD thesis inside 4 years (1,0 fte contract for 3 years, chance for extension contract for fourth 12 months);
• Participation within the normal coaching programme of the doctoral community (kick-off, month-to-month on-line research conferences, annual workshops and colleges, and last convention)
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• Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group centered on the intersection of computational science, linguistics, and historical past/cultural heritage.
• Improvement of computational approaches for the evaluation of historic digital collections.
• Participation in joint publications and engagement in educational service.

Deliberate secondments: CCRS. (Yr 2-3. 6 months. Testing NLP instruments and strategies for info extraction and modelling from industrial insurance knowledge.) Additionally visiting: Netherlands eScience Middle, USFD (different frameworks for the historical past of ideas).

SELECTION CRITERIA

We imagine in flexibility when deciding on the best candidate; subsequently, the necessities are adaptable. You’ll be able to method this place from the next background:

Computational Background:

• Msc / MA diploma in Digital Humanities, Information Science, AI, language technology, NLP, Data Science, or associated fields, held by time of appointment (if the diploma just isn’t but obtained on the time of software, an announcement by the applicant’s supervisor ought to affirm that will probably be obtained by time of appointment).
• Demonstrated expertise in making use of computational strategies.
• Functionality to bridge the hole between data science and the humanities.
• Robust research and analytical expertise.

This PhD place is a part of a broader research community that features totally different tasks specializing in historic full-text collections and enormous metadata collections in several languages. We’re notably focused on candidates who can exhibit that they’ll collaborate in an interdisciplinary setting with the mental historian that will probably be employed in CASCADE to Helsinki.

Diploma requirement for doctoral researcher place: The appointee should apply, and acquire, the best to pursue a doctoral diploma on the College of Helsinki throughout the probationary interval of 6 months: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/admissions-and-education/apply-doctoral-programmes/how-apply-doctoral-education

Candidates should not maintain a doctoral diploma in every other subject or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at one other larger education establishment.

The College of Helsinki is dedicated to selling equality and stopping discrimination in all its operations. We welcome candidates from a wide range of gender identities, linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

WHAT WE OFFER

The College of Helsinki presents the appointee a first-class research and teaching setting in addition to the preconditions vital for worldwide cooperation (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/why-university-helsinki).

The place is full-time for 3 years with a attainable extension contract for fourth 12 months. The employment contract will embrace a probationary interval of six months.

The wage is aggressive and complies with the MSC Work Programme: appr. 3550 €/month, together with Mobility allowance, after obligatory deductions. A conditional Household allowance of appr. 500 € might be added to the wage.

For the attainable fourth 12 months extension contract the wage will probably be outlined primarily based on the calls for stage desk for teaching and research personnel within the wage system of Finnish universities (roughly 3100-3700€/month, relying on the efficiency).

The College of Helsinki gives its workers with occupational health and sports activities companies in addition to skilled improvement alternatives (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/why-university-helsinki/staff-benefits). The appointee is anticipated to reside in Finland whereas employed by the College of Helsinki. Worldwide workers is supported in relocating to Finland (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/careers/welcome).

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

The appliance have to be submitted by way of the College of Helsinki digital recruitment system by clicking on the hyperlink under. Workers of the College of Helsinki should submit their functions by way of the SAP Fiori portal.

Candidates are requested to surround with their functions the next paperwork in English. Please add paperwork 1-4 as a single PDF file titled “lastname_firstname_application” and paperwork 5-6 as a separate PDF file titled “lastname_firstname_sample_output:

1. CV (max. 2 pages, together with listing of publications)
2. Cowl letter (600–800 phrases), overlaying:

   • Which {qualifications} make you appropriate for the place
   • How this PhD place aligns together with your scholarly pursuits and additional profession plans inside or outdoors academia
   • Your motivation to take part in a doctoral community which incorporates worldwide mobility and an internship interval

3. Names and make contact with particulars (electronic mail deal with) of two educational referees

   • It’s essential to have the permission of the educational referee to make use of their identify and make contact with particulars. They could be requested to supply a reference letter at a later stage.

4. MSc/MA diploma certificates (if accessible) and transcript of information

   • If the diploma just isn’t but obtained on the time of software, an announcement by the applicant’s supervisor ought to affirm that will probably be obtained by time of appointment

5. Educational writing pattern in English
6. Pattern of code written (e.g. repository hyperlink)

The deadline for functions is twelfth of April 2024. Shortlisted candidates will probably be invited for an interview.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For any questions and additional info, please contact Professor Mikko Tolonen, mikko.tolonen@helsinki.fi. Additional details about the recruitment course of might be obtained from HR Specialist Reeta Korhonen, reeta.korhonen@helsinki.fi.

This PhD place is a part of CASCADE: Computational Evaluation of Semantic Change Throughout Completely different Environments (MSCA Doctoral Community). CASCADE goals to coach early-stage researchers to develop and apply revolutionary methodologies for Computational Evaluation of Semantic Change Throughout Completely different Environments (CASCADE), i.e. to determine, analyse and interrogate how that means is expressed in language in numerous contexts, with a shared give attention to the affect of time (diachronic textual content analytics). Researchers within the community will encounter totally different theories of, and approaches to that means (structuralist, relational, distributional, cognitive, encyclopaedic, social) and find out how these have an effect on the standards for judging success in textual content evaluation.

MSCA Doctoral Networks are research and coaching programmes with the aim of coaching extremely expert doctoral candidates, stimulating their creativity, enhancing their innovation capacities and boosting their employability in the long run. For CASCADE this implies responding to a expertise deficit within the educational, public and industrial sectors: the necessity for individuals in a position to retrieve, critically consider and make higher use of the massive volumes of textual knowledge that characterise our modern info society (the ‘knowledge deluge’).

Being a part of an MSCA Doctoral Community means collaborating in networking actions and spending time overseas. Every PhD candidate will probably be co-supervised by two lecturers throughout the consortium; they are going to be primarily based at one of many universities of CASCADE and go to the college of their co-supervisor for a research keep, in addition to have a shorter internship at an related associate. They are going to be anticipated to take part in full within the coaching programme, consisting of summer season colleges, workshops, an everyday on-line seminar, and different actions.

CASCADE is dedicated to creating an setting through which all abilities can develop to their most potential, no matter gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or incapacity. We notably encourage candidates from historically underrepresented teams to use.

CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates inside its framework, who will probably be primarily based at 5 taking part universities. Functions for every place have to be submitted individually. It’s attainable to apply for multiple place, through which case the applicant should ship a separate electronic mail to james.osullivan@ucc.ie, stating this and indicating their desire. The recruitment course of will probably be executed centrally by the CASCADE choice committee.