Department of Culture and Language (IKS) and IMADA invite applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (18 months) in Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities, starting 1 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is part of the research project METHOD. A Digital Entangled Approach to European Intellectual History, funded by the Velux Foundation and led by Aglae Pizzone (PI) and Reka Forrai (co-PI).

Short presentation of the research project
METHOD investigates how the concept of “method” developed across Byzantine Greek and early modern Latin intellectual traditions. The project combines intellectual history with computational text analysis to examine large, historically complex corpora spanning multiple centuries and languages.

The core research task is to model semantic change and conceptual structure using Natural Language Processing. We will build customized NLP pipelines for premodern Greek and humanistic Latin, train and evaluate word embedding models, and construct semantic and network-based representations of key concepts.

A central challenge — and opportunity — of the project is working with non-standardized, historically layered, and relatively low-resource languages. This includes corpus preparation, tokenization, model adaptation, and evaluation in settings where off-the-shelf tools are insufficient.

The project aims both to generate new historical insights and to develop reusable computational workflows for semantic modelling in premodern corpora.

Please read more about the position here