Postdoctoral Fellow(s) – Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities)

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Department
Department of History
Rank
Postdoctoral
Position type
Full-time

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop and apply NLP and data-science methods including OCR correction, semantic search, and knowledge-graph modelling.
  • Support construction and processing of large multilingual historical corpora.
  • Co-author research papers for digital humanities and computational linguistics venues.
  • Work with an international research team and contribute to project workshops and events.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related technical field.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern NLP tools and ML frameworks.
  • Experience working with textual data such as tokenization, embeddings, transformers, OCR, or corpus processing.
  • Ability to work independently in an interdisciplinary environment.
  • Preference for experience with multilingual NLP, digital text pipelines, or graph neural networks.
  • Interest in cultural analytics or historical text analysis is advantageous.

Appointment

  • Full-time, contract basis for up to eighteen months, renewable subject to good performance and mutual agreement.

Key Dates

  • Reporting duty date: 30 June 2026
  • Application review commencement: 15 March 2026
  • Positions filled: Ongoing (until filled)
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