13 Mar 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
GESIS - Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften- Department
Cologne/Mannheim- Research Field
Sociology- Researcher Profile
Recognised Researcher (R2)- Country
Germany- Application Deadline
3 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Berlin)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
39,5- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme- Reference Number
KTS-60- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association.
For the next possible date our Department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences, Big Data Analytics located in Cologne, is looking for a
Senior Researcher (PostDoc) NLP and Big Data
(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited to 4 years, with option for extension)
The department Knowledge Technologies for Social Sciences (KTS) conducts research at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), human information interaction and machine learning as foundation for innovative web portals and platforms for the search and use of research data.
GESIS is currently conducting a major effort to explore big data in combination with artificial intelligence-based methods to generate new insights and infrastructures for the social sciences. Examples include techniques for opinion mining, stance detection, or classification of online behavior and interactions as observed in social web platforms and other data-intensive environments.
In this context, we offer an exciting opportunity to conduct excellent research and develop innovative methods for answering social science questions through mining and understanding of heterogeneous Web data using techniques from NLP and deep learning. Special emphasis will be placed on transparency, fairness, and reproducibility of the methods used.
Your tasks will be:
- Research in natural language processing (NLP), information extraction (IE), and computational social science e.g. on tasks such as text mining, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and text summarization to extract meaningful insights from unstructured text data focusing social science research questions
- Working and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and social science researchers to create innovative infrastructures for access and analysis of digital behavioral data, such as data mined from the social web or mobile apps
- Developing efficient methods for analyzing, accessing and processing large volumes of digital behavioral data, with a focus on reliability, reproducibility, and efficiency
- Publishing and presenting your research within and outside of GESIS and at top-tier (social Science) research venues
- Co-supervision of team members and PhD students
Your profile:
- Doctoral/Ph.D. degree in computer science, computational social science or related fields and (internationally) visible publications in one or more of the following areas: information extraction, NLP, machine learning, information retrieval, big data, web mining and archiving
- Experience in software development for NLP, ML, and scalable analytics (Python, Java, or Scala)
- Preferably worked with big data frameworks (e.g., Spark, Hadoop)
- Desirable: experience in coordinating scientific projects and research teams
- Ability to communicate fluently in English, German language skills are desired
Our Benefits:
- A fast-growing, international, and interdisciplinary research environment with strong ties to regional and international labs and experts in related fields
- Access to unique corpora of Web-mined data, user interaction logs, and computational infrastructure for collecting and processing behavioral data
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of up to 60% mobile working within Germany
- Very good conditions for reconciling work and family life, e.g. subsidies for childcare for children who have not yet attained the age of compulsory schooling
- Holistic company health management and discounted participation in the university's sports programme
- Generous support for your pension provision as a direct insurance policy
- Promotion of your skills through further training measures
For further information concerning the tasks please contact Hajira Jabeen via phone +49 (0)221-47694-517 or via email . If you have questions about the application process, please contact Franca Tosetti via email.
Interested?
Please apply via our Online-application portal until 03.04.2024.
Our reference number is: KTS-60.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Sociology
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
Additional Information
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
- Country
- Germany
- City
- Cologne
- Postal Code
- 50667
- Street
- Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
Where to apply
- Website
https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/36766/Senior…
Contact
- City
Cologne- Website
http://www.gesis.org/home/- Street
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8- Postal Code
50667
[email protected]
STATUS: EXPIRED
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