Research Data Engineer in Natural Language Processing

In the context of the upcoming interdisciplinary project "impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II" ("impresso doppio"), the EPFL Digital Humanities Laboratory is looking for a research data engineer who will work with us on the design, development and evaluation of large-scale text mining pipelines for multilingual historical newspaper and radio archives.

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About the project:

"impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II" is an interdisciplinary research project which aims to pioneer new approaches to the joint exploration of newspaper and radio archive contents across time, languages, and national borders. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (2023-2027), it is carried by the EPFL DHLAB , the Department of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich, the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the History Department of the University of Lausanne, with the additional support of 21 European partners.

Computational linguists, computer scientists, digital humanists, historians, and designers will work closely together to enrich and connect newspaper and radio sources through multiple layers of cutting-edge semantic enrichments represented in a shared multilingual vector space, and to design adequate, meaningful and transparent exploration capabilities for (data-driven) historical research in transnational and transmedia perspective. Impresso doppio follows on from the first impresso project which developed a scalable architecture for the processing of Swiss and Luxembourgish newspaper collections and created an interface with powerful search, filter and discovery functionalities based on semantic enrichments. The present project puts forward the vision of a complete connection between media archives across languages and media types.

• Application deadline: 21.04.2023.
• Interviews: End of April.
• Place of work: EPFL DHLAB, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Salary: according to EPFL salary scales and experience.
• How to apply: please upload your application (full CV and cover letter) via this portal.

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