Post-doc, Amsterdam
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Inserito il 06/05/2015
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Postdoctoral position in Digital Humanities at University of Amsterdam: Deep patterns in longue durée history
The Faculties of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and of VU University Amsterdam offer a postdoc position on a Digital Humanities project that will involve close collaboration between the two universities and between the humanities and computer science. The postdoc will collaborate in the new Digital Humanities research group 'QuPiD2: Quality and Perspectives in Deep Data', a project that is part of the Amsterdam Academic Alliance Data Science Program. The Digital Humanities postdoc will be connected to the Network Institute at VU University and with the Center for Digital Humanities at UvA.
Project description
80% of digital data is in unstructured textual form. Textual data is rich and complex. Not only does it contain massive amounts of statements but, more importantly, it also reflects our perspective on these statements: our emotions, opinions, the interpersonal, as well as the current social debate. Textual data is therefore not only big but it is also deep, adding a multitude of complexity. This Digital Humanities project will model quality and perspectives in deep data. Together with a group of researchers (1 postdoc, 2 PhD’s) and a committed group of advisers from various disciplines, the postdoc of this project will help to deliver a framework for deep data representation that makes data provenance, quality and perspective explicit in the way such data is described and consumed.
In this project, the postdoc will investigate long-term changes of perspectives and perception in cultural texts (fiction, biographies, pedagogical texts, journals, newspapers and encyclopedias), through emotion analysis, topic modeling, and genre analysis. By elaborating on data sets and NLP techniques that have recently been developed in other projects, the postdoc will cluster, classify and interpret different perspectives on topics that feature in currently available machine-readable Dutch texts from 1600-2000.
For more information, see http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/15-116.html?page=2&pageSize=20
