Doctoral Grants at Departments of Literature and Linguistics 2017, Belgium

The Platform for Digital Humanities in the University of Antwerp engages with multiple aspects of the application of computing technologies in the Humanities. The CLiPS research center focuses on the application of statistical and machine learning methods in language technology. Scholars in the department of literature focus on the application of X-technologies and Machine Learning in literary studies. The department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Liège has developed a strong expertise in machine learning and its application in various fields such as computer vision. In this latter domain, ULg partners involved in the project have developed the opensource Cytomine platform for advanced image analysis.

Job description

• You prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of machine/deep learning, language technology, and computer vision in the context of heritage studies.
• You publish scientific articles related to the research project of the assignment.
• You contribute to teaching and research in the host departments.

Profile and requirements

• You hold a master degree in a field, broadly relevant to Digital Humanities, Art History, Computer Science, Linguistics, Computer Vision, and/or Machine Learning.
• You can submit outstanding academic results.
• Foreign candidates are encouraged to apply.
• You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative.
• The ideal candidate will have demonstrable, first-hand experience in Machine Learning for computer vision or for Language Technology (in the Digital Humanities), in particular distributional semantics (word embeddings) and representation learning.
• You have an excellent knowledge of academic English. Knowledge of Dutch or French is not required but is an asset for the project.
• The ideal candidate has demonstrable experience in a programming language such as Python, and ideally also deep learning frameworks, such as Tensorflow or PyTorch.
• The ideal candidate will have a broad interest in heritage, the GLAM sector and/or art history. The focus in your teaching corresponds to the educational vision of the university.
• Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the university’s policy.
• You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative.