36.3100, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Postdoctoral Research Position, University of Konstanz

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Subject: 36.3100, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Postdoctoral Research Position, University of Konstanz

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Date: 14-Oct-2025
From: Miriam Butt [miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Postdoctoral Research Position, University of Konstanz


Job Location: Europe, Germany
Web Address: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Position
Job Rank: Post Doc
Salary: E13 Salary Scale

Minimum Education: PhD

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics

Description:
Applications are invited for one 4-year, full-time postdoctoral
research position as part of the project "Inequality Discourse
Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part
of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality"
(https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/).
The position is available as of January 1, 2026 and focuses on the
collection and processing of large-scale corpora with methods from
linguistics, NLP and computational social science to identify and
analyze political discourse about inequality. We will be looking at a
number of different situations (climate change and economic investment
policies) across a number of different languages, thus valuing
competence in the following languages: English, German, Swedish,
Spanish, Urdu/Hindi, Tamil or any other South Asian language. This
work will be a close collaboration with researchers from both
Computational Social Science and Computational Linguistics, with
additional collaborations with political scientists, economists, and
sociologists.
Applicants should have a PhD degree in computational linguistics,
computational social science, or related areas
Previous work on issues of automated political text analysis is an
advantage
Knowledge of Python programming is advantageous

Application Deadline: 15-Nov-2025
Mailing Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/en/jobposting/7778a86851392ef312bd63af1c9e55cffb7012c70/apply
        Germany
Web Address for Applications:
https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7778a86851392ef312bd63af1c9e55cffb7012c70
Contact Information:
        Miriam Butt
        Email: miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de



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