Website North-West University
Opportunities open up when you enrol as a student of the North-West University. Besides an excellent tertiary education, we offer you a vibrant student life and plenty of scope to develop your talents in sport, arts and culture, community service and student leadership.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Research
- Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities.
Project work
- Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects.
Teaching
- Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities.
Mentorship
- Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities.
Minimum requirements
- A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital
- Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on
- computational aspects of linguistics.
- A minimum of (five) 5 years’ experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital
- Humanities domain can also be considered).
- Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications.
- A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience as a supervisor/co-supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals.
- A minimum of (three) 3 years’ experience with using and/or developing computational tools.
- A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities.
- A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities.
