Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data

Job description

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki invites applications for the position of: POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN COMPUTER SCIENCE OR DIGITAL HUMANITIES SPECIALIZING IN AUDIOVISUAL DATA for a fixed-term period of 36 months, starting in May 2026. This position is based at the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages and funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor Tuomo Hiippala . The project develops novel methods and resources for studying multimodality, or how humans communicate using combinations of multiple ‘modes’ of expression. These methods and resources are used to develop empirically founded theories of multimodal communication in the domain of everyday cultural artefacts. The data studied in the project includes, for example, school textbooks, news broadcasts and instruction manuals. RESPONSIBILITIES The post-doctoral researcher will participate in building a large multimodal corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland-Swedish, Sámi and Finnish Sign Language. The responsibilities of the appointee include developing approaches that use automatic speech recognition, computer vision models and other computational methods to annota...