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Job opening: NLP / computational linguistics in an ERC project on heresy and inquisition
by David Zbíral 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear list members, With apologies for cross-posting: Perhaps some of you or your contacts might be interested in the following job opening in the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET, https://dissinet.cz), where we use computational methods to shed new light on medieval religious dissidence and inquisition. I am now searching for a computational linguist or NLP specialist to join the adventure - please see below. All the best, David Zbíral Number of open positions: 1 Expected start: 1 September 2021 (negotiable) Duration: 31 August 2022 (first contract), 31 August 2026 (very probable extension based on performance review) Deadline for applications: 30 April 2021 23:59 CEST (UTC+2) Full call and submission: https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/careers/vacancies/60994 The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET, https://dissinet.cz/) - an ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research initiative based at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) - offers a full-time postdoctoral or senior research fellowship in computational text analysis. The research of the successful applicant will focus on discursive patterns in medieval inquisitorial records, with the aim of shining a new light on the textual practices of inquisition notaries, the interaction at trial, the discourse of inquisition texts, and religious dissidence. We are searching for a research fellow with one of the following types of profile: (a) computational linguist, NLP specialist or text mining specialist, with a strong interest in history and ancient languages; (b) digital humanist, with a strong competence in Latin and experienced in historical research, programming, and the analysis of textual corpora; or (c) another kind of mixed/interdisciplinary profile, with some of the previously mentioned competencies and strong interest in working on a historical research project. The successful candidate will develop their own research direction in consultation with the Principal Investigator (Dr David Zbíral), focusing on the computational text processing and analysis of medieval inquisitorial records, e.g. building and maintaining NLP pipeline, stylometric and semantic analysis (word frequency and word co-occurrence, word embeddings, lexical dispersion, measures of lexical richness, measures of distance of texts, text reuse analysis, semantic distribution models) etc. DISSINET at large also works extensively on the manual coding of inquisitorial material, offering a close-reading layer to be compared and contrasted with the distant-reading analysis of the textual corpus provided by NLP techniques. DISSINET focuses on various computational approaches to Christian dissent and inquisition, also including social network analysis, geographic information science, and other techniques: the successful candidate will have the opportunity to produce mixed-methodology work in this collaborative context. The ERC-funded position thus represents a unique opportunity for building a truly cutting-edge research profile. The position is residential (although with reasonable flexibility for the duration of the pandemic). We are open to applications from those who have already completed their doctorates, and those who have submitted their thesis and are only awaiting the award of their degree. The candidate’s Ph.D. degree does not need to be recent for this position. Applications from female candidates are particularly encouraged. Please see https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/careers/vacancies/60994 for more information. Dr David Zbíral Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Dissident Networks Project (https://dissinet.cz) Associate Professor Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts Department for the Study of Religions, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion david.zbiral(a)mail.muni.cz<mailto:david.zbiral@mail.muni.cz>

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SIMS Virtual Lecture Series_VisColl 2.0
by Ransom, Lynn 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to announce the next installment of the SIMS Virtual Lecture Series. All are invited to attend! Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: Symbolizing the Elements That Create Manuscripts and Their Structural History with VisColl 2.0 Presented by Alberto Campagnolo, University of Udine Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn Libraries Friday, April 23, 2021, 1:00 -2:15pm (via Zoom) The ultimate working unit of the codex is the gathering structure known as the quire, a group of folded (or single) leaves bound together with other quires to form the text block. This structure, characterized by a limited number of elements and variations in their spatial arrangement, is fundamental to the study of the codex format for manuscript books. Traditionally, gathering structures are described in highly formalized alphanumerical formulaic representations, referred to as collation formulas. It is customary to include these formulas in paper-based and online catalogues. For what concerns manuscript studies, however, there are no actual standards, and different catalogues and scholars use their own set of rules and practices, making broader analysis difficult. In addition, the information density of collation formulas hinders the immediacy of their interpretation. In this lecture, creators Dot Porter, SIMS founding member and Curator of Digital Research Services, and Alberto Campagnolo, book conservator and adjunct professor at the University of Udine, will present a new version of the online collation modeler VisColl to address these challenges. VisColl 2.0, with its new interface VCEditor, has been updated to model complex structures, with quires, subquires, and a variety of attachment methods, also through an intuitive graphic interface that guides the user and permits data input without knowledge of the XML data model behind it. This event is free and open to the public. To receive the zoom link, click on this link to registration<https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/viscoll>.

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