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At the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) within the Faculty of Humanities, we have around 120 employees and teaching volume covering approximately 350 full-time students. We host numerous large international and interdisciplinary research projects in areas such as theoretical and practical philosophy, logic, linguistics, computational linguistics, language technology, and theory of science. Our research has many applications and collaborations with other scientific fields, including biology, computer science, economics, history of ideas, law, medicine, psychology, religion, political science, and engineering sciences. We educate philosophers, logicians, linguists, language technologists, science theorists, historians of philosophy, and philosophy teachers. The department also conducts doctoral education and development work in its fields. If you are interested in working in an international, dynamic, and collaborative environment, FLoV offers an inspiring place for research and education.
Work Tasks
Within the RJ-funded research program Change is Key!, we are building methods to automatically detect language changes and support research in text-based humanities and social sciences. As part of this work, we require digital text masses to be manually annotated with linguistic information (such as text parts like articles or paragraphs, part of speech, clause parts, named expressions, conferences) and for isolated linguistic units (words, sentences, etc.) to be classified according to various linguistic properties (e.g., "same or different meaning", "positive or negative attitude"). The main work tasks will consist of such linguistic analysis and annotation of materials in Swedish and/or English.
Qualifications
For this position, skills are required either in Swedish at language level C2 or in English at native speaker level. Additionally, the ability to perform linguistic analysis, acquired through academic studies in language technology/computational linguistics, linguistics/general linguistics, Swedish, or another language subject is required.
Employment
Intermittent employment, needs-based hourly position. A total of 200 hours will likely be distributed among one or more persons based on an assessment of merit, skill, and individual availability. Position located at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
The selected candidate may be offered hours from February 1, 2026, to the end of November 2026. Each offer is an individual employment opportunity, and you have the right to accept or decline each offer. Each accepted work opportunity constitutes a new employment relationship/decision.
Hourly wage of 140 SEK per worked hour.
Payment will occur the month following work completion. No compensation for inconvenient work hours (outside weekdays 07:00-19:00) unless specifically stated in individual hour offers that work is to be performed during inconvenient hours.
Contact Information
For questions about the assignment, please contact Research Assistant Netta Huebscher,
[email protected]
For questions about the intermittent employment process, please contact HR Administrator Jennifer Stråle,
[email protected]
Trade Union Representatives
Trade union representatives at the University of Gothenburg can be found here: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/hjalp-for-sokande
Application
Apply for the position through the University of Gothenburg's recruitment portal, select personnel category and organization "Faculty of Humanities", click on the job title in the list to open the advertisement and then click "Apply" at the bottom of the ad. Applicants are responsible for ensuring their application is complete according to the advertisement and submitted by the final application date.
Note that the following documents must be attached to the application (PDF format):
• Cover letter
• CV
• Grades and/or certificates
• Other documents and appendices (optional)
Application deadline: 2025-11-27
The university actively works towards a work environment with equal conditions and values the qualities diversity brings to the organization.
The university applies individual salary setting.
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