<div dir="ltr">Dear all, a very interesting PhD position in digital humanities!<div><br></div><div>--<br><div><br></div><div><span id="m_-7644511246616447103gmail-docs-internal-guid-90915b81-7fff-7c1a-e50c-7b34dec3655d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">At the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, we are looking for a new doctoral researcher<b> </b>in the area of </span><a href="https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/19010" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Digital Humanities</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif">The research will focus on the innovative analysis of historical text corpora for the extraction and visualization of geographically related information in different time periods. By leveraging the power of machine learning, language and speech technologies and computer vision, we aim to uncover the spatial dimensions contained in digitized historical collections. Using the newly developed approaches and tools of corpus linguistics, our aim is to analyze and visualize the georeferenced data and, together with domain experts, to track the evolution of geographical references over time and provide new insights into the movement, spread and transformation of cultural, linguistic and historical phenomena. We would like the expected results to make important contributions to the fields of digital humanities, visual analytics and data visualization, and enable a deeper understanding of the geographical contexts that shape historical narratives.<br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite everyone interested in research work in this field to apply. </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Candidates will enroll in a doctoral program at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science. In your research work, you will be supported by an interdisciplinary research group in the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia with experience in all related fields. The research and doctoral studies will be conducted under the supervision of  </span><a href="http://lgm.fri.uni-lj.si/ciril" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Assist. Prof. Ciril Bohak, Ph.D.</span></a></p></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Contact: </span><a href="mailto:ciril.bohak@fri.uni-lj.si" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ciril.bohak@fri.uni-lj.si</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Place of work: Ljubljana, Slovenia</font></p></div></div></div></div>