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Postdoc (Adiunkt) in Linguistics, LexicAI machine translation project

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Applied Linguistics

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Type
Postdoctoral fellowship
Field
Linguistics and translation studies
Location
Warsaw, Poland
Dates
1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028
Funding
A full-time, two-year employment contract paying PLN 11,667 a month (the posting gives this as "brutto brutto", the employer's total cost including contributions), with the university's social benefits, conferences and training.
Deadline
27 Nov 2026
Eligibility
A PhD in linguistics, translation studies or a related humanities field, or in computer science, within the National Science Centre's postdoc window (awarded in the year you start or in the 12 years before). C2 English, quantitative methods such as corpus or computational linguistics or NLP, experience with translation technology, machine translation and generative AI, and a good publication record. Native or C2 Ukrainian, Czech, Swedish or Spanish, or a low-resource language, is a plus.

About this postdoctoral fellowship

LexicAI, funded through CHIST-ERA's "Science in Your Own Language" programme, is developing multilingual, multimodal machine translation for documents about AI, in both well-resourced and low-resource languages, with the University of Liverpool and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. The Warsaw linguistics team, led by Professor Łucja Biel, builds an AI terminology database and translation resources, then fine-tunes and tests the model and publishes the results. You apply by email to sekretariat.ils@uw.edu.pl with "LexicAI post-doc" in the subject, in Polish or English; the result is due by 7 December 2026. The full announcement is in Polish.

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https://konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document/4249/datafile/pdf

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