Research Assistant (PhD Student) (m/f/d)

The SFB 1475 “Metaphers of Religion” is an interdisciplinary research association with 19 subprojects and more than 40 scientists. He bundles expertise from religious science, various philologies, digital humanities and computer linguistics to investigate how metaphors shape religious sensual processes. Research is carried out both historically and culturally comparable and using advanced computer linguistic methods. For further information, see https://sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Content of funding by the German Research Foundation, on the SFB 1475, in the subproject C07 “Morgenglanz der Eternity: Form-based properties of metaphors in songbook songs and other religious texts” on 01.07.2026, a position as a scientific assistant:in (doctorand:in; TV-L. The place is fixed by 31.12.2029. The C07 project deals with form-based, i.e. syntactic and distributional, aspects of metaphors in German, which are underrepresented in previous research. On the basis of manual and semi-automatic annotations of Protestant and Catholic church songs, for example, syntactic relations within metaphors and their contribution to the metaphorical mapping between source and target are investigated.

• body preparation and preparation (metadata, tokenization up to syntactic-semantic analysis) • Development of appropriate methods for (semi-)automatic metaphor analysis • Coordination and support of student assistants

• A completed master's degree (or equivalent) in computer linguistics or a comparable subject is desired • Very good knowledge of programming (Python) and machine learning • Very good German knowledge • Willingness to work on the subject (religion, metaphors) • Experiences with neuronal models are desired Competence in at least one of the two languages and the willingness to acquire the other are assumed.

ZWE CERES: Computer linguistics We are looking for 01.07.2026 limited in parttime (29.87 hours/week = 75 %) Volume: Parttime Duration: fixed, 31.12.2029 Start: 01.07.2026 Apply until: 01.04.2026 Demanding and varied tasks with high self-responsibility An employment at one of the largest universities in Germany in the association of the University Alliance Ruhr Possibilities of location-flexible work (mobile work and telework) Support for the reconciliation of family and work (including care services/ferienangebote/mobile Kinderzimmer) Extensive continuing and continuing training opportunities Integration into the integrated Research Training Group of the SFB 1475 with targeted funding offerings and active support options for doctoral researchers Further information: Employment is in the employment relationship and is governed by the collective agreement of the countries (TV-L). The grouping takes place in the event of the fulfilment of the personal and collective conditions in the E13 TV-L remuneration group. For further information, see https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/. The office is the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. If the financing of the recruitment is carried out exclusively by external third-party donors, there is no obligation for employees to take over teaching obligations.

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