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Researcher: African Wordnet Project
A three-year SADiLaR research role combining digital-language-resource research, training, academic project management and African Wordnet development.
North-West UniversityPotchefstroom Campus
Applications close6 August 2026
Employment typeThree-year fixed-term appointment
ReferenceP003816
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About this opportunity.
North-West University's South African Centre for Digital Language Resources is recruiting a researcher for the African Wordnet Project. The Potchefstroom-based role combines academic planning, digital language-resource research, training and day-to-day project management with the UNISA node and other collaborators.
WHAT THE ROLE INVOLVES
Responsibilities.
- Develop training events, short courses, workshop materials and supporting documentation for the ESCALATOR programme.
- Coordinate African Wordnet and ESCALATOR events, collaborators, databases and training resources.
- Contribute to teaching, workshop facilitation, research, publications and conference participation.
- Support strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, funding proposals and technical project reporting.
CHECK BEFORE APPLYING
Key requirements.
- A Master's degree at NQF level 9 in digital language resources, linguistics, natural-language processing, human-language technologies or a related field.
- At least three years' academic project-management experience.
- At least three years' digital language-resource creation and human-language-technologies research experience.
- Experience coordinating and training project workers or collaborators, working with lexicographical resources such as wordnets, and presenting workshops.