Student Assistant - Sign Language Video Processing

Student Assistant - Sign Language Video Processing (24454)

Tilburg University | School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

is looking for a

Student Assistant – Sign Language Video Processing

Department:
Computational Cognitive Science

Hybrid

Contact size: 0.2 fte (8 hours per week)

Part-time employment (0.2 fte) gross monthly salary: € 895-915

Intended start date:
October 1st, 2026

This project focuses on data processing of sign language video data from the XSL Hotel Review Corpus, a multilingual parallel corpus of Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal - NGT), Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal - VGT), Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de Signos Espanola, LSE), written English, Dutch, Spanish and Irish. The data are in the form of text for written languages and of video for sign languages.

A current limitation of the corpus is that there is no alignment between written sentences and video fragments, and no annotation available.

The goal of this project is to perform some processing (e.g. Media Pipe) and analysis of the data (of one or more languages), and to explore using these for annotating the corpus: e.g. phrase/utterance level segmentation, and/or sign spotting and annotation.

Your position:

For this role we are looking for a student assistant with advanced programming skills who is interested in processing videos, analysing spatial-temporal data, and has experience with similar projects. Some prior knowledge of multimodal visual language or sign language is a plus.

Your profile

• You are enrolled as a student at Tilburg University and have obtained at least 60 ECTS in a university bachelor’s program or at least 20 credits in a master’s program.
• Minimum CEFR level [C2/C1/B1] English. Dutch is not required.
• You have a data science, computer science, or computational linguistics background.
• You have experience with spatial-temporal data.

What do we offer?

Tilburg University offers excellent benefits in a pleasant working environment:

• Employment of 0.2 fte (8 hours per week).
• Salary between €895 and 915 gross per month for part-time employment (0.2 fte) ((UFO profile Student Assistant, salary scale SA). Salary depending on the course year you are in.
• This is a vacancy for a Student Assistant who 2. contributes to scientific education or research in accordance with Article 10.1 paragraph 2 CLA Dutch Universities. You will receive a temporary contract for the duration of 2 months.
• Vacation pay of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.
• More than 8 weeks of vacation leave.
• If you don’t have student grants, reimbursement for sustainable commuting: walking, cycling and public transportation.
• Inclusive work culture: everyone welcome, equal opportunities.

You will ideally start working for Tilburg University on 1st of October 2026.

About Tilburg University

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