Post-doctoral positions at LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Saclay (Paris Sud)
University.

LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic
processing of human language for a range of tasks.

LIMSI invites applications for 1 one-year Postdoctoral position in
Natural Language Processing.  The topic is as follows:

Dialogue management in a human-machine dialogue system where the
system plays the role of a patient during a medical consultation with
a doctor.

CONTEXT

The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to the following
project:

Patient Genesys (http://www.patient-genesys.com/): in the
framework of continuous medical education, the goal of the project is to
design and develop a framework for virtual patient-doctor consultation.
This is a collaborative project including a hospital and small and
medium enterprises.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational
  Linguistics
- Solid programming skills
- Strong publication record
- A good command of French is a plus
- Knowledge of medical terminologies and ontologies is a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Net salary: between 2000 and 2400 ??? per month according to experience

Benefits: LIMSI offers a generous benefit package including health
insurance and 44 days vacation pa.

Duration: 12 months, renewable depending on performance and funding
availability

Start date: 1st October 2014

Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France

TO APPLY

Please send:
* a cover letter
* a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications
* the names and contact information of at least two referees
to both:
     Sophie Rosset (rosset@limsi.fr)
     Anne-Laure (annlor@limsi.fr)
     Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz@limsi.fr)

Application deadline:  October 15th, 2014
Applications will be examined in the following week.

ABOUT LIMSI-CNRS

LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research (CNRS),
a leading research institution in Europe.

LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number of
fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid mechanics,
energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and text
processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and augmented
reality.

LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support staff
and graduate students. It is located in a green area about 30 minutes
south of Paris.