Post-doc position at IMMI-CNRS

A post-doctoral position is proposed at IMMI-CNRS (Orsay, France - http://www.immi-labs.org/). IMMI is an International Joint Research CNRS Unit (UMI) in the field of Multimedia and Multilingual Document Processing. It gathers three contributing partners: LIMSI-CNRS, RWTH Aachen and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

Context of the project

The project relies on an experimental platform for online monitoring of social media and information streams, with self-adaptive properties, in order to detect, collect, process, categorize, and analyze  multilingual streams.  The platform includes  advanced linguistic analysis, discourse analysis, extraction of entities and terminology, topic detection,  translation and the project includes studies on unsupervised and cross-lingual adaptation.

Requirements and objectives

A PhD in a field related to the project (translation, natural language processing or machine learning) is required. The candidate will perform research in the framework mentioned above, and will supervize collection and annotation of the data. Salary will follow CNRS standard rules for contractual researchers, according to the experience of the candidate.

Contacts

• Gilles Adda (adda [at] immi-labs.org)

Agenda

• Opening date: August 2014
• Application deadline: Open until filled
• Duration: 24 months