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Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Chris Wellekens

6-12 (2015-10-06) POST-DOC OPENING IN STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
  

POST-DOC OPENING
IN STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
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The 'Spoken Language Processing' team at LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (25 km south of
Paris) is seeking qualified postdoctoral researchers in the field of Statistical
Natural Language Processing (see https://www.limsi.fr/en/research/tlp/).

* Description of the work

This position is related to a collaborative project aimed at developping 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 news 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.

In this context, the candidate is expected to develop innovative methods for
performing unsupervised cross-domain and/or cross-lingual adaptation of
statistical NLP tools.

* Requirements and objectives

Candidates are expected to hold an Engineering BSc/Msc degree and a PhD in
Computer Science. Knowledge of statistical  or example-based approaches for
Speech or Natural Language Processing is required; the candidate is also
expected to have strong programmation skills, to be familiar with statistical
machine learning techniques and to have a good publication record in the
field.

Salary and other conditions of employments will follow CNRS standard rules
for non-permanent researchers, according to the experience of the candidate.

* Contacts : Francois Yvon - francois.yvon at limsi.fr

Interested candidates should send a short cover letter stating motivation and
interests, along with their CV (in .pdf format, only) and names and addresses of
two references, to the email address given above as soon as possible and by nov
1st, 2015 at the latest. The contract is expected to start Jan 1st, 2016.

Informal questions regarding this position should be directed to the same address.


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