[Corpora-List] Call For PostDoc Position - University of Orl éans - France

[Gaël Dias]

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The Constraints and Machine Learning research group at the Laboratoire LIFO (http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/) of the University of Orléans (France) is seeking post doctoral candidates with background in Text Mining and Knowledge Discovery for a one year appointment starting at the latest in January 2011.


The research project :
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The post doctoral position will take place in a bilateral research project with the University of Beira Interior (Portugal). The project concerns the development of new approaches to build a prototype-based ontology from the observation of co-occurrences of terms inside a corpus. We use the formalism of Pretopology to model the degree of generality/specificity as well as the semantic 
closeness between terms based on asymmetric similarities.


The prospective candidates must:
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* have a PhD in Computer Science
* not have the French citizenship
* have knowledge in the theoretical and practical aspects of one or more of the following:

 - Knowledge discovery from texts
 - Information Retrieval
 - Clustering and categorization
 - Graph models for data analysis

* have well-developed social skills directed to work in a team
* have a good command of English


The position offers:
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* a full time appointment for a period of 12 months
* about 1900 euros net monthly salary
* attractive and good working environments


Application details:
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please apply as soon as possible. A first selection of candidates will be carried out during May 2010.

* Please send:
 - a CV (including publication record)
 - a brief research description presenting your Phd and related research interests (1-2 page(s))
 - your two best publications in connection with the present research project

* The application must be sent by email to:

	Dr Guillaume Cleuziou (guillaume.cleuziou at univ-orleans.fr)
	Dr Gaël Harry Dias (ddg at di.ubi.pt)



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