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color="#000000">IRT SystemX and LIMSI offer 3-year PHD funding
at Orsay (near Paris, France)</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY"><font
color="#000000">Subject :<br>
Today the number of documents increases rapidly, and moreover
they are produced by multiple sources that can be classified by
type (texts, speech…), by style (blog, forum, tweet, broadcast
news, broadcast conversations, community tv…) and by language
(English, French, Chinese...). Reliability of the information
contained in these documents depends on each kind of source.
Thus, selecting relevant and reliable information from such
documents and summarizing it is problematic.</font></p>
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color="#000000"> The goal of the project is to build knowledge
bases about persons, products... (i.e. Named Entities).
Knowledge will be extracted from multiple documents and will
have to be combined by aggregation and data fusion. Thus the
information will result from multi-source, multilingual and
multimedia document extraction:</font></p>
<font color="#000000">- Multi-source: various types of documents
(spontaneous, prepared...) and providers of documents
(institution, individual, community...);</font><font
color="#000000"><br>
- Multimedia: texts, speech, scanned documents;</font><font
color="#000000"><br>
- Multilingual: different languages.</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US" align="JUSTIFY"><font
color="#000000">The work will focus on information
identification, extraction and structuring. Studied issues will
be:</font></p>
<font color="#000000">- assessment of information reliability;</font><font
color="#000000"><br>
- assessment of information relevance (degree of novelty, scarcity
of information);</font><font color="#000000"><br>
- detection and classification of contradictions.</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none" lang="en-US"
align="JUSTIFY"> <font color="#000000">The PHD student will
handle participation in international evaluation campaigns.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none" lang="en-US"
align="JUSTIFY"> <font color="#000000">The main location of the
PHD student will be IRT, and s/he will be supervised by LIMSI
senior researchers.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Supervisors:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000">Brigitte
Grau,
Professor at ENSIIE, LIMSI-CNRS </font> </p>
<font color="#000000">Sophie Rosset, Director of Research,
LIMSI-CNRS</font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000">TECHNICAL
REQUIREMENTS
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- Master in Computer Science, specialized in Machine learning
and Natural Language Processing will be appreciated<br>
- Solid programming skills <br>
- A good command of French is a plus <br>
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION <br>
Salary: 2300 euros per month <br>
Benefits: IRT offers a generous benefit package including health
insurance and about 44 days vacation pa. <br>
Duration: 3 years <br>
Start date: as soon as possible <br>
Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France, is located in a
green area about 30 minutes south of Paris. </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000">TO
APPLY <br>
Please send: <br>
* a cover letter <br>
* a curriculum vitae, including the academic results<br>
* the names and contact information of at least one referee<br>
to both: <br>
Brigitte Grau <a href="mailto:grouin@limsi.fr"><bg@limsi.fr></a>
<br>
Sophie Rosset <a href="mailto:rosset@limsi.fr"><rosset@limsi.fr></a>
</font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000">ABOUT
LIMSI-CNRS
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.limsi.fr">http://www.limsi.fr</a><br>
LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research
(CNRS), <br>
a leading research institution in Europe. <br>
LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number
of <br>
fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid
mechanics, <br>
energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and
text <br>
processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and
augmented <br>
reality. <br>
LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support
staff <br>
and graduate students. </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000">ABOUT
IRT-System
X</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm" lang="en-US"><font color="#000000"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.irt-systemx.fr">http://www.irt-systemx.fr</a></font></p>
<font color="#000000">An Institute for Technological Research (IRT)
is an interdisciplinary thematic institute that develops economic
sectors related to its field through a balanced strategic
public-private partnership. For this, it manages research programs
coupled with technology platforms, conducts research and
development projects at the international level, contributes to
the engineering of initial and continuous trainings (qualifying
professional training and/or degree delivering); and ensures the
exploitation of the obtained results. </font>
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Groupe ILES - LIMSI
Bât. 508, rue John von Neumann 91405 ORSAY Cedex
tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88
et
ENSIIE
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
1 square de la résistance, 91025 EVRY Cedex
tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09
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