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    Please find below the announcement of a postdoctoral position in the
    University of La Rochelle, France, on the topics of touristic event
    extraction and sentiment analysis.<br>
    <br>
    If you have a Ph.D in computer science and you have working
    knowledge in the fields of NLP, IR, Big data and/or ontologies, and
    if you like the idea of joining a dynamic research group that lies
    within walking distances of 3 different beaches, please let us know!<br>
    <br>
    If you have trouble viewing the description below, please visit the
    following url:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pageperso.univ-lr.fr/antoine.doucet/PostDoc_EventDetection.pdf">http://pageperso.univ-lr.fr/antoine.doucet/PostDoc_EventDetection.pdf</a><br>
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    Please note the short deadline: 14 April 2015!!<br>
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    (apologies for cross-posting)<br>
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        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            24pt" size="6"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">Post‐Doctoral
                Position</span></b></font></font></font><font
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            16pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">Sentiment
Analysis
                and </span></b></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            16pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">touristic
event
              </span></b></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 16pt" size="4"><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">extraction</span></b></font></font></font></p>
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">The
                L3i laboratory, within the Tourinflux project
                (</span></span></font></font></font><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">http</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">://</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">www</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">.</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">tourinflux</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">.</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">com</a><a
        href="http://www.tourinflux.com/">/</a><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              lang="en-US"><span style="background: #ffffff">)
                is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in computer
                science, on the
                topic of </span></span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">sentiment
                analysis and touristic </span></span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">event
              </span></span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              lang="en-US"><span style="background: #ffffff">extraction</span></span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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      <i><font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
              style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">Length:
                1</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">0</span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
                months</span></font></font></font></i></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" align="justify"><i><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Expected
                recruitment: 1</span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><sup><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="background: #ffffff">st</span></font></font></sup></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
                of </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">June
              </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">2015
              </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">or
                ASAP </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">–
              </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">the
                position is to be filled ASAP, and will last until </span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">the
                end of February </span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">2016.</span></font></font></font></i></p>
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><i><span style="background: #ffffff">Net
                salary: 2100 € monthly</span></i></font></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><i><span style="background: #ffffff">Location:
L3i
                laboratory, La Rochelle, France</span></i></font></font></font></p>
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      <i><font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
              style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">Fields:
                Computer Science / Natural Language Processin</span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">g
                / Semantic Web</span></font></font></font></i></p>
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      <i><font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
              style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
                #ffffff">Keywords:
                E-tourism, </span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Multilingual
NLP,
              </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Event
                extraction, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, </span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">NLP,
              </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Normalization</span></font></font></font><font
          color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
              12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
                (schema.org, TourInFrance), Semantic Web, Data analysis,
                spatiotemporal events.</span></font></font></font></i></p>
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            14pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">Job
                description:</span></b></font></font></font></p>
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      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">The
              work will be conducted in the informatics, image and
              interaction
              laboratory (L3i), within the Tourinflux project, </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">funded
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">by
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">a
              public investment program for the future</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
              (PIA). The L3i is a 120-person laboratory created in 1993.
              Hosted in
              the </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
            #ffffff">historical
          </span></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">and
              sunny city of La Rochelle (</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
            style="background: #ffffff"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.holidays-la-rochelle.co.uk/">http://www.holidays-la-rochelle.co.uk/</a></span></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">),
              it is ranked A by the French research evaluation agency
              (AERES).</span></font></font></font></p>
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">In
              addition to the L3i, the Tourinflux project involves 2
              companies and
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">the</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
              professional </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">association
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">for
              the digital economy</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">,
              in collaboration with several actors of the French tourism
              industry.
              The project aims at providing </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">actors
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">of
              the </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">touris</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">t</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
              industry with a set of tools allowing them to handle both
              their
              internal data, and the information available on the Web,
              so as to
              better diagnose and influence on the perception of
              territories. The
              tools currently available are insufficient, and a lot of
              the data
              gathering, analysis and processing is currently done by
              hand, or via
              the use of various </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">tools
              that are only </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">partially
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">satisfactory</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">.
              Tourinflux aims to provide an extensive dashboard,
              allowing all
              institutions, whatever their size, to visualize and </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">interpret</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
              the information available about their territory. This
              should allow
              them to improve their decision process and subsequently,
              their
              effectiveness.</span></font></font></font></p>
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      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Specifically,
              t</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">his
              postdoctoral position will focus on the </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">automated
              extraction of touristic events </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">and/</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">or
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">opinion
              mining over touristic objects</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">.
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">Both
              subjects will be considered </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">on
              equal grounds</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
              and the </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">ability
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">of
              the candidate will be the main recruitment criteria. </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">The
              techniques to be used will need to be applicable to any
              language.</span></font></font></font></p>
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          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">(</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">Semi</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">)</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">-automated

                  </span></b></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
              face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">extraction </span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">of
                    tourist</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">ic</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff"> </span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">events</span></b></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">:</span></b></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
    </ol>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 100%;
      page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Tourism
              information is both heterogeneous (free text, Web page,
              pictures, …)
              and semi-structured. </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Extracting
              touristic</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">
              information is a major challenge at a time when the masses
              of
              unstructured information are constantly evolving, be it on
              the Web or
              within </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">organizations.</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">The
              task of the recruited postdoctoral researcher </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">will
              be</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">
              to </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">extract
              touristic events and insert information into a given
              representation
              model. </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">Two
              key challenges were identified:</span></font></font></font></p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          100%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="background: #ffffff">Adapting NLP techniques to
                  the specific domain of tourism information, and
                  extract the key features of the field</span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;
          page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background:
                    #ffffff">Understanding and feeding </span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">the </span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">given models of repre</span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">se</span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: #ffffff">ntations for touristic
                    data.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" align="justify"><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">Recent
              work on </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">the
              temporal analysis of </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">natural
              language, so as to grasp the opening hours of touristic
              objects
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">remains
              to be</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: transparent">
              integrated</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">.
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: transparent">It
              will be a plus if the recruited </span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">postdoctoral
            </span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: transparent">researcher
              is able to integrate this work within the event extraction
              process.</span></font></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-left: 0.5cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight:
      normal; line-height: 100%; page-break-before: auto;
      page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <br>
    </p>
    <ol start="2">
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;
          page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <span style="background: transparent"><font
              color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                  style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Sentiment analysis
                  </b></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
                face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>over

                    touristic objects</b></font></font></font></span></p>
      </li>
    </ol>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 100%;
      page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
          transparent">The
          postdoctoral researcher will be in charge of extracting
          sentiment
          from online data, e.g, evaluation platforms (such as
          tripadvisor),
          blogs, microblogs, … The extracted data is to be adapated to
          our
          own opinionated mark-up language (see, eg, SentiML). This task
          will
          require three steps:</span></font></p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          100%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="background: transparent">Given a touristic
                  object, fetch online information about it;</span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" align="justify">
          <span style="background: transparent"><font color="#333333"><font
                face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                    style="font-weight: normal">E</span></font></font></font><font
              color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                  style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                    style="font-weight: normal">xtract sentiment about
                    the object;</span></font></font></font></span></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" align="justify">
          <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="font-weight: normal"><span style="background:
                    transparent">Fill </span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: transparent">our </span></span></font></font></font><font
            color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
                12pt" size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
                    style="background: transparent">annotation schema.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            14pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">Specific
                requirements:</span></b></font></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%;
      page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto">
      <font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
          #ffffff">Candidates
          must have PhD in computer science, with abilities in knowledge
          representation and data mining. Research experience is also
          required
          in at least 2 of the following domains: </span></font>
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Natural Language Processing,
                Text mining </span></font></font> </p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Information Retrieval</span></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Big Data and Data Warehouses
                (eg, Hadoop) </span></font></font> </p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Modeling, Ontologies and
                inference engines</span></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Annotation and Evaluation
                methodologies</span></font></font></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 100%;
      page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            14pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">General
                requirements:</span></b></font></font></font></p>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          108%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"> <font
            face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                style="background: #ffffff">One or more of the following
                programming languages: Python, C/C++, java…</span></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          100%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="background: #ffffff">Team-work skills
                  (knowledge of Agile methodologies would be a plus)</span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height:
          100%; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"
          align="justify"> <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font
                style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                  style="background: #ffffff">Proven ability for
                  scientific writing</span></font></font></font></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p style="margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight:
      normal; line-height: 100%; page-break-before: auto;
      page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            14pt" size="4"><b><span style="background: #ffffff">To
                apply:</span></b></font></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify"><a name="h.gjdgxs"></a>
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">All
              candidates are required to send a resume, an expression of
              interest,
              and the names and contact information of at least 2
              references
              (including email ad</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">d</span></font></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><span style="background: #ffffff">resses)
              to</span></font></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background:
            #ffffff">:</span></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          face="Calibri"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
              style="background: #ffffff">
            </span></font></font></font>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="center">
      <font color="#333333"><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:
            12pt" size="3"><b><span style="background: #ffffff"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mickael.coustaty@univ-lr.fr">mickael.coustaty@univ-lr.fr</a></span></b></font></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
      auto; page-break-after: auto" align="center">
      <font color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b><span
              style="background: #ffffff"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr">antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr</a></span></b></font></font></p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><br>
    </p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%"><font
        color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Please
                note that applications must be sent at the latest on </span></b></u></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">Tues</span></b></u></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">day
              </span></b></u></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">14</span></b></u></font></font><font
        color="#333333"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">
              </span></b></u></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">April
              </span></b></u></font></font><font color="#333333"><font
          style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><u><b><span
                style="background: #ffffff">at
                23:59 CET</span></b></u></font></font></p>
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Antoine Doucet
Full Professor
L3i - Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction
University of La Rochelle - IUT de La Rochelle
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