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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>
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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>
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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
face="Calibri"> </font><img
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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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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
<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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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
<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>
<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">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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
<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>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
<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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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
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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">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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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
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<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="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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auto; page-break-after: auto" align="justify">
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</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"><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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</p>
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<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"><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>
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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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