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Title: Post-doc position on the textual analysis of historical
newspapers.<br>
Location: L3i laboratory, La Rochelle, France<br>
Duration: 2 years, with possible extension<br>
Net salary range: 2000€-2500 € monthly (based on experience)<br>
Context: H2020 NewsEye project<br>
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Keywords: any-language approaches, noisy data (OCR), named-entity
recognition and linking, sentiment analysis, event detection,
deep/machine learning, statistical NLP, (text) data mining<br>
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position on
the semantic enrichment of historical newspapers. The NewsEye
project is a consortium of 11 groups from data providers (European
national libraries) to digital humanities research groups, via
computer science research aiming at improving access to the content
of historical newspapers (full details on the <a
href="http://newseye.eu/">NewsEye</a> project website).<br>
In the University of La Rochelle, we are coordinating the project
and specifically focusing on the semantic enrichment of historical
newspapers, performing: named entity recognition and linking,
sentiment analysis and event detection. The research challenges to
be addressed in this context are plenty: multilingual data written
in several European langages, noisy text resulting from imperfect
OCR and document layout analysis, etc.<br>
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The research fellow will be expected to conduct research and
experiments, as well as to assist with project management and the
supervision of PhD and master students.<br>
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The work will be conducted in the informatics, image and interaction
laboratory (L3i), within the <a href="http://newseye.eu/">Horizon
2020 NewsEye project</a>, coordinated locally. The L3i is a
100-person computer science laboratory created in 1993, hosted in
the heart of the historical and sunny seaside city of <a
href="https://www.google.com/search?q=la+rochelle&tbm=isch">La
Rochelle</a>.<br>
The context of work is rather vivid, with a growing international
team around two H2020 projects, and several international events
organised locally (CICLing 2019 in April, a 2-week summer school on
document analysis and understanding in July 2019, etc.).<br>
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What we search for:<br>
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- a PhD in Computer Science followed by at least 2 years of
postdoctoral experience<br>
- past experience in statistical NLP, IR, or ML<br>
- proven record of high-level publications in one or more of those
fields<br>
- fluency in written and spoken English (please note:
French-language skills are irrelevant)<br>
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Applications including a CV and a one-page research statement
discussing how the candidate's background fits requirements and
topic are to be sent to by email to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr">antoine.doucet@univ-lr.fr</a>,
strictly with the subject "NewsEye postdoc application".<br>
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled (expected
start: March or April 2019).<br>
Applications will processed in the begining of January 2019.<br>
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Antoine Doucet
Full Professor
L3i - Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction
University of La Rochelle - IUT de La Rochelle
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pageperso.univ-lr.fr/antoine.doucet/">http://pageperso.univ-lr.fr/antoine.doucet/</a> </pre>
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