[Corpora-List] Post-doctoral position in opinion mining

[Farah Benamara Zitoune]

Dear all,
please find below an announcement for a post-doctoral position at IRIT
(Toulouse, France).
Best Regards,
Farah Benamara



*** Post-doctoral position in opinion mining *****

  Profile : Natural language processing, machine learning. Experience in
  opinion mining and/or discourse analysis will be appreciated.

  Duration : 1 year
  Starting date: October 2010
  Place : IRIT, Toulouse
  Salary : 2143 euros/month
  Contact : Farah Benamara (benamara at irit.fr) and Nicholas Asher
(asher at irit.fr)
  Applications should include a detailed CV with a complete list of
  publications.
  The deadline for application is **** August 25, 2010 ****

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  The position is part of the CASOAR project (Chaîne d'Analyse Sémantique
  des Opinions, Appréciations et Représentations) under the RAPID-DGA
  program. The project includes the LILAC group at IRIT (Toulouse) and
  Synapse Développement company (Toulouse). It aims at a fine-grained
  analysis of opinion texts by the development of semantic and pragmatic
  models that go beyond the detection of expressions of “bag of sentiment
  words”. In this context, the candidate has to :
  - elaborate an annotation schema as well as an annotation guide for the
  analysis of opinion expressions at the sub-sentential
  level in French and in English
  - develop a discourse based segmentation tool of opinion texts. Existing
  segmentation tools developed at IRIT have to be adapted to take into
  account the specificity of opinion texts.
  - study some linguistic phenomenon.



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