[LFG] Postdoc position: textual analysis of historical newspapers (H2020 NewsEye project)

[Antoine Doucet]

***Post‐Doctoral Position*


*Textual analysis of historical newspapers*



Title: Post-doc position on the textual analysis of historical newspapers.
Location: L3i laboratory, La Rochelle, France
Duration: 2 years, with possible extension
Net salary range: 2000€-2500 € monthly (based on experience)
Context: H2020 NewsEye project

Keywords: any-language approaches, noisy data (OCR), named-entity 
recognition and linking, sentiment analysis, event detection, 
deep/machine learning, statistical NLP, (text) data mining

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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 NewsEye <http://newseye.eu/> project 
website).
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.

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.

The work will be conducted in the informatics, image and interaction 
laboratory (L3i), within the Horizon 2020 NewsEye project 
<http://newseye.eu/>, 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 La Rochelle 
<https://www.google.com/search?q=la+rochelle&tbm=isch>.
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.).

What we search for:

- a PhD in Computer Science followed by at least 2 years of postdoctoral 
experience
- past experience in statistical NLP, IR, or ML
- proven record of high-level publications in one or more of those fields
- fluency in written and spoken English (please note: French-language 
skills are irrelevant)


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 antoine.doucet at univ-lr.fr, strictly with the subject 
"NewsEye postdoc application".
Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled (expected 
start: March or April 2019).
Applications will processed in the begining of January 2019.


-- 
Antoine Doucet
Full Professor
L3i - Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction
University of La Rochelle - IUT de La Rochelle
http://pageperso.univ-lr.fr/antoine.doucet/  

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