22.4290, Jobs: Comp Ling; Text Data Mining: Post Doc, INALCO CNRS UMR SEDYL

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Date: 28-Oct-2011
From: Isabelle LEGLISE [leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Text Data Mining: Post Doc, INALCO CNRS UMR SEDYL, Paris - Campus CNRS de Villejuif, France


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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:55:16
From: Isabelle LEGLISE [leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Text Data Mining: Post Doc, INALCO CNRS UMR SEDYL, Paris - Campus CNRS de Villejuif, France

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University or Organization: INALCO CNRS UMR SEDYL 
Department: LABEX EFL
Job Location: Paris - Campus CNRS de Villejuif, France 
Web Address: http://sedyl.vjf.cnrs.fr/
Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text Data Mining; Computer Science


Description:

Postdoctoral research fellow : Text data mining applied to heterogeneous and 
multilingual corpora 

We offer a 12 months postdoc position in text data mining within the 10-year 
LABEX project 'Empirical foundations of linguistics' (LABEX EFL) that started 
in 2011. The position is based in Paris, at the UMR SEDYL (CNRS-INALCO-
IRD). It is linked to the strand «Typology and dynamics of linguistic 
systems» of this project, and more specifically to the research programme 
supervised by Isabelle Léglise: Multifactorial Analysis of language contact & 
language changes (LC1).

The candidate should have a PhD in computational linguistics/computer 
science, and should be an expert in the field of data mining, preferably on a 
linguistic field of application (text mining, natural language processing) 
involving large-dimension data/texts. The candidate should have experience 
of XML format. A knowledge of TEI standards will be a plus. S/he must know 
how to program in C language; C ++ or Java. S/he will use the relational 
model of databases and the SQL language; knowledge of MySQL is an 
advantage. An interest for linguistic diversity is a good point.

This task consists in developing functions of search/data mining applied to 
language contact corpora, that is to transcriptions of non-homogeneous and 
mixed verbal productions collected in multilingual areas (38 languages from 
all continents involved). This scenario is traditionally little taken into account 
by the algorithms of computational linguistics (grammatical inference or 
lexical labeling). We expect to find correlations of certain categories, or 
certain syntactical positions, with language contact or language change 
phenomena.

Given the large number of variables to be analyzed, with regard to the size of 
the corpus (large number of samples), we will need to explore approaches in 
data dimensionality reduction such as 'manifold learning'.

Duration: 12 months, starting December 2011 or January 2012. It is a full-
time position

Salary: 24 000 EUR/year

More information on the position can be found at 
http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=en/hiring/lc1 or by contacting Isabelle Léglise 
(leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr) and Pascal Vaillant (vaillant at vjf.cnrs.fr).

If you are interested, please send a CV (including a publication list), a letter 
of application and the names of two referents to:

Isabelle Léglise (leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr), Pascal Vaillant (vaillant at vjf.cnrs.fr) & 
Anaid Donabédian (adonabedian at inalco.fr)


Application Deadline: 10-Nov-2011 
	  
Email Address for Applications: leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Isabelle LEGLISE 
	Email: leglise at vjf.cnrs.fr 




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