Job: Post-doc position on Information Extraction in Nancy, France

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:54:35 +0200
From: Yannick Toussaint <Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr>
Message-Id: <BA4845CE-8E1E-46B4-81A7-82E697B543DB at loria.fr>


An Information Extraction Platform For Ontology Engineering

The Orpailleur team offers a 1-year post-doctoral position in Nancy,
France, starting in Autumn 2014. This project aims at improving existing
tools and developing a complete platform of information extraction that
annotates texts in an rdf (or similar) format. The result of this
process should be used to build an ontology but this is out of the scope
of this project. However, in order to fulfill requirements coming from
the ontological level, the EI process may be progressively improved,
i.e. discovering new entities, new features or new relations. Thus,
experts that guide the process should be able to interact with the IE
platform and apply some data mining tools and machine learning methods
to identify new feature of interest.

Candidates applying for this position should have a PhD in Computer
Sciences with a good background in Natural Language Processing and
Information Extraction. Knowledge about Data Mining and Machine Learning
would be greatly appreciated. In addition, abilities and experience in
programming in C, C++ or Java are wished. This work comes within the
scope of the "Hybride ANR Project" which aims at extracting from PubMed
texts some knowledge about rares diseases. The candidate will have to
work jointly with another post-doc researcher on Formal Concept Analysis
that will be in charge of conceptualizing the ontology.

LORIA lab is located in Nancy, East of France. It is among the largest
computer science research laboratories in France involving several
research organizations such as CNRS, INRIA Nancy Grand Est and Lorraine
University. It is a very large and challenging research environment with
29 research teams and excellent computing facilities. Working languages
are French or English.

Contact : Yannick Toussaint (Yannick.Toussaint at loria.fr)