Sujet de these: 3-year PHD funding at Orsay (near Paris, France)

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:05:17 +0200
From: Brigitte Grau <bg at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <5419BF4D.3090407 at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.limsi.fr
X-url: http://www.irt-systemx.fr


IRT SystemX and LIMSI offer 3-year PHD funding at Orsay (near Paris,
France)

Subject :
Today the number of documents increases rapidly, and moreover they are
produced by multiple sources that can be classified by type (texts,
speech...), by style (blog, forum, tweet, broadcast news, broadcast
conversations, community tv...) and by language (English, French,
Chinese...). Reliability of the information contained in these documents
depends on each kind of source. Thus, selecting relevant and reliable
information from such documents and summarizing it is problematic.

The goal of the project is to build knowledge bases about persons,
products... (i.e. Named Entities). Knowledge will be extracted from
multiple documents and will have to be combined by aggregation and data
fusion. Thus the information will result from multi-source, multilingual
and multimedia document extraction:

- Multi-source: various types of documents (spontaneous, prepared...)
  and providers of documents (institution, individual, community...);
- Multimedia: texts, speech, scanned documents;
- Multilingual: different languages.

The work will focus on information identification, extraction and 
structuring. Studied issues will be:

- assessment of information reliability;
- assessment of information relevance (degree of novelty, scarcity of
  information);
- detection and classification of contradictions.

The PHD student will handle participation in international evaluation
campaigns.

The main location of the PHD student will be IRT, and s/he will be
supervised by LIMSI senior researchers.

Supervisors:

Brigitte Grau, Professor at ENSIIE, LIMSI-CNRS

Sophie Rosset, Director of Research, LIMSI-CNRS

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Master in Computer Science, specialized in Machine learning and 
  Natural Language Processing will be appreciated
- Solid programming skills
- A good command of French is a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Salary: 2300 euros per month
Benefits: IRT offers a generous benefit package including health 
insurance and about 44 days vacation pa.
Duration: 3 years
Start date: as soon as possible
Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France, is located in a green area
about 30 minutes south of Paris.

TO APPLY
Please send:
* a cover letter
* a curriculum vitae, including the academic results
* the names and contact information of at least one referee
to both:
     Brigitte Grau (bg at limsi.fr)
     Sophie Rosset (rosset at limsi.fr)

ABOUT LIMSI-CNRS
http://www.limsi.fr
LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research (CNRS),
a leading research institution in Europe.
LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number of
fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid mechanics,
energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and text
processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and augmented
reality.
LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support staff
and graduate students.

ABOUT IRT-System X

http://www.irt-systemx.fr

An Institute for Technological Research (IRT) is an interdisciplinary
thematic institute that develops economic sectors related to its field
through a balanced strategic public-private partnership. For this, it
manages research programs coupled with technology platforms, conducts
research and development projects at the international level,
contributes to the engineering of initial and continuous trainings
(qualifying professional training and/or degree delivering); and ensures
the exploitation of the obtained results.