[Corpora-List] Job offer : post-doct or engineer ; ANR Project "Technologies Logicielles" - PIITHIE

From: Nicolas Hernandez (nicolas.hernandez@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2006 - 16:51:08 MET DST

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    In the context of the PIITHIE Project, entitled "Plagiats et Impacts
    de l'Information Textuelle recHerchée dans un contexte InterlinguE",
    sponsored by french ANR
    (National Agency for Research), program "Technologies Logicielles"
    2006, the NLP Team of the LINA Laboratory at the University of Nantes
    is looking for a candidate to fill a full-time postdoctoral or
    engineer position in NLP for a period of two years.

    Project context
    ---------------
    PIITHIE is a collaborative project between the research teams of the
    Computer Sciences laboratories LINA (Nantes) and LIA (Avignon) and the
    Advestigo and Sinequa SAS companies.
    It primarily aims to detect text plagiarism. Natural language
    processing (NLP) techniques will improve the performances and the
    research potential of both Advestigo and Sinequa tools. The second
    objective is about impact monitoring: Information distributors are
    very interested by the possibility to evaluate the impact of their
    production.

    Job description
    ---------------
    The successful candidate will join the NLP Team of the LINA Laboratory
    at the University of Nantes. The candidate is espected to participate
    to all project phases : from study to development. The main functions
    of the post are to develop text analysis techniques for plagiarism
    problems with respect to LINA approach and tools.

    Job profil
    ----------
    Minimum requirements:
    Applicants must have a postgraduate degree (preferably a PhD) with
    experience in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
    or Document Engineering
    Experience in linguistic approaches in NLP
    Strong programming skills in Java, Perl
    Relevant knowledge of XML technologies
    Full spoken and written proficiency of French
    Ability to work as a team

    Preferred/recommended requirements:
    Experience in product development
    Experience in the following areas: Statistical and/or Machine Learning
    approaches in NLP

    Location, Contract period and Remuneration
    -------------------------------
    Location: Université de Nantes - LINA 2, rue de la Houssinière BP
    92208 44322 Nantes Cedex 03 France
    Duration of post: 2 years from 1st January 2007
    Salary : 2300 € (before taxes per month)

    Application and deadline
    -------------------------
    To apply, email a cover letter and a CV (including an outline of
    research experience and interests, as well as names and contact
    information for two
    references) to
    Nicolas.Hernandez@univ-nantes.fr and Annie.Tartier@univ-nantes.fr
    Closing date: 30th November

    More information about
    -----------------------
    The NLP team of the LINA - CNRS laboratory is interesting in grammatical
    inference, text mining and the acquisition of multilingual linguistic
    ressources.It explores textual data to extract linguistic information
    concerned with all the levels of language processing : morphological,
    lexical, syntactical, semantic and pragmatic, and analyses these
    levels it to give access to information conveyed.
    http://www.lina.atlanstic.net/

    Nantes ! The capital of the west of France
    One opening word. Leading Surrealist André Breton once wrote: "Nantes, perhaps
    with Paris the only town in France where I've felt that something
    worth while might happen..."
    http://www.nantes.fr/ville/nantes/presentation/



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