INRIA Internship on Web Knowledge Bases

The INRIA GraphIK team (Graphs for Inferences on Knowledge), located at
LIRMM Montpellier (France), is looking for strong candidates for a master
internship on the modular reuse of Web knowledge bases, as part of the
INRIA Internship International program.

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Informations
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GraphIK (https://team.inria.fr/graphik/)

LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr)

INRIA Internship Program (
http://www.inria.fr/en/research/international-mobility/internships-programme/applications
)


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Subject : Modular Reuse of Web Knowledge Bases
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Ontology-based data access is a novel paradigm to access information whose
main application can be found in the implementation of the Semantic Web. A
legacy of well-established knowledge bases spanning from life sciences to
encyclopedical repositories is today available online as the result of a
number of decentralized and coordination-free projects. Reusing both
knowledge and data from consolidated knowledge bases is vital to ensure a
coherent development of the Semantic Web, thereby capitalizing on the
efforts made in the last years by many institutions and domain experts to
publish quality information. The goal of the internship is to study how to
reuse in a modular way knowledge and data extracted from Web knowledge
bases expressed as Deductive RDF Triplestores augmented with existential
rules, a la Datalog+.

The complete description of the internship can be found at

https://drisi.inria.fr/internshipPublic/showSujet/1934

Candidates are encouraged to contact the GraphIK team (mugnier@lirmm.fr,
ulliana@lirmm.fr) before submitting their application, as well as for any
query.


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Important dates
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Deadline for the application : February 9, 2015.

(Indicative) starting date : April 1, 2015.

Duration : 4 to 6 months.


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Required Skills
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We are looking for candidates with strong background in theoretical
Computer Science, especially in Logic and Graph Algorithms, and solid
programming skills in C or Java. Fluent speaking/writing either in English
or French is required.


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Application Details
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Financing and other administrative informations can be found at
http://www.inria.fr/en/research/international-mobility/internships-programme/applications

Notice that in order to be eligible for an application, the student’s
University or institution must already be an INRIA partner (
http://www.inria.fr/content/download/38718/754562/version/2/file/Institutions+partenaires.pdf
).

The internship offers attractive secondary labor conditions. Montpellier is
a dynamic and lively city closed to the mediterranean sea.