Open position at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France: Postdoc/Research engineer in Text and Web Content Analytics

Open position at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France: Postdoc/Research engineer in Text and Web Content Analytics

We are looking for a Research Engineer with a background in Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web to join the Inria WIMMICS team (https://wimmics.inria.fr/) and more precisely SMILK - Social Media Intelligence and Linked Knowledge (https://project.inria.fr/smilk/), a joint laboratory (Labcom) between the WIMMICS team and the Research and Innovation unit of VISEO (Grenoble, France) (http://www.viseo.net/).

Natural Language Processing, Linked Open Data and Social Networks as well as the links between them are at the core of this LabCom. The purpose of SMILK is both to develop research and technologies in order to retrieve, analyze, and reason on textual data coming from Web sources, and to make use of LOD, social networks structures and interactions to improve the analysis and understanding of textual resources.

The engineer will focus on the following topics, covered by SMILK: use of data and vocabularies published on the web in order to search, analyze, disambiguate and structure textual knowledge in a smart way, but also to feed internal information sources; information extraction from the web (entities and relation extraction); sentiment analysis (opinion mining) over web content (forum, blogs, short messages).

*Profile*

Holding a Master or a PhD in Computer Science, you have a deep knowledge of state-of-the-art methods in one or more areas of text analytics (in particular: information extraction and sentiment analysis (opinion mining)); experience in implementing information extraction systems. Your hands-on experience of at least one programming language (e.g. Java, C++) gives you autonomy in completing all your technical tasks. Self-motivated, goal-oriented and you like working in an international team. Pragmatic and customer oriented.

Any of the following would be a plus: background of the technology and techniques used in Semantic Web (RDF framework, SPARQL query language), good control of scripting tools (bash, Unix/Linux tools) and of web languages (HTML, XML), experience with automation of NLP processing chains, fluent in French.

Project duration: till January 2017
Deadline: Open until filled
Working environment: the postdoc/engineer will be employed at Inria Sophia Antipolis, in the Wimmics team
Salary: Gross Salary per month according to the level of diploma and the experience in the domain: 2500 – 2800€ / month (corresponding to 2100-2300€ net salary / month)
Contact email: smilk@inria.fr

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in either English or French with "SMILK Postdoc/Research engineer" in the subject line.

Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 13:45:42 UTC