Open Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Emotion Analysis

Open Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Emotion Analysis

The Unit for Natural Language Processing [1] of the Insight Centre for 
Data Analytics [2] at the National University of Ireland, Galway [3], 
invites applications for a postdoctoral position in emotion analysis.

The position is mainly associated with the EU funded project 
MixedEmotions, which will implement an integrated Big Linked Data 
platform for emotion analysis across heterogeneous data sources, 
languages and modalities. The MixedEmotions platform will provide an 
integrated solution for: i) large-scale emotion analysis and fusion on 
heterogeneous, multilingual, text, speech, video and social media data 
streams, leveraging open access and proprietary data sources, exploiting 
also social context by leveraging social network graphs; ii) 
semantic-level emotion information aggregation and integration through 
robust extraction of social semantic knowledge graphs for emotion 
analysis along multidimensional clusters. The platform will be developed 
and evaluated in the context of three cross-domain Pilot Projects that 
are representative of a variety of data analytics markets: Social TV, 
Brand Reputation Management, and Call Centre Operations.

The open position will be concerned primarily with the text mining 
aspects of the project, in particular emotion analysis from and across 
text in multiple languages. Candidates should have a PhD degree in a 
relevant field of study with an emphasis on areas such as text mining, 
natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine learning 
etc. The position is for a fixed period of up to 24 months with the 
possibility of extension, depending on successful acquisition of project 
funding in which the selected candidate will be expected to actively 
participate.

The successful applicant will be required to travel to project meetings 
at various locations in Europe, and will need to collaborate and 
cooperate with other project partners, from various disciplines.

Salary range: €37k – €42k per annum, (commensurate with qualifications 
and experience)

Please send your application (CV, cover letter, both in PDF only) before 
the closing date of March 22nd, 2015 to Dr. Paul Buitelaar: 
paul.buitelaar@insight-centre.org <mailto:paul.buitelaar@insight-centre.org>

[1] http://nlp.insight-centre.org
[2] https://www.insight-centre.org
[3] http://www.nuigalway.ie