Post-doctoral position at INRIA Nancy-Grand Est

Bonjour,

The INRIA Nancy-Grand Est has  a Post-doctoral position  in the  CyWiki project.


INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/), the French national institute for
research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental
and applied research in information and communication science and
technology. Throughout its eight research centers, the Institute also
plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training
through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information,
development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in
international programs.


Starting date of the job: 1st January, 2010
Employment period: 1 years
Gross salary: around 2400 euros per month
Location loria: http://www.loria.fr/

Subject description.

The CyWiki project has to be considered in the general framework of
transforming multi-modal content units into formal knowledge units.

The aim of the project is to design a system supporting and managing
the collaboration between humans and machines for guiding the
transformation of textual document contents into formal knowledge.

The application domain is the Education domain. The inputs of the
system  ressources are pedagogical textual
resources: lectures (slides, manual, reports), exercises, projects,
corrections, etc. The resulting knowledge units have to be accessible
and manageable both by software and human agents.  These knowledge
units make explicit the relations existing between pedagogical
resources, favor the access and the reuse of contents, improve search
and navigation through contents, and support and help the design of
the design of new documents.

The candidate for this post-doc position  has to
participate and to coordinate the design of the infrastructure of the
project.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas:

     * knowledge representation,reasoning
     * knowledge extraction (text mining)
     * Social Semantic Web
     * Semantic Wikis


Documents.

- CV of the candidate (the thesis has to be defended within
 the 12 months before the present date)
- Recommendation letters.

Contacts:  Pascal.Molli@loria.fr and Amedeo.Napoli@loria.fr

-- 
Hala Skaf-Molli
Maître de Conférences
Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1
LORIA
INRIA Nancy-Grand Est
www.loria.fr/~skaf

Received on Thursday, 12 November 2009 17:24:59 UTC