ALPAGE - Engineer Linguists
Position type: Engineers
Functional area: Paris
Research theme: Perception, cognition, interaction
Project: ALPAGE
 
 
About Inria and the job

Three Engineer Linguists positions are available at the INRIA Paris
(Alpage project), funded by two projects, the ANR ParSiTi and the
H2020 PARTHENOS projects.
The ANR ParSiTi project aims at taking advantage of recent advances in
Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning to address challenges
posed by the steady rise of user-generated content, such as the need
to make these often non-canonical text content available to a
monolingual audience.
PARTHENOS aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the broad
sector of Linguistic Studies, Humanities, Cultural Heritage, History,
Archaeology and related fields integrating initiatives,
infrastructures and building bridges between different, although
tightly, interrelated fields.
In these projects INRIA has a central role in developing a coherent
vision for data models and standards, together with data mining tools
from unstructured data.
The approach is, as far as possible, independent from a specific
domain and rely on machine learning to avoid costly manual effort. The
creation of gold standard of annotated data is a crucial milestone for
any NLP, NER or data mining tasks.
 
Mission

In order to build a sound evaluation framework for our projects, Inria
is in charge of designing a multi-lingual gold standard data set in
French, Arabic and English. The successful candidates will have to
take care of the translation and correction of automatically annotated
data using our in-house tools. The candidates will also be involved in
the design extension and "reality"-check of our current annotation
schemes.
 
Skills and profile

All applicants must hold a linguistic/NLP degree with a strong
emphasis on formal syntax and morphology. They should also demonstrate
a working knowledge of any Linux/Unix environment, be able to
proficiently use versioning systems (svn, github) and familiar with
the XML format.

They must be truly autonomous and be able to present clearly key
points of their work and capable of identifying linguistics
bottleneck. Prior experience in annotation would be a plus, as well as
experience in interacting with user-generated content (social media
interactions, video-games live chat sessions and so on).  Candidates
with a multilingual background (French/Arabic*, Arabic*/English or
English/French -* preferably with a working knowledge of North-African
Arabic dialects) are strongly encouraged to apply.
 
Benefits

Starting date: early January

Duration: 12 months, full time

Location: Inria Paris, 2 rue Simone Iff, Paris 12e, France

Salary: between 2000 and 2300 euros net according to professional
experience, includes social security, retirement scheme, unemployment
benefits and 6 weeks of paid holidays.

Contact: djame.seddah@paris-sorbonne.fr, Laurent.romary@inria.fr,
luca.foppiano@inria.fr

Deadline for application: open until filled.
 
Apply online: 
https://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/offers/experienced-and-specialist-engineers-research-and-development/(view)/details.html