Research Assistant in text-mining infrastructure development

*Reference **OMTD-CDD-0771*

The Bibliome team of the MaIAGE lab (Mathematics and Informatics Applied
to Genome and Environment) at INRA in Paris area invites applications
for a research assistant fellowship position in text-mining
infrastructure development.

The research associate will contribute to the H2020-EINFRA project, Open
Mining Infrastructure for Text and Data (OpenMinTeD) that aims to build
an open software infrastructure to foster and facilitate the use of Text
and Data Mining (TDM) technologies by the scientific community.

The successful candidate will collaborate with European leading teams in
text mining infrastructure development across several European centres.
They will contribute to extend theOpenMinTeD Galaxy framework to the
text-mining domain and to port the Alvis tools developed by Bibliome to
OpenMinTeD.

Bibliome is a leading team for text-mining with expertise in information
extraction, semantic text analysis, ontology building and text-mining
pipeline, in the interdisciplinary environment of MaIAGE bioinformatics
laboratory.

The candidates should have a master degree or PhD in computer science,
bioinformatics, or engineering degree in computer programming.

*Location*

Jouy-en-Josas, France (15km from Paris)

*Period*

12 months starting June or July 2017. The position is bound to work in 
OpenMinTeD project. Extension after this period may be possible.

*Salary*

Bibliome follows INRA's salary grid which takes into account diploma and
experience. The benefit package includes health care, unemployment and
retirement insurance.

*Skills*

- Programming skills in Java

- Strong experience with XML technologies

- Familiarity with the following technologies are a plus: docker, UIMA,
  Galaxy

- Good technical English communication skills

-  Interest in text-mining and natural language processing

- Strong teamwork ability

*Application*

Please send your resume and cover letter to both contacts:

- Claire.Nedellec@inra.fr

- Robert.Bossy@inra.fr

Please include the reference OMTD-CDD-0771 to your message subject.

*References*

Bibliome: http://maiage.jouy.inra.fr/?q=fr/bibliome/

OpenMinTeD: http://openminted.eu/

GitHub: https://github.com/Bibliome, https://github.com/openminted