=== 2 Research engineer positions available at INRIA Sophia Antipolis,
France (Wimmics team) ===

--- Background and objectives ---

The purpose of the project is to provide a set of tools to support the
detection and prevention of psychological/behavioral problems of
cyberbullying teenage victims. The objective will be achieved combining
social media monitoring and motivational technologies (virtual coaches
integrating chatbots).

In this context, the 2 reseach engineers will work at the development of
argument mining and sentiment analysis solutions, tailorable to specific
needs, to detect cyberbullying activities.

  In particular, they will focus on:
- the refinement and integration of existing technologies for social
  media monitoring and semantic analysis, partly developed by the
  project partners
- the improvement of the robustness and flexibility of the final
  technology, in order to allow users to define domains of interest on
  the fly (e.g. cyberbullying) and perform a customizable monitoring and
  analysis.

--- Candidate profile ---
Mandatory requirements for applicants:

- a Master degree (or Ph.D.) in Computer Science;

- Experience in Natural Langage Processing, Artificial Intelligence
  and/or Machine Learning;

- Excellent programming skills;

- Good English skills in writing and communication.


--- Terms of the research engineer position ---
Duration: 12 months
Starting date: January/February 2018


Hosting team: WIMMICS (http://wimmics.inria.fr/) is a research team of
Université Côte d'Azur - INRIA. The research fields of this team are
graph-oriented knowledge representation, reasoning and
operationalization to model and support actors, actions and interactions
in web-based epistemic communities.

Location: I3S laboratory, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Salary (according to the level of diploma and the experience in the
domain): ~2500¤ / month (gross salary).

Applications : a curriculum vitae together with a motivation letter
should be sent to Elena Cabrio (elena.cabrio@unice.fr)

Deadline for applications: October 30th, 2017.