LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic
processing of human language for a range of tasks.

LIMSI invites applications for three one-year Postdoctoral positions in
Natural Language Processing.  The topics involve:

1. Dialogue management in a human-machine dialogue system where the
   system plays the role of a patient during a medical consultation with
   a doctor.

2. Acquisition of knowledge about the mappings between professional
   ontology / terminology and lay people terminology.

3. Information extraction from social media for improve
   pharmacovigilance.

CONTEXT

The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to one of the two following
projects:

Patient Genesys (1, 2: http://www.patient-genesys.com/): in the
framework of continuous medical education, the goal of the project is to
design and develop a framework for virtual patient-doctor consultation.
This is a collaborative project including a hospital and small and
medium enterprises.

Vigi4MED (3): the aim of the project is to discover unknown effects of
drugs by exploring the contents of posts in patient forums.  This is a
collaborative project with academic partners among which two
pharmacovigilance centers.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational
  Linguistics
- Solid programming skills
- Strong publication record
- A good command of French is a plus
- Knowledge of medical terminologies and ontologies is a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Net salary: between 2000 and 2400 ¤ per month according to experience

Benefits: LIMSI offers a generous benefit package including health
insurance and 44 days vacation pa.

Duration: 12 months, renewable depending on performance and funding
availability

Start date: 1st October 2014

Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France

TO APPLY

Please send:
* a cover letter
* a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications
* the names and contact information of at least two referees
to both:
     Cyril Grouin (grouin@limsi.fr)
     Sophie Rosset (rosset@limsi.fr)
     Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz@limsi.fr)

Application deadline:  July 15th, 2014
Applications will be examined in the following week.

ABOUT LIMSI-CNRS

LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research (CNRS),
a leading research institution in Europe.

LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number of
fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid mechanics,
energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and text
processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and augmented
reality.

LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support staff
and graduate students. It is located in a green area about 30 minutes
south of Paris.