The BFO team of ICube proposes a post-doctoral position in Strasbourg
(France) for 12 months starting in January 2015 within the NERD (Named
Entities in Relational Databases) research project.

The goal of the project is to derive knowledge from unstructured and,
more importantly, unlabelled data in relational databases. Databases
often contain fragmented information such as addresses, descriptions,
colours, labels, telephone numbers, etc. As such, they contain
information that is not accompanied by the additional context that
would be present within a natural language document and would be
exploited by current state-of-the-art algorithms (for example the
contextual information that would be derived from a sentence's
structure or surrounding words). Of course, databases may also contain
natural language documents, but this is the exception (in commercial
databases) rather than the norm. Nevertheless, the developed
algorithms should be applicable to the spectrum of documents that
range between sparse (traditional business) databases and dense
(natural language) databases. Experiments on real world databases is
expected and access to an extensive corpus of data will be provided.

The partners of the project are:

- The BFO group of ICube, specialized in data mining and knowledge engineering
- The FDT group of LiLPa, specialized in natural language processing
- The Quantup Laboratory, experienced in the application of machine
learning/pattern recognition methods to commercial database systems

Candidates applying for this position should have a PhD in Computer
Science with a good background in Natural Language Processing, Machine
Learning and formal Knowledge Representation. Experience in Java
programming and distributed systems (for example using the Map-Reduce
framework and/or Spark) is desired. A good knowledge of English is
required along with an intermediate level of French.

Candidates should send an academic curriculum vitae (including a list
of publications and the names and contact details of two referees),
along with a cover letter.

Deadline for application: 31st October 2014

Expected starting date: January 2015 (flexible)

Contact: Delphine Bernhard (dbernhard@unistra.fr) and Tom Lampert
(t.lampert@laboquantup.eu)

Salary: 2200 ¤ per month (net, not including income tax).

Call for applications:
http://icube-bfo.unistra.fr/en/index.php/Open_internship,_PhD_and_post-doc_positions