Post-doctoral positions at LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Saclay (Paris Sud) University. LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic processing of human language for a range of tasks. LIMSI invites applications for 1 one-year Postdoctoral position in Natural Language Processing. The topic is as follows: Dialogue management in a human-machine dialogue system where the system plays the role of a patient during a medical consultation with a doctor. CONTEXT The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to the following project: Patient Genesys (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. 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: Sophie Rosset (rosset@limsi.fr) Anne-Laure (annlor@limsi.fr) Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz@limsi.fr) Application deadline: October 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.