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POST-DOC OPENING
IN STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
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The "Spoken Language Processing" team at LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay (25 km south
of Paris) is seeking qualified postdoctoral researchers in the field of
Statistical Natural Language Processing (see
https://www.limsi.fr/en/research/tlp/).

* Description of the work

This position is related to a collaborative project aimed at developping
on an experimental platform for online monitoring of social media and
information streams, with self-adaptive properties, in order to detect,
collect, process, categorize, and analyze multilingual news streams. The
platform includes advanced linguistic analysis, discourse analysis,
extraction of entities and terminology, topic detection, translation and
the project includes studies on unsupervised and cross-lingual
adaptation.

In this context, the candidate is expected to develop innovative methods
for performing unsupervised cross-domain and/or cross-lingual adaptation
of statistical NLP tools.

* Requirements and objectives
 
Candidates are expected to hold an Engineering BSc/Msc degree and a PhD
in Computer Science. Knowledge of statistical or example-based
approaches for Speech or Natural Language Processing is required; the
candidate is also expected to have strong programmation skills, to be
familiar with statistical machine learning techniques and to have a good
publication record in the field.

Salary and other conditions of employments will follow CNRS standard
rules for non-permanent researchers, according to the experience of the
candidate.

* Contacts : Francois Yvon - francois.yvon at limsi.fr

Interested candidates should send a short cover letter stating
motivation and interests, along with their CV (in .pdf format, only) and
names and addresses of two references, to the email address given above
as soon as possible and by nov 1st, 2015 at the latest. The contract is
expected to start Jan 1st, 2016.

Informal questions regarding this position should be directed to the
same address.