*Post-doctoral position in NLP*

Loria a computer science lab in Nancy - France, has 12 months funded
full-time post-Doctoral researcher position starting on October 2017.
The post-doctoral position is funded by AMIS (Access Multilingual
Information OpinionS), a Chist-Era project
(http://deustotechlife.deusto.es/amis/).

The topic of the post-doc is the automatic comparison of multilingual
opinions in videos. Two videos in two different languages concerning the
same topic have to be compared. One of the video is summarized and
translated to the language of the second one. This last one is
summarized and then the opinions of the two original videos are compared
in terms of emotional labels such as: anger, disgust, fear, joy,
sadness, surprise... They should be compared also in terms of basic
sentiments.

Social network will be used in order to reinforce the analysis of the
contents in terms of opinions and sentiments.

AMIS group will make available the summary of videos in terms of text.
The candidate will work on NLP, but skills in video analysis will be
appreciated.

The applicant will contribute also to other tasks in collaboration with
other partners of AMIS project.
The successful candidate will join the SMarT research team, he will be 
supervised by Prof. Kamel Smaïli, Dr D. Langlois and Dr D. Jouvet. The 
applicant will work also with Dr O. Mella and Dr D. Fohr.

*Location*: Loria - Nancy (France)
*Duration*: October 2017 - September 2018
*Net salary*: from 1800 Euros to 2400 Euros per month.

The ideal applicant should have:

- A PhD in NLP, opinion and sentiment mining or other strongly related
  discipline.
- A very solid background in statistical machine learning.
- Strong publications.
- Solid programming skills to conduct experiments.
- Excellent level in English.

Applicants should send to smaili@loria.fr:

- A CV
- A cover letter outlining the motivation
- Three most representative papers