In the context of a collaboration with the company Bluenove,  Almanach offers 2 positions:

    a post-doctoral research position, 12 months
    an engineer position , 12 months

For both positions, the candidates are invited to contact
Éric de la Clergerie  <Eric.de_la_clergerie at inria.fr>
and to join

    a detailed curriculum vitae
    a motivation letter

before *** February 20th 2018 ***

Context

Bluenove develops the collaborative plateform Assembl to manage
citizen debates about societal issues. The collaboration with the
Almanach team aims to extend Assembl with intelligent modules for a
better management and exploitation of the discussions. These modules
will in particular rely on fine-grained linguistic analysis of the
discussions.

Post-doctoral research position

The work will explore the design of modules first to analyze the
content of the discussions taking place during a debate, and then
progressively to interact as agents within the on-going discussions.

The analysis part will adress issues such as the construction of
semantic maps, accurate visualizations of the ongoing exchanges, and
help for orienting new participants in a debate (rooting). The
analysis will also consider the interactions between the participants
and all kinds of stylistic, semantic, and discursive elements to
identify the key elements of a thread of discussion (to propose
automatic summaries) and to identify the main actors (in terms of
ideas, synthesis, coordination, ...)

The interaction part with the participants should progressively
propose richer conversational forms (chatbot), by exploiting the
analysis of the discussion and a good knowledge of the actors
(history, profiles) to get over rigid scripted scenari.

The post-doctoral researcher will have to identify the main issues, to
explore and select the best practical solutions, to complete them with
his/her own developments, and to run some experimentations and
evaluations. Whenever possible and modulo confidentiality issues,
he/she will be encouraged to publish.

Profile:
    PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics
    strong competences in Natural Language Processing
    competences in Machine Learning (and even better in Deep Learning)
    excellent research track records
    good programming skills
    good language level inFrench and English

Duration: 12 months

Salary: ~ 2600 Euros/month (gross salary), depending on experience

Location: mostly at INRIA Paris (12th arrondissement) but also at
Bluenove (Paris)

Applications: a detailed curriculum vitae (list of publications, a
summary of the PhD) together with a motivation letter should be sent
to Éric de la Clergerie (eric.de_la_clergerie at inria.fr) before ***
February 20th 2018 ***