Internship position available at Technicolor R&D in Rennes. Title ------ "Which scene are you talking about?" Recognizing scenes discussed on cinema or TV forums. Context ------- For more info on Technicolor Research & Innovation, Rennes : https://research.technicolor.com/rennes/ The internship will be hosted at Technicolor R&I in Rennes, France (500 employees, of which 130 researchers), within the Media Computing Lab. Our lab aims at bringing modern trends in computing to the service of novel media engines in content creation (visual effects, animation) as well as content discovery and retrieval. More specifically, our team focuses on Web user comments posted on forums and social networks. We use various approaches such as data mining, social network analysis and natural language processing. Objective --------- This internship aims at designing, developing and evaluating an information extraction system for user comments. The domain is dedicated to cinema and television. Each comment is already attached to a particular audiovisual content (movie, TV series, TV program). One of our goals is to detect within the comments the text segments which refer to a particular moment in the video. For instance, users may talk about their favorite scene or quote a famous dialogue. Task description ----------------- We will not analyze the audiovisual signal (image or audio), but solely the text of comments. Comments have already been collected and saved into a database. Hence the internship will focus on the analysis of the dataset rather than its collection. The intern will be responsible for choosing best techniques, based on a survey he or she will conduct on state-of-the-art approaches. The developed system will be evaluated by the intern, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Depending on obtained results and innovative ideas, this work may lead to a research publication in a conference. Keywords --------- Natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, data mining, text mining Profile of the candidate ------------------------- * Student in final year of master or science engineering school * Computer science (Python, Java) * Skills in machine learning, data mining and natural language processing * Strong interest in research (will constitute a survey) * Interest in social networks * English mandatory * Appreciates working with a team spirit Internship period & duration ----------------------------------- 6 months, starting preferably around February or March 2013, depending on the candidate's constraints. Please email your CV and cover letter to stage.rennes@technicolor.com with reference [TRDF-DM-029] in the subject.