Internship on "CV Mining for Selection in Hiring Processes" at XRCE
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UNIT: XRCE/ADL/TPI

PROPOSERS: Caroline Privault, Fabien Guillot

DURATION: 6 months - Dates confirmed after interview based on 
availability of the candidate

START DATE: April 2016- Date confirmed after interview based on 
availability of the candidate

REFERENCE : 
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/CV-Mining-for-Selection-in-Hiring-Processes

The Text processing & Interaction group in ADL brings together
competencies in text mining, user interaction & design, and advanced
engineering, in order to prototype and transfer technologies to Xerox
business groups and customers. The main focus for this internship is on
the development of specific language resources and tools for application
to CV mining in the Human Resources domain: the goal is to contribute to
the development of a system for supporting recruiters in the review of
applicants' CVs received for a published job vacancy. The candidate will
have the possibility to work on some of the following tasks in
collaboration with other team members:

** Generating Linguistic Resources

- generate linguistic resources for semantic relatedness such as
  semantic taxonomy
- exploit public corpora and free databases, to build linguistic
  resources

*** Mining Candidate Personality Traits
- investigate the state of the art in related fields such as
  psycho-linguistics or social linguistics to understand possible
  relationships between specific personal expressions (syntax, word
  usage, etc) and personality traits of the candidates
- develop tools for parsing resume text contents to detect specific
  personal expressions such as usage of pronouns, passive/active form,
  etc

The candidate will contribute to the design of annotation schemes and
corpora annotation as part of the above tasks. You will be part of a
team of developers and researchers, on a project managed with an agile
methodology.

REQUIREMENTS:
- Master Student or PhD
- Knowledge/practice of an Annotation Tool e.g. Brat or other
- Experience in developing linguistic resources
- Experience in using scripting languages (e.g. Python, Perl). Practice
  of JAVA is a plus
- Knowledge of some Natural Language Processing tools, (e.g. Named
  Entity Recognizers, Syntactic Parsers, POS Taggers, CRF, etc.)
- Verbal and written communication skills in English
- Knowledge of XML, or other structured format is a plus
- Knowledge in Machine Learning (e.g. Deep learning), Ontology/Semantic
  web are a plus

To submit an application:
Please send your CV and cover letter to xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com. 
Please specify "CV Mining for Selection in Hiring Processes" in your 
subject line.

Full proposal at:
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/CV-Mining-for-Selection-in-Hiring-Processes

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About XRCE:

Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) is a young, dynamic research
organization, which creates innovative technologies to support growth in
Xerox business process outsourcing and document management services
businesses.

Our domains of research stretch from the social sciences to computer
science. We have renowned expertise in machine learning, natural
language processing, computer vision, ethnography and services
computing.

XRCE is part of the Xerox Innovation group made up of 650 researchers
and engineers in four world-renowned research and technology centres.
Our goal is to make Xerox a great place to work. Through a comprehensive
set of employee-focused initiatives, we promote diversity by nurturing a
culture of inclusion and opportunity, and through measurable actions.