Titre : Automatic moderation of cultural events


Description :

a. ideactiv is a young start-up heavily relying on NLP in order to read
that data of cultural events on the website of cultural organisations
(theatres, show venues, etc.). This allows these organisations to share
their events with cultural media and promote them without any manual
operation.

ideactiv reads ~15 000 events per 24 hours, on the website of ~10 000
organisations. Data can be seen on www.ideactiv.com

ideactiv has beencreated by Thomas Chenevier, an alumnus of Ecole
Polytechnique. It is used daily by hundreds of cultural organisations,
and by national cultural media.

Working for ideactiv is a great opportunity to get experience on
"deep search engines", ie search engines that index objects according
to their meaning and not just web pages according to their content.



b. Topics. For the data to be actually useful:

1.  the description of events needs to be clean.

2.  the system must categorize an event based on
    its title and description and venue.

3.  the system must generate a short description
    of the events.

4.  the system should detect multiple identical
    pictures of an event.

These 4 topics aredescribed in more details at
www.ideactiv.com/doc/2025-NLP-ideactiv-moderation.pdf


c. The internship should address at least topic 1 and/or topic2, and if
possible topic 3 and/or topic 4.

The goal of the internship is to produce a system able to work in
production, working autonomously behind an API, with a code that is
clean and commented so that it can be maintained and improved over time
after the internship.

The system developed must be as frugal as possible, and must therefore
not rely on third party services, except probably for topic 3.

ideactiv will provide lots of data to train and test the system, a
great knowledge of these issues, and real-time feedback on the outcome
of the system to be developed.

The internship will be mostly remote, with regular online sessions and
some in person sessions with ideactiv developer (who based in Brussels
and can come to Paris).

If the internship proves successful, ideactiv might provide hiring
opportunities as of summer 2025, in order to deepen the research and
development on these topics (and more generally on the automatic
extraction and structuration of data from websites).


d. Please send your questions, motivation for these topics
and applications to thomas@ideactiv.com Applications are expected end of
January / early February 2025, for an internship that should start btw
February and April, and last for at least 4 months.