Postdoctoral position in Nantes, France
Discovery of frequent patterns in complex data (Text, ontology) augmented by semantic models.

Context: Antimoine project ( ANR CONTINT )
ANTIMOINE (ANthropologie des TerrItoires – lecture du patriMOINE) is a projet in digital humanities concerned with designing a smart environment to improve access and consultation of an information system about heritage objects.
ANTIMOINE project tackles with the cooperation of three different semantic models associated to scientific challenges:

Postdoctoral position in Nantes, France
Discovery of frequent patterns in complex data (Text, ontology) augmented by semantic models.

Context: Antimoine project ( ANR CONTINT )
ANTIMOINE (ANthropologie des TerrItoires – lecture du patriMOINE) is a projet in digital humanities concerned with designing a smart environment to improve access and consultation of an information system about heritage objects.
ANTIMOINE project tackles with the cooperation of three different semantic models associated to scientific challenges:

  • meaning through linguistic analysis,
  • meaning through data analysis,
  • meaning through action analysis.

Job specification:
The candidate will address the 2nd challenge “meaning through data analysis”, by studying the available data to extract frequent patterns in relation with the 2 additional models (linguistic, action).
More specifically her/his task will consist in :

  • making a survey of the literature,
  • preprocessing the textual data (POS-tagging)
  • discovering (generalized) frequent patterns and (generalized) association rules
  • improving the discovery by coupling information from the 2 additional models: semantic from linguistic model, and usage from action model.
  • participating to project management : task, deliveries, etc.

Your Profile
You hold (or very soon receive) a PhD degree in Computer Science.

You have strong scientific skills in :

  • frequent pattern analysis and clustering (models and tools),
  • programming (java, C, Python…), and good knowledge in one or several of the following topics:
  • text-mining (POS-tagging),
  • ontology engineering (OWL, SPARQL), databases (sql), sequence mining.

In complement, the candidate should :

  • demonstrate fluent written English skills;
  • have research and publication skills (paper writting);
  • understand french (speaking)

Our offer
This is a full-time position of a PostDoctoral researcher.
Starting date: February 2014.
Duration: 2 years (24 months).
The position will be held in the DUKe team of the LINA lab, located in Polytech Nantes graduate school of engineers (France), which is specialized in data science, in a context of multidisciplinary collaboration with 2 partners and a
company.

http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/?-DUKe-.html
(formely KOD: https://sites.google.com/site/sitelinacod/)

Information and application
For more information on this position please contact Dr. F. Guillet
(Fabrice.Guillet@univ-nantes.fr).
To apply for this position, applicants should send (preferably as a
single PDF file):

  • a brief CV
  • a brief statement of research interests and motivations
  • references (with email and phone number)
  • The list of publication references
  • a sample of the 2 best publications