Postdoctoral position at France Telecom Orange Labs in the field of CLIR (Cross-Language Information Retrieval).
Location: Orange Labs in Lannion (Bretagne, France). Starting date : as soon as possible in 2008. Duration: 12 months (extensible to 18 months). Activities: The successful candidate will be involved in an R&D project dealing with multimedia and multilingual information retrieval. One of the main goals of the postdoctoral activities is to contribute to the design and development of a method for fully automated cross-language information retrieval, in the sense of reducing or eliminating the interaction of the system with the user when disambiguating and translating queries. Rule-based and statistical approaches will be investigated and combined. The targeted activities of the postdoctoral position will involve: - Update the state of the art (methods, existing solutions, use of CLIR). - Evaluation of some searching tools including CLIR functions. - Conception of a hybrid method for fully automated cross-language information retrieval. - Development of a prototype, its evaluation and integration within an existing multimedia and multilingual search engine. We are looking for candidates with the following skills: - PhD in computer science or computational linguistics. - Good knowledge of NLP, MT methods, IR and CLIR. - Good programming skills: Linux, Python/Java, script languages (bash), C++ optional. - Languages: French and English (more will be appreciated). - Interest and motivation for R&D activities in an industrial context. Interested candidates should submit a CV with a description of their research experience and interest, and names of 1 or 2 referees to: Malek Boualem France Telecom Orange Labs Email: malek.boualem(at)orange-ftgroup.com Phone: +33(0)2 96 05 29 83 _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
