[Infovis] Post-doc position INRIA / France - Interactive Exploration of Semantic Networks

[Guy Melançon]

The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering 
a one-year post-doc position. The successful candidate will be involved 
in an advanced research project dedicated to the visual and interactive 
exploration of semantic networks.

The project takes place within the ANR TANGUY project headed by Thalès 
Communications and in collaboration with Xerox (XRCE Grenoble) and the 
law firm FIDAL. The project aims at designing a methodology to support 
the incremental construction and easy use of semantic networks. The 
development of a (prototype) system should help law experts to deal with 
large document collections from which potential facts have to be 
identified, extracted, organized and ultimately validated or annotated. 
Starting from valid pieces of information extracted from text document 
(Xerox expertise), our goal is to offer adapted mechanisms to visualize, 
navigate and annotate all this information. The construction of a 
network of facts should follow from semantic proximity between pieces of 
information or from users’ knowledge.

The awarded candidate will be involved in multi-disciplinary and 
fundamental research residing mainly at the crossings of computational 
linguistic, artificial intelligence and information visualization. 
Several directions of research may be followed depending on the goals 
and competences of the selected candidate. Prior knowledge in (some) of 
the following areas shall be positively considered: network science, 
graph theory, graph drawing, graph visualization. We seek for candidates
with a (strong) programming experience in C++. Past experience using the 
Tulip (graph visualization) platform is a plus. Preference will also be 
given to candidates that have demonstrated their abilities to carry out 
research at top international standards and to publish their results in 
international journals. The starting date of the position is opened.

To apply, please send your resume and research statement by email to 
Guy.Melancon at inria.fr


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Guy Melançon
INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest
CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI
Campus Université Bordeaux I
351 Cours de la libération
33405 Talence Cedex
France

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