Post-doctoral position at INRIA Nancy-Grand Est

Bonjour,

The INRIA Nancy-Grand Est has  a Post-doctoral position  in the  CyWiki project.

INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/), the French national institute for

research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental

and applied research in information and communication science and

technology. Throughout its eight research centers, the Institute also

plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training

through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information,

development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in

international programs.

Starting date of the job: 1st January, 2010

Employment period: 1 years

Gross salary: around 2400 euros per month

Location loria: http://www.loria.fr/

Subject description

The CyWiki project has to be considered in the general framework of

transforming multi-modal content units into formal knowledge units.

The aim of the project is to design a system supporting and managing

the collaboration between humans and machines for guiding the

transformation of textual document contents into formal knowledge.

The application domain is the Education domain. The inputs of the

system  ressources are pedagogical textual

resources: lectures (slides, manual, reports), exercises, projects,

corrections, etc. The resulting knowledge units have to be accessible

and manageable both by software and human agents.  These knowledge

units make explicit the relations existing between pedagogical

resources, favor the access and the reuse of contents, improve search

and navigation through contents, and support and help the design of

the design of new documents.

The candidate for this post-doc position  has to

participate and to coordinate the design of the infrastructure of the

project.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas:

    * knowledge representation,reasoning

    * knowledge extraction (text mining)

    * Social Semantic Web

    * Semantic Wikis

Documents

- CV of the candidate (the thesis has to be defended within

 the 12 months before the present date)

- Recommendation letters.

Contacts:  Pascal.Molli@loria.fr and Amedeo.Napoli@loria.fr

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Hala Skaf-Molli

Maître de Conférences

Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1

LORIA

INRIA Nancy-Grand Est

www.loria.fr/~skaf