Contact Benoît Sagot (head of the team): benoit.sagot[at]inria.fr
Interested in carrying out top quality NLP research in a stimulating and friendly environment in the centre of Paris?
The ALMAnaCH project-team at Inria, Paris (France) is looking for candidates for full-time permanent researchers in natural language processing (NLP), digital humanities and/or machine learning with application to NLP. We welcome profiles for both junior and senior positions.
Inria is the French national research institute for digital science and technology. World-class research, and, where relevant, transfer to industry and start-up creation are its main missions. Research is structured into “project-teams”, spread across nine research centres across France, including the Paris research centre, which the ALMAnaCH team is part of.
The ALMAnaCH team (Automatic Language Modelling and Analysis & Computational Humanities) focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), a key area within Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Digital Humanities (DH), at the crossroads between theoretical computer science, machine learning, and linguistics. The team's work covers a wide variety of topics related to language variation, both in a historical sense and within contemporary language states (developing robust NLP systems for noisy web content and dialectal varieties of language). Our interests also span to the training of neural networks (e.g. CamemBERT model), interpretability of neural approaches, language resource development (e.g. OSCAR corpus, treebanks, parallel datasets, lexicons, extension to multimodality (vision, speech), but also historical corpora built using OCR (optical character recognition) and HTR (handwritten text recognition) applied to archives and other historical documents), evaluation and information extraction and retrieval (especially from specialised corpora and historical documents).
You can meet the team and discover our current projects here: http://almanach.inria.fr
Although research will be your principal activity, if you wish to also create your own startup, you will be readily supported by Inria. Notably, Inria has its own startup studio dedicated to accompanying Inria researchers in the creation of their startups. Also, you will be able to carry out consulting and/or teaching activities.
Upon arrival, junior permanent researchers will receive a welcome package including a full PhD grant and 15000€ for expenses.
We are especially (although not exclusively) interested in candidates specialised in:
Your application will be examined as part of an Inria-wide yearly recruiting process (competitive selection campaign). The application deadline for 2023 recruitments is the 5th March for all positions.
If you are interested in joining the team, you should contact Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot[at]inria.fr) by the end of 2022, i.e. early enough for the team to decide whether or not they would support your application and, if so, to discuss research interests and to prepare your application. More information can be found on the Inria recruitment page.
The exact salary is determined by your classification within a certain grade level, which is determined by qualifications and previous experience. There are also additional bonuses and allowances. There are three types of possible positions you can apply for, which are all permanent positions:
N.B. As stated above, you can also do consulting to complement your salary.
All positions also come with additional benefits including:
You can find more detailed information on the Inria website. If you are interested, you are highly encouraged to contact us to have an informal discussion.