The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a PhD position focusing on the visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks.

The PhD project takes place within the 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. As a consequence, the interactive navigation of the network can exploit available results in graph visualization which is at the heart of our INRIA team.

To apply: For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon@inria.fr or go to INRIA's website. Go to the URL http://www.inria.fr/travailler/mrted/en/doc/index.html and then search for jobs in Bordeaux.

The French national institute for research in computer science and control (INRIA) is the only public institute entirely dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). It brings together 3,600 persons - 2,800 of which are scientists - distributed in six research units across France. INRIA has an annual budget of 160 million euros, 20% of which comes from its own research contracts and licences. INRIA has massive influence in the area of "networks, telecoms and multimedia", "complex systems and software" and "modelling, simulation and visualisation". It develops collaborations with the economic world through strategic industrial partners and by setting up open forums and creating companies (80 start-ups in 20 years).