交换机 | 自然语言处理ERC项目ENP-MUC博士后招聘

艾克斯-马赛大学亚洲研究所（Irasia）诚聘一名ERC项目ENP-MUC博士后。

该项目是欧洲研究委员会（ERC）的“高级资助”项目，题为“中国现代城市中的精英、网络和权力”（1830-1949）。由Christian Henriot教授领衔的研究项目：中国现代史中的历史性“大数据”。该项目的资助期为2018年9月1日至2023年8月31日（共5年）。

The Institute of Asian Studies (Irasia) at Aix-Marseille University invites applications for the following position: 1 Postdoctoral fellow in the ERC project ENP-MUC.

This is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project titled “Elites, networks, and power in modern urban China (1830-1949). Historical “big data” in modern Chinese history" headed by Prof.  Christian Henriot. The funding period of the project is 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2023 (5 years). 

The project ENP-MUC proposes a step-change in the study of modern China reliant upon scalable data-rich history. It will deliver precise historical information at an unprecedented scale from heretofore untapped sources - as well as reshaping the analysis of existing sources - to create a new dimension in the study of the transformation of elites in modern China. It will deploy an array of cutting-edge digital methods — including data mining, sampling, and analysis within an integrated virtual research environment. The key issue that the project will address is breaking through existing limits of access to historical information that is embedded in complex sources and its transformation into refined, re-usable and sustainable data for contemporary and future study of modern China. This project borrows substantially from the concepts and methods, especially quantitative methods and network analysis from sociology and political science. For the analysis of textual corpora, it draws on the procedures and applications developed in linguistics and literary studies to explore large corpora of unstructured texts. Finally, it implements the most advanced tools and methods designed in computing, especially data mining and machine learning. 

The ENP-MUC project will be based at Aix-Marseille University on its Schuman campus (Aix-enProvence) and will be implemented by an international interdisciplinary team. The project is also part of a large international network of researchers in Europe (Bristol, Lancaster, Leiden, Basel, Göttingen), China (Shanghai) and Taiwan (Academia Sinica).

Three research centers of Aix-Marseille University are involved in the ENP-MUC project:

Institute of Asian Studies (IrAsia) Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) Laboratoire   d'  Informatique   et Systèmes   (LIS)

For further information about the principal investigator, visit ankeqiang.org.

• The Postdoc research position is initially for 12 months (renewable once)

• Starting date: preferably 1 October 2020

• Salary scale : approximately 35,000 Euro per year before taxes and social security (Net salary around 2,500 euros). The package includes including full social benefits, complementary insurance (mutuelle), and extra pre-paid meal tickets ((ticket restaurant).

• Joining an innovative research project funded by the prestigious ERC grant scheme

• Becoming a member of a large and fully interdisciplinary research team, including historians, linguists, computer and data scientists.

• Profiting from a vibrant internationally oriented research environment at Aix-Marseille University is available to attend international conferences, workshops, summer schools, and for research visits at institutions in the project countries

• No teaching obligations (but if desired, teaching opportunities may be offered in addition)

• Set-up a Natural Language Processing pipeline for Chinese and English historical texts (word segmentation, tagging, named-entities recognition, shallow semantic parsing)

• Apply Information Retrieval techniques on Chinese and English historical text to extract semantic relations

• Work in collaboration with engineers and data scientists of the team to a enrich the database from the “big data” unstructured textual data set

• Ensure text corpora and result from NLP analysis are available to the other members of the team (currently indexed with SolR)

• Exploit reinforcement learning methods to take advantage of intermediate evaluation from data scientists, historians and linguists

• Publishing in peer-reviewed journals and conferences like ACL, COLING, EMNLP,…

• Supporting the ERC grant holder in managing tasks, coordinating the project work and supervising PhD students and student assistants

• Doctoral degree in Computer Science / Natural Language Processing (should be obtained before the start of the project)

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to the field

• Experiences in one or more of the following fields: Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval

• Strong skills in Programming, Scientific Computing; good command of Linux is required and skills in R is a plus.

• Very good command of spoken and written English; a good command of Chines is required; French language skills are not required.

• Ability to organize yourself efficiently and work collegially in an internationally oriented team

Aix-Marseille University(AMU) Aix-Marseille University offers training in all disciplines: Arts, Literature, Languages and Humanities; Law and Political Science; Economics and Management ; Health; Science and Technology. An intensive research site in collaboration with leading organizations, AMU is one of the French sites of excellence recognized by an international jury as part of Future Investments. The AMU Foundation helps develop research, training and employability of students, while creating a privileged link with the socio-economic world. Training, research, guidance, employability, interdisciplinarity and exploitation of knowledge are the pillars of this establishment,largest university in France and the Francophone world. For more information:https://www.univamu.fr/en/university

Aix-Marseille University aims to increase the share of women in research and teaching and, therefore, explicitly encourages applications from women. As an international research institution, Aix-Marseille University particularly welcomes applications from abroad. 

Aix-Marseille University(AMU) Aix-Marseille University offers training in all disciplines: Arts, Literature, Languages and Humanities; Law and Political Science; Economics and Management ; Health; Science and Technology. An intensive research site in collaboration with leading organizations, AMU is one of the French sites of excellence recognized by an international jury as part of Future Investments. The AMU Foundation helps develop research, training and employability of students, while creating a privileged link with the socio-economic world. Training, research, guidance, employability, interdisciplinarity and exploitation of knowledge are the pillars of this establishment,largest university in France and the Francophone world. For more information:https://www.univamu.fr/en/university

Aix-Marseille University aims to increase the share of women in research and teaching and, therefore, explicitly encourages applications from women. As an international research institution, Aix-Marseille University particularly welcomes applications from abroad. 

Application Procedure

To apply, please submit the following materials:

• CV – including degrees and other completed courses, work experience and a list of degree projects/theses, language skills

• A cover letter (max. 1000 words, excl. references) describing your research interests, skills and motivation to apply for the position; describe any digital method(s) you have used

• Research statement

• A copy of relevant degree(s)

• Two work samples where you used digital methods (e.g. journal articles, thesis or book chapters, etc.)

• Two reference letters with contact details (the letters will be uploaded directly by the referees onto the AcademicJobsOnline platform).

Applications shall be submitted through the Academicjobsonline.org platform: 

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16696

Please send your application documents (a motivation letter, CV, copy of your PhD certificate, a dissertation chapter or one published paper and, optionally, work samples where you used digital methods in one PDF document.

Deadline: Applications will be received until a suitable candidate is recruited, but the first round of application reviews will start on 15 September 2020.

If you have any further enquiries about the position, please contact Prof. Christian Henriot at christian.r.henriot@gmail.com

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 788476). 

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