Overview
The Lattice lab of the Ecole normale supérieure, in the Paris area, is looking for a senior research engineer (post-doctoral contract) in computational social sciences, for 18 months, beginning on April 2024 or soon thereafter.
The main task will be to develop new methods in the domain of computational social sciences. This offer is part of the Medialex project, aiming at tracking influence strategies between the political sphere (esp. the Parliament) and the media sphere (esp. social media, but not only). The project focuses mainly on French use cases, but experiments outside the project corpora is also possible. Interesting topics are (among many others):
– tracking events in a flow of textual data (esp. social media)
– investigating influence strategies between the political sphere and the medias (esp. social medias)
– investigating how media coverage is influenced by other factors (political orientation, framing, etc.).
We are looking for candidates with a first experience in the domain, who have demonstrated an ability to develop original research mixing advanced NLP techniques and social sciences. A track record of publications in the domain is necessary. French does not need to be your mother tongue, but some command of the language is necessary to be able to work on French data.
Company:
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Qualifications:
Research Field
Computer science
Education Level
PhD or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
– A good command of NLP (esp. LLMs) and machine learning techniques
– A good command of python and related libraries
– Some experience in computational social sciences
– Some knowledge of French (+ English)
– Ability to work in a team, in interaction with researchers and engineers in computer science and in sociology
Language requirements:
Languages
ENGLISH
Level
Excellent
Languages
FRENCH
Level
Good
Educational level:
Ph. D.
