Research position on abusive language detection@University of Côte d'Azur,France

[BigBrother]

Background and objectives

Can Artificial Intelligence help preventing and fight cyberviolence, cyberbullying and hate online? Addressing such question is the goal of the proposed postdoctoral/research engineer position, that proposes to rely on natural language processing methods to detect hate messages exchanged in social networks and automatically generate counter-arguments to oppose hate content.

More specifically, the candidate will focus on:

- the refinement and integration of existing technologies for social media monitoring and hate-speech detection developed by the hosting team
- the improvement of their robustness and portability to the French language
- the generation of counter-arguments to oppose hate content

The postdoctoral/research engineer position is funded by the OTESIA project "L'intelligence artificielle au service de la prévention de la cyberviolence, du cyberharc?lement et de la haine en ligne" (https://otesia.eu/limpact-de-lia-et-la-cyberviolence/), IDEX UCAJedi, "Investissement d'Avenir".

Candidate profile

Mandatory requirements for applicants:

- Ph.D. or Master in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics;
- Experience in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning;
- Excellent programming skills;
- Good English skills in writing and communication
- French language skills would be highly appreciated

Terms of the postdoctoral/research engineer position

Duration: 15 months

Starting date: October 2020

Hosting team: WIMMICS (http://wimmics.inria.fr <http://wimmics.inria.fr/>), a joint research team between INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée  and I3S (CNRS and University of Côte d'Azur).

Location: I3S laboratory, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Salary: around 2,000 euros per month net income (depending on the candidate experience)

Applications : To apply, please send a detailed CV, a motivation letter and an outline of previous work or research experience along with the names of up to three referees (if available) to Elena Cabrio (elena.cabrio@unice.fr) and Serena Villata (villata@i3s.unice.fr)

Deadline for applications: September 15th, 2020.