[Air-L] Job offer: Postdoctoral position Geographical enrichment of Twitter data

[Babiga Birregah]

Dear Colleagues,

We are actively looking for a Postdoctoral researcher in Twitter #BigData
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analysis. Please spread this announcement or if you are interested let me
know.

Regard

Postdoctoral position: Geographical enrichment of Twitter data

Ref N° DL07-1718-OCRN

Deadline: Opened till position filled

Starting date: September 2017

The candidate will participate in the project OCRN with the BRGM which is
the french public institution for Earth Science applications in the
management of surface and subsurface resources and risks. This project OCRN
deals with the management of natural disaster crisis management by
gathering user generated informations such as social media.

In the case of social networks like Twitter it is difficult to identify the
geographical location of the tweets. However, the implementation of a GIS
remains strongly dependent on our ability to enrich the tweets collected by
an inference of the geographical position of the messages.

Several algorithms in the literature propose to identify the geographical
position of emission of a message either from its content, or by assessing
the quality of its links with its contacts.

The successful candidate will work on the following tasks.

(1) conduct a state of art for the implementation of a multi-indicator
approach for tweet geographical position identification,

(2) implement a geoinference online tool by integrating an iterative
approach for geographic enrichment of a tweets database,

Particular attention will be paid to the privacy of the profiles whose
tweets will be analyzed.

To qualify, applicants must hold a Ph.D in computer science or data mining.
Knowledge in geographical Information system and Twitter API would be
appreciated.

Grant: 1-year postdoctoral position  with possible renewal upon results and
mutual consent.

Salary: remuneration based on the postdoctoral salary scale at UTT

To apply send us your CV and a letter of motivation stating how your
competencies can fit the research agenda. In the subject of your email put
the reference DL07-1718-OCRN.

Cotact: babiga[DOT]birregah[@]utt.fr


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BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd
Enseignant-Chercheur/ Assistant professor
ICD UMR-CNRS 6281 (Université de Technologie de Troyes)

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