====PhD position at IRIT/Toulouse University on Hate Speech Detection=======
***Deadline to apply: 15 June 2018***
The Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT, https://www.irit.fr/) at Toulouse University (south west France) is offering a three-years PhD grant available from October 1st 2018 on Natural language Processing. The PhD will join the MELODI team (https://www.irit.fr/-MELODI-Team-?lang=en) a highly internationally recognized group working on NLP and knowledge representation. The PhD student will also work in collaboration with communication scientists from the MediaPolis team at Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS, https://www.lerass.com/).
The candidate will work on Hate Speech Detection in Social Media continuing our previous work on sentiment analysis and irony detection.
**Candidate specification**
We are looking for an excellent student with a Master degree in computer science or a related, relevant discipline. The ideal candidate should have:
--Experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine learning and information extraction from social media
--Experience in sentiment/emotion analysis will be a plus
--Strong programming skills in Python/Java
--Excellent writing and communication skills in English
--French knowledge is a plus.
**How to apply**
The applicant will be required to send a detailed up-to-date CV, two references (one of which must be academic) and a covering letter by email to: benamara@irit.fr and veronique.moriceau@irit.fr
The deadline to apply is June 15th 2018 but consideration of candidates will continue until the position is filled
**Salary**
The PhD will be funded by a grant from Université Fédérale de Toulouse with a salary of 1420 euros/month after taxes.
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Farah Benamara Zitoune
Associate Professor HDR, Université Paul Sabatier
IRIT-CNRS
118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse.
Tel : +33 561558298
http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara
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