The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a one-year post-doc position. The successful candidate will be involved in an advanced research project dedicated to the visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks. The project takes place within the ANR TANGUY project headed by Thalès Communications and in collaboration with Xerox (XRCE Grenoble) and the law firm FIDAL. The project aims at designing a methodology to support the incremental construction and easy use of semantic networks. The development of a (prototype) system should help law experts to deal with large document collections from which potential facts have to be identified, extracted, organized and ultimately validated or annotated. Starting from valid pieces of information extracted from text document (Xerox expertise), our goal is to offer adapted mechanisms to visualize, navigate and annotate all this information. The construction of a network of facts should follow from semantic proximity between pieces of information or from users’ knowledge. The awarded candidate will be involved in multi-disciplinary and fundamental research residing mainly at the crossings of computational linguistic, artificial intelligence and information visualization. Several directions of research may be followed depending on the goals and competences of the selected candidate. Prior knowledge in (some) of the following areas shall be positively considered: network science, graph theory, graph drawing, graph visualization. We seek for candidates with a (strong) programming experience in C++. Past experience using the Tulip (graph visualization) platform is a plus. Preference will also be given to candidates that have demonstrated their abilities to carry out research at top international standards and to publish their results in international journals. The starting date of the position is opened. To apply, please send your resume and research statement by email to Guy.Melancon at inria.fr -- Guy Melançon INRIA Bordeaux -- Sud-Ouest CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI Campus Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la libération 33405 Talence Cedex France Tel. +33 540 008 881 Fax +33 540 006 669 Bureau 269