Please forward to all possible interested person ----------------- The INRIA GRAVITÉ project in collaboration with LaBRI (CNRS) is offering a PhD position focusing on the visual and interactive exploration of semantic networks. The PhD 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. As a consequence, the interactive navigation of the network can exploit available results in graph visualization which is at the heart of our INRIA team. For more information and to apply, either email Guy.Melancon at inria.fr or go to GRAVITÉ's website http://gravite.labri.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