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Dear all,

We are offering a fully funded PhD position at the crossroads between Natural Language Processing and Information Theory. The proposed title is "Statistical analyses of lexical distributions with an application to anomaly detection in natural texts", and the thesis will be jointly supervised by: - François Yvon (LISN, CNRS), - Pablo Piantanida (ILLS, CNRS - University of Paris-Saclay)

Application deadline: July 14th, 2022

The thesis will be a collaboration between LISN (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique) of Université Paris-Saclay and the ILLS (International Laboratory on Learning Systems) of McGill University jointly with ETS Montreal and MILA (Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle) in Canada. Further information are available on the respective web sites: - LISN: https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/ - ILLS: https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/fr/channels/news/un-laboratoire-international...

Applications should be submitted only via this link, where more information about the position is available: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offre/Default.aspx?Ref=UMR9015-FRAYVO-009

If you are interested, please submit your application including the following elements: • Detailed CV, • Letter of motivation, • Details of transcripts (especially M1 and M2), • Elements of bibliography or personal achievements related to a research activity (e.g. master project, research internship subject, etc.), • 2 recommendation letters

François Yvon and Pablo Piantanida --- F. Yvon LISN/CNRS 01 69 15 82 42 rue John Von Neumann Campus Universitaire d'Orsay - Bâtiment 508 91 405 Orsay Cédex http://perso.limsi.fr/yvon