Description du poste

As France's national geological survey, the BRGM (Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières) is the country's leading public body when it comes to earth science, responsible for managing resources and risks relating to the earth and the subsurface (www.brgm.eu). The work carried out by the BRGM is geared towards scientific research, supporting public policies and international cooperation.

You will therefore be primarily responsible for:
- Contributing to a scientific state of the art in the textual analysis of tweets and social media analysis
- Contributing to the development of methodologies and algorithms for tweets geolocalization: (Natural language processing methods, analysis of the relational network of tweets and consideration of phenomena)
- Recognition, extraction and contextualization of location information that can be found in tweets messages (named spatial entities and spatial relationships);
- Enrichment of the analysis of these geographical mentions contained in the tweets by a contextual consideration of other available knowledge (credibility of the Twitter user, analysis of its history, but also phenomenology of natural hazards, alert notifications, sensor data, etc.).
- Implementing these methodologies
- Contributing to technical reports and presentations
- Writing articles in international journals and attending to conferences