Geoscience AI Postdoc: Conversational Agent & Ontologies

CNRS; France; Sur place; EUR 42 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CNRS, within the DATA TERRA program in France, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to develop a conversational agent for geology, focusing on descriptor selection using existing semantic resources.

The project spans ontologies, semantic alignment, HPC experiments, and collaboration with Earth science experts and Data Terra teams to deliver evaluable outputs and publications.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience with LLM-based applications or AI agents.
• Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL).
• Excellent written communication for diverse audiences.

Responsabilités

• Conduct a state-of-the-art review of ontologies and thesauri in solid Earth sciences.
• Contribute to semantic artifact requirements for PEPR use cases and REGEF stakeholders.
• Identify semantic resource alignment methods for the project.
• Identify the best query decomposition approach for this work.
• Develop the conversational agent based on three geology use cases.
• Design and implement experimental protocols on local HPC systems.
• Analyze results and contribute to method improvements.
• Identify and structure geological concepts from texts and databases.
• Automate updating and enrichment of geological terminologies.
• Collaborate with Earth science experts and Data Terra teams.
• Produce technical reports, documentation, and publications.

Connaissances

Python

LLM applications

Semantic Web

Written communication

Description du poste

CNRS, within the DATA TERRA program in France, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to develop a conversational agent for geology, focusing on descriptor selection using existing semantic resources.

The project spans ontologies, semantic alignment, HPC experiments, and collaboration with Earth science experts and Data Terra teams to deliver evaluable outputs and publications.