Doctoral Position (M/F) Automated Detection of Intertextuality in Literary Corpora
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- FTC PhD student / Offer for thesis
- 36 months
- BAC+5
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Offer at a glance
The Unit
Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge
Contract Type
FTC PhD student / Offer for thesis
Working hHours
Full Time
Workplace
77454 CHAMPS SUR MARNE
Contract Duration
36 months
Date of Hire
01/11/2026
Remuneration
2300 € gross monthly
Apply Application Deadline : 31 July 2026 23:59
Job Description
Thesis Subject
This doctoral project aims to automatically detect intertextuality (quotations, allusions, rewritings, and adaptations) in large literary corpora. The goal is to process, quickly and efficiently, several hundred books using text-based algorithmic techniques (stringology) to search for excerpts from a first text that have been included—with varying degrees of modification—in a second text, while determining whether the identified textual similarities are significant or coincidental. The variability of the texts—due, for example, to 17th-century spelling or digitization errors—and the specific case of texts in verse must be taken into account, as must certain constraints useful for limiting the search space (for example, restricting the search to sources predating the text under study). An evaluation of the relevance of the developed approach and tool will be conducted on a literary corpus in terms of computation time, quality of results, and usability. Two application corpora will be used: one consisting of 17th-century political texts, and the other comprising the poetic works of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.
Your Work Environment
The doctoral research will take place at the Laboratoire d'informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM), within the ADA (Discrete Algorithms and Applications) team, under the supervision of Philippe Gambette, professor of computer science, with co-supervision by Delphine Amstutz, an associate professor in 17th-century French literature at Sorbonne University (Cellf). Collaborations are planned with Gregory Kucherov (LIGM) and Romain Jalabert (Cellf). An interest in interdisciplinary collaboration on French literary texts is therefore expected, in addition to algorithmic skills and the ability to code a prototype implementing the developed algorithms.
Compensation and benefits
Compensation
2300 € gross monthly
Annual leave and RTT
44 jours
Remote Working practice and compensation
Pratique et indemnisation du TT
Transport
Prise en charge à 75% du coût et forfait mobilité durable jusqu’à 300€
About the offer
| Offer reference | UMR8049-PHIGAM-002 |
|---|---|
| CN Section(s) / Research Area | Information sciences: bases of information technology, calculations, algorithms, representations, uses |
About the CNRS
The CNRS is a major player in fundamental research on a global scale. The CNRS is the only French organization active in all scientific fields. Its unique position as a multi-specialist allows it to bring together different disciplines to address the most important challenges of the contemporary world, in connection with the actors of change.
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