[Corpora-List] Research Positions in Dialogue at Universite Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)

[Yonatan Ginzburg]

                                         >Apologies for multiple 
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Research Positions in the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue
at Université Paris-Diderot  (Paris 7), FRANCE
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Université Paris-Diderot (PI: Jonathan Ginzburg) and the University of 
Bielefeld (PI: David Schlangen) are recruiting a researcher for a 
postdoctoral position in the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue to be 
held at the  Université Paris-Diderot  (Paris 7). A PhD post  at Paris 
associated with the project might also become available, subject to 
funding/selection (see below for details.).


The project  will involve collaborations with members of the 
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF, http://www.llf.cnrs.fr ) at 
Paris-Diderot (Paris 7, www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/), with the 
Laboratory of Excellence LabEx-EFL (http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=en), 
and with members of the Dialogue Systems Group at Bielefeld University 
(  http://www.dsg-bielefeld.de  ).

Over recent years much evidence has accumulated that disfluencies, far 
from being meaningless noise, contain much useful information that 
guides language users' actions and evaluations of their interlocuters' 
states of mind. Moreover, they exhibit rule-like regularities on all 
levels (including phonology, syntax, and semantics.).  In DUEL we aim 
to show how disfluent speech across a number of languages (including 
French, German, English, and Chinese) can be analyzed in a precise way 
on the basis of formal grammatical tools,  using  this theory to guide 
the design of dialogue systems which can deal head on with disfluent 
speech, exploiting the information therein rather than  filtering it 
away.  DUEL will also tackle another phenomenon that has not hitherto 
received attention from formal grammarians, namely laughter.  Our aim 
is to develop precise analyses of  how laughter is integrated in the 
emergence of meaning, precise enough to enable dialogue systems that 
understand and respond to laughter to be implemented. The tools 
developed in DUEL to analyze disfluency and laughter, formalized using 
the dialogue framework KoS, will  enable a variety of other dialogical 
phenomena that have been somewhat marginal to be analyzed, e,g, 
exclamations, tag questions, and corrective particles such as `No'.

Paris is one of the world's greatest cities to visit and even more so 
to live and do research in. It hosts more than a dozen labs in the 
cognitive and language sciences and is within easy train/plane ride to 
the rest of Europe.

Requirements for post-doctoral position:

- Ph.D. (or completed by April 2014) in Formal Semantics, Natural 
Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
- Strong publication record
-  Programming skills will be  highly advantageous

starting date: 1 April 2014
Duration: 36 months
Application deadline: January 15, 2014

Interested candidates should send their CV and the names and contact 
information of 3 referees to Jonathan Ginzburg 
(yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr).

PhD position:

Candidates interested in a PhD position, which would start in 
September 2014, should note that this involves an application process 
via the Language Sciences Graduate School of Université Paris-Diderot 
in May-June 2014. More details from Jonathan Ginzburg 
(yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr).




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