[Corpora-List] PhD position in Natural Communication and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University

[afra alishahi]

Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) invites applications
for a four-year PhD position. The candidate will work on the 'Learning to
Communicate via Social and Linguistic Interaction' project, which is funded
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of
the Natural Artificial Intelligence programme. The project is a
collaboration with the Interaction Intelligence Group of Prof. Catholijn
Jonker at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The goal of this
multidisciplinary project is to design, implement and analyse an
agent-based model in which artificial agents use and learn language and
related communicative skills by interacting with each other. Learning will
be based on input from a collection of video recordings, containing
annotated observations of young children interacting with their caregiver.
The selected candidate will be a member of the Department of Communication
and Information Sciences in the School of Humanities of Tilburg University.
He or she is expected to have written a PhD thesis by the end of the
contract. The position can start as early as 1 January 2015, but the exact
starting date is negotiable.

More information (in Dutch) on the Natural Artificial Intelligence
programme and this project is available at:
http://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2014/ew/nederland-investeert-in-kennis-over-kunstmatige-en-natuurlijke-intelligentie-voor-wereldwijde-oplossingen.html

We seek a candidate with a (research) master in articial intelligence,
cognitive science, computational linguistics, computer science or a related
area, and with excellent, demonstrated programming skills. The ideal
candidate should also have experience in designing cognitive and/or
agent-based models. Furthermore, knowledge about statistics and language
acquisition is a plus. The candidate should have excellent academic
qualifications as indicated by their academic records, a strong interest in
doing research, and a good command of oral and written English.

Specific information about the vacancy and detailed information about the
project can be obtained from the supervisors, dr. Paul Vogt (P.A.Vogt at uvt.nl
), dr. Afra Alishahi (A.Alishahi at uvt.nl) or Prof. Emiel Krahmer (
E.J.Krahmer at uvt.nl). Applying for this vacancy can only be done online. The
application including a motivation letter and CV must be submitted via the
link at the bottom of the page no later than November 10, 2014. If you
receive this announcement via e-mail, please look at the vacancy located
at: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/working-at/wp.
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