Research Positions in Dialogue at Universite Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)

[Anne Abeillé]

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> Research Positions in the Semantics/Pragmatics of Dialogue
> at Université Paris-Diderot  (Paris 7), FRANCE
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> The French-German (ANR/DFG) project Disfluencies, Exclamations, and
> Laughter in Dialogue (DUEL), joint between 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.).
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> 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  ).
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> 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'.
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> 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.
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> Requirements for post-doctoral position:
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> - Ph.D. (or completed by April 2014) in Formal Semantics, Natural
> Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
> - Strong publication record
> -  Programming skills will be  highly advantageous
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> starting date: 1 April 2014
> Duration: 36 months
> Application deadline: January 15, 2014
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> 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
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> PhD position:
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> 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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