29.928, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Aix-Marseille

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Subject: 29.928, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Aix-Marseille

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:27:58
From: Philippe Blache [blache at lpl-aix.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Aix-Marseille, France

 Institution/Organization: Aix-Marseille 
Department:  

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
Artificial intelligence 

Description:

PhD fellowship

Towards a Computational Model of Social Skills for Human-Computer Interaction

Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS

The goal of this project is to develop a computational model of social skills
for multimodal interaction systems. The model will focus more precisely on a
specific context, task oriented dialogues, in which all semantic and pragmatic
aspects are controlled. It will be built by means on different machine
learning methodologies applied to the analysis of natural corpora. This work
will be part of an ongoing project (http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~acorformed/),
aiming at developing a virtual reality system for training doctors to break
bad news, with an embodied conversational agent playing the role of a virtual
patient. 

The PhD is organized around 4 main tasks: 
- Describing the social skills relevant to the use case, with a specific focus
on empathy and persuasion, through a corpus analysis. This task is done in
collaboration with doctors involved in such training activities.
- Modeling the social skills, by means of machine learning techniques
- Implementing the social skills in the communication environment
- Developing a tool for the automatic evaluation of doctor's skills, adapted
to the training goals

The PhD candidate should have a master's degree completed in one of the fields
below:
- Computer science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural language processing
- Applied mathematics

The candidate should have a strong background in machine learning and modeling
methods. Some complementary previous experience would be appreciated in the
following topics:
- Human-computer interaction
- Multimodal data processing
- Data acquisition
- Corpus-based studies
- Affective computing
- Conversational agents

This fellowship is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND action. It is a
three-year work contract, with a monthly net salary of approximately
1625€/month, a 500€ travel allowance per year between Marseille and the place
of origin, a financial support for international research training and
conferences participations plus a contribution to the research costs of up to
12.600€. 

More information here:
https://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/towards-a-computational-model-of-social-skills-
for-human-computer-interaction-so-human 

For any question, contact Philippe Blache <philippe.blache at univ-amu.fr> or
Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at lis-lab.fr>.
 

Application Deadline: 09-Apr-2018 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr Philippe Blache 
	5 Avenue Pasteur 
	Aix-en-Provence 13100 
	France 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/towards-a-computational-model-of-social-skills-for-human-computer-interaction-so-human 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Philippe Blache 
	blache at lpl-aix.fr  


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