31.920, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, COBRA MSCA ITN

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Subject: 31.920, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, COBRA MSCA ITN

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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:23:18
From: Noel Nguyen [noel.nguyen-trong at univ-amu.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, COBRA MSCA ITN, Europe

 
University or Organization: COBRA MSCA ITN 
Job Location: , ---------------- 
Web Address: http://www.conversationalbrains.eu
Job Title: 15 PhD fellowships available in the Conversational Brains European project
Job Rank: Other; PhD Student

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; conversational interactions, artificial dialogue systems


Description:

A call for applications is open for 15 three-year contracts offered to
early-stage researchers (ESRs) wishing to enroll as PhD students in the
framework of the Conversational Brains (COBRA) project.  

COBRA is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the
European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to train ESRs
to accurately characterize and model the linguistic, cognitive and brain
mechanisms that allow conversation to unfold in both human-human and
human-machine interactions.  

The network comprises ten academic research centers on language, cognition and
the human brain, and four industrial partners in web-based speech technology,
conversational agents and social robots, in ten countries.  

The partners’ combined expertise and high complementarity will allow COBRA to
offer ESRs an excellent training programme as well as very strong exposure to
the non-academic sector.

  Deadline for submission of applications: 31 March 2020

Full information available at: https://www.conversationalbrains.eu

LIST OF AVAILABLE POSITIONS

ESR1: Categorization of speech sounds as a collective decision process 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Aix-Marseille University (France)

ESR2: Brain markers of between-speaker convergence in conversational speech
 Recruiter: Italian Institute of Technology, Ferrara (Italy), PhD enrolment
at: University of Ferrara

ESR3: Does prediction drive neural alignment in conversation? 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Aix-Marseille University (France)

ESR4: Brain indexes of semantic and pragmatic prediction 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

ESR5: Communicative alignment at the physiological level 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / ZAS, Berlin
(Germany)

ESR6: Alignment in human-machine spoken interaction 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: The University of Edinburgh (UK)

ESR7: Contribution of discourse markers to alignment in conversation 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Université catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

ESR8: Discourse units and discourse alignement 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment at: Université catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

ESR9: Acoustic-phonetic alignment in synthetic speech 
Recruiter & PhD enrolment: The University of Edinburgh (UK)

ESR10: Phonetic alignment in a non-native language 
Recruiter: Italian Institute of Technology, Ferrara (Italy), PhD enrolment at:
University of Ferrara

ESR11: Conversation coordination and mind-reading 
Recruiter: IISAS, Bratislava (Slovakia), PhD enrolment at: Slovak University
of Technology, Bratislava

ESR12: The influence of alignment 
Recruiter: IISAS, Bratislava (Slovakia), PhD enrolment at: Slovak University
of Technology, Bratislava

ESR13: Parametric dialogue synthesis: from separate speakers to conversational
interaction 
Recruiter: ReadSpeaker, Huis ter Heide (The Netherlands), PhD enrolment at:
Helsinki University (Finland)

ESR14: Gender and vocal alignment in speakers and robots 
Recruiter: Furhat Robotics, Stockholm (Sweden), PhD enrolment at:
Aix-Marseille University (France)

ESR15: Endowing robots with high-level conversational skills 
Recruiter: Furhat Robotics, Stockholm (Sweden), PhD enrolment at: Radboud
Univ., Nijmegen (The Netherlands)



Application Deadline: 31-Mar-2020 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://conversationalbrains.eu 
Contact Information:
	Tommaso Zaccaro 
	Email: tommaso.ZACCARO at univ-amu.fr 


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