34.1743, Support: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Semantics: PhD, Université Paris Cité

Thu Jun 1 04:05:02 UTC 2023

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1743. Thu Jun 01 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1743, Support: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Semantics: PhD, Université Paris Cité

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar, Francis Tyers (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Everett Green, Joshua Sims, Daniel Swanson, Matthew Fort, Maria Lucero Guillen Puon, Zackary Leech, Lynzie Coburn
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Erin Steitz <ensteitz at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: 30-May-2023
From: Jonathan Ginzburg [yonatan.ginzburg at u-paris.fr]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Semantics: PhD, Université Paris Cité

Institution/Organization: Université Paris Cité
Department: Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
Web Address: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Semantics; Dialogue

Description:

PhD studentship in Formal Linguistics/Socially Interactive
Agents/Machine learning, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université,
IRCAM

We are inviting applications for one PhD position (3 years) (funding
available 10/2023-09/2026) in the area of formal linguistics, Socially
Interactive Agents (SIAs), and machine learning.

The positions will be funded as part of the CNRS 80-PRIME The Laughing
Infant project jointly held by Jonathan Ginzburg (Laboratoire de
Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris Cité), Catherine
Pelachaud (L'institut des systèmes intelligents et de robotique
(ISIR), Sorbonne Université), and Nicolas Obin (Lab Sciences et
Technologies de la Musique et du Son, IRCAM).

The goal of The Laughing Infant (TELIN) project is to synthesize work
on language acquisition; the semantics, pragmatics, analysis, and
synthesis of laughter; Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs); and machine
learning with the aim of developing an SIA who will emulate an infant
during the acquisition of laughter. This will be done by using this
SIA to test several learning algorithms that take as input different
modalities (audio, facial expression, language) and contexts (playing
with toys, interacting with parents and siblings) to output said
laughter.

The successful candidate will work in three areas: formal linguistics,
virtual agent development, and machine learning.

The expected skills must include at least two of the following three
skills:
 - Strong expertise in formal semantics or pragmatics
 - Strong expertise in machine learning, and in particular in deep
neural networks
 - Proficiency in Python and Java

Required qualifications:
 - A master's degree in the fields of linguistics, computer science or
cognitive science
 - Excellent command of spoken and written scientific English
 - Autonomy, teamwork, productivity, rigor and methodology

The successful candidate will be accommodated part of the time at LLF,
part of the time at ISIR, and part of the time at IRCAM, in all cases
with a personal workstation. They will benefit from access to the
FurHat robot and the team's GPU computing servers, as well as the
servers of the Jean Zay supercomputer hosted by CNRS-IDRIS. They will
have access to the Ircam media library, as well as to the CNRS and
Sorbonne University online libraries.

Applicants are requested to submit the following materials with their
application directly to the email listed below:
 - A cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this
topic and what qualifies you for it;
 - An academic CV;
 - Your MSc thesis (or a current draft);
 - Copies of academic degree certificates; and
 - Names of two potential references.

Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF) (Université Paris Cité,
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr), L'institut des systèmes intelligents et de
robotique (ISIR) (Sorbonne Université, https://www.isir.upmc.fr) and
The  Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son lab (IRCAM and
Sorbonne Université,
https://www.stms-lab.fr/team/analyse-et-synthese-des-sons) are
internationally prominent CNRS labs in their respective
domains---formal linguistics, robotics, and music and sound
analysis/synthesis.

Application Deadline: 27-Jun-2023

Web Address for Applications:
https://sites.google.com/site/jonathanginzburgswebsite/telin-post

Contact Information:
Prof Jonathan Ginzburg
yonatan.ginzburg at u-paris.fr

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please consider donating to the Linguist List https://give.myiu.org/iu-bloomington/I320011968.html

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

American Dialect Society/Duke University Press http://dukeupress.edu

Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group) http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Dictionary Society of North America http://dictionarysociety.com/

Edinburgh University Press www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

Springer Nature http://www.springer.com

Wiley http://www.wiley.com

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1743
----------------------------------------------------------