Sujet de these: Ambient Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble / University of Aberdeen

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:36:30 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <5122669E.6080901 at imag.fr>

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PHD POSITION IN COMPUTING SCIENCE : AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND NATURAL
LANGUAGE PROCESSING AT GRENOBLE LIG-LAB (France) AND UNIVERSITY OF
ABERDEEN (Scotland)
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TOPIC
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This project will investigate the potential for computers to summarize
ambient personal information through automatically generated narratives.
The work focuses on data continuously collected through smart phones.
The proposition involves three main scientific tasks: abstraction of
smart-phone data (Data processing), organisation of the content in the
form of a story (Computational narratology), expression of this story in
natural language (Natural Language Generation).

CONTEXT
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This thesis will take place within the context of a collaboration
between the University of Aberdeen and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de
Grenoble. Both institution will be involved in the supervision of the
thesis and the candidate will visit the two sites regularly.


APPLICATION DETAILS
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The research is expected to be funded by the DGA/DSTL funding scheme. If
you are interested in this funding, please send the following
information to francois.portet at imag.fr, catherine.garbay at imag.fr and
ehud.reiter at abdn.ac.uk :
- a letter of motivation,
- a detailed Resume,
- a copy of all diplomas after high school and
- the detailed list of all the marks obtained in the Master and Bachelor
  degrees.


REQUIREMENTS & ELIGIBILITY
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Due to the funding scheme, only French or British Nationals can apply.
The high-standard successful candidate will possess a Master degree
covering primarily the field of Artificial Intelligence or Natural
Language Processing. Additional skills that would be appreciated are
Semantic web, Signal Processing or Computation Creativity. Autonomy and
openness are also required.


Closing date for applications: 1st April 2013

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