LINGUIST List 29.928
Tue Feb 27 2018
Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Aix-Marseille
Editor for this issue: Clare Harshey <clarelinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Feb-2018
From: Philippe Blache <blache
lpl-aix.fr>
Subject: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Aix-Marseille, France
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Institution/Organization:
Aix-Marseille
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
univ-amu.fr> or
Magalie Ochs
lis-lab.fr>.
Applications 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
blachelpl-aix.fr
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