[agents] Research engineer position in Dialogic Multimodal Interaction

[Alexandre Pauchet]

Laboratory: LITIS, INSA Rouen, Normandy University, France

Project: NARECA (http://nareca.litislab.fr/)

Summary :
Modelling multimodal affective interaction is a well known 
multidisciplinary problem in human-computer interaction. This modelling 
is usually based on a corpus of multimodalannotated dialogues, whose 
analysis consists in identifying a set of significant recurring 
behaviours (i.e. providing a model).

The objective of this research project is to learn a multimodal 
interaction model for a narrative virtual agent interacting with a 
child. This interaction model will be based on a set of dialogic 
patterns semi-automatically extracted from a training corpus. In the 
corresponding use case, the corpus of dialogues consists in interactive 
narrative sessions and our goal is to transform this data into an 
interaction model by extracting patterns. Since this model is dedicated 
to be integrated in a narrative virtual character, it will manage 
multimodal and emotional components used both to recognize the child's 
affect and to manage the verbal and non-verbal behaviour of thevirtual 
character during an interactive storytelling session.

The research engineer assigned to the project will work closely with the 
research staff of the project NARECA (permanent and post-doctoral) and 
the other project partners (LIMSI, Psy.NCA, Greyc and Powowbox) to the 
design and implementation of demonstrators. It will therefore mainly 
work to
1) integrate the machine learning and pattern extractionalgorithms 
developed during the project into theVIESA platform 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/viesa /), dedicated to dialogue analysis;
2) to deploy in a virtual agent the dialogic interaction model using the 
AgentSlang platform (http://agent.roboslang.org/).

Candidate Profile: Computer science engineer

  * Good level in programming (Java)
  * Strong background in machine learning and existing toolbox
  * Experiences in Human-Computer Interaction, Conversational Agents,
    natural language dialogue would be a plus.

Duration and remuneration: until 10.31.2017, 2 482 euros

Application must be sent to: alexandre.pauchet at insa-rouen.fr

  * Curriculum vitae
  * Cover letter
  * Recently graduated students: academic transcripts

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Alexandre Pauchet
Associate Professor
INSA Rouen - ASI Department
LITIS Lab
Phone: +33(0)2 32 95 98 58
Web:http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/