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Two postdoctoral positions on Dialogue Systems, Edinburgh (Scotland), Deadline: 3 May 2011

2 Postdoc positions on Dialogue Systems at the University of Edinburgh

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh invites 
applications for 2 three-year postdoctoral positions on DIALOGUE SYSTEMS, 
a research assitant and a research fellow, commencing June 1st, 2011 or as 
soon as possible thereafter. The deadline for applications is 3rd May.

Candidates should have experience in building and evaluating dialogue 
systems and an excellent track record in publishing papers as first author 
or co-author in high quality journals and conferences on such research. In 
addition, a working knolwedge of formally precise computational semantic 
models of dialogue processing and/or a background in formal models of 
human action and decision making (e.g., game theory, BDI logics, logics of 
preferences or AI-based models of planning) would be highly desirable.

The researcher will form part of a team that includes researchers in 
Toulouse, Edinburgh and Heriot Watt funded on an ERC grant entitled 
"Strategic Conversation". This grant aims to study and analyse 
non-cooperative natural language conversations in several domains, but in 
particular in the domain of the game Settlers of Catan (a trading game 
over restricted resources).

The job ads can be found at:
The postdoc RA:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3014231
The postdoc Research Fellow:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3014232
For more information, contact Alex Lascarides at alex@inf.ed.ac.uk.