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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Xerox Research Centre Europe</b>, located in Grenoble, France, is offering the following internship for early 2016:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Dialogue Prediction and Response Generation<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">See: <a href="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Deep-Recurrent-Neural-Networks-for-Dialogue-Prediction-and-Response-Generation">
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Deep-Recurrent-Neural-Networks-for-Dialogue-Prediction-and-Response-Generation</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Contact</b> : Marc Dymetman <a href="mailto:marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com">
marc.dymetman@xrce.xerox.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Please mention “RNNs for Dialogue and NLG” <span lang="EN-CA">
in your subject line.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>Duration</b>: around 5 months <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Start date</b>: around January/February 2016<span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The application of Deep Learning techniques to conversational interactions has recently emerged as an important research topic in the Machine Learning community,
and XRCE has started to be strongly engaged in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In particular, we are actively working in the domain of task-oriented dialogues in relation to the customer call-centers Xerox manages, and have access to significant
amounts of interaction data in these domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are looking for an intern who will help us improve some of our current Recurrent Neural Network models for dialogue prediction and generation for these task-oriented
conversations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The ideal candidate is Computer Science student at the
<b>Master</b> <b>or</b> (preferably) <b>PhD</b> <b>level</b>, with a background in Machine Learning (preferably including Deep Learning techniques) and NLP. Strong programming skills are a requirement (Python, C++, Java…) and knowledge of such toolkits as Theano,
Torch, TensorFlow would be a plus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Conference publication of the work will be strongly encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">See XRCE’s page above for more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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