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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">We are looking for <b class="">excellent
candidates to fill two PhD positions that are currently
available at the University of Namur in the field of
artificial intelligence</b>, financed by the ARIAC project.
The two positions focus on the following research topics:</div>
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<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b class="">Language
games for ontology alignment under partial observability</b></li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span><b class="">Computational
construction grammar and procedural semantics for
multi-modal, linguistic, human-machine interaction</b></li>
</ul>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">The deadline for applying for these
positions is <b class="">July 1st 2022</b>. Soon-to-be
graduating master students are welcome to apply provided that
they will have graduated before the start of the position. A
more detailed description of the project and the application
procedure is included here below.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
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Dumas</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Full-time PhD researcher in artificial
intelligence - Université de Namur</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><i class="">Language games for ontology
alignment under partial observability (ARIAC project)</i></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><a
href="https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2022-05-17.7380520887"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2022-05-17.7380520887</a></div>
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line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration:
underline;"><a
href="https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/785563"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/785563</a></span><br>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Project</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">ARIAC by DigitalWallonia4.ai is a research
project funded by the Walloon Region bringing together the five
French-speaking universities and four Walloon research centres
with the primary objective of accelerating the development of
artificial intelligence technologies in Wallonia. The project is
part of the TRAIL (Trusted AI Labs) initiative, launched in
September 2020, which aims at enhancing the development of
artificial intelligence technologies in Wallonia.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">In the context of this position, you will
investigate how a population of agents can autonomously develop
a new language for exchanging information. The information held
by each agent might be stored in entirely different formats and
according to different ontologies. Through task-based
communicative interactions, the agents invent, adopt and align
the building blocks of an emergent language. This language can
then be used by all agents in the population to exchange
information, as it forms an abstraction layer over the
individual ontological organisations and storage formats.</div>
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line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">You will carry out this PhD project both
individually and in collaboration with other researchers in the
field. It is conceived as a 4-year program, starting with a
2-year contract that is renewable for up to 2 additional years.
You will be supervised by Prof. dr. K. Beuls and Prof. dr. A.
Cleve.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Profile</b></div>
<ul class="">
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You have obtained a
master’s degree in artificial intelligence, computer science,
linguistics, mathematics or a related domain. You have a solid
academic track record. </li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You are passionate
about building intelligent systems that are capable of
interacting with their users and environment through natural
language.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You strive for
excellence and have a scientific mindset.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You are a loyal team
player, who can work autonomously and deliver solid scientific
work.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You have strong
communication skills and a good command of English. Knowledge
of French is considered as a plus.</li>
</ul>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Additional information</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">For additional information please do not
hesitate to contact Prof. K. Beuls or Prof. A. Cleve (see
addresses below).</div>
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line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Important dates</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Submission deadline: <b class="">July 1st,
2022 (11h59 pm AoE).</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Expected starting date: September 1st,
2022.</div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">How to apply?</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Applications should be sent by e-mail to <a
href="mailto:secretariat.info@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">secretariat.info@unamur.be</a>, <a
href="mailto:katrien.beuls@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">katrien.beuls@unamur.be</a> AND <a
href="mailto:anthony.cleve@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">anthony.cleve@unamur.be</a> and
contain the following:</div>
<ul class="">
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A motivation letter
describing your interest in the research topic</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Your CV</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A copy of your diplomas
(Bachelor and Master, if available)</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A transcript with the
grades you obtained for each course taken on each university
year</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>The name and e-mail
address of two references to be contacted upon request</li>
</ul>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Title</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Full-time PhD researcher in artificial
intelligence - Université de Namur</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><i class="">Computational construction
grammar and procedural semantics for multi-modal, linguistic,
human-machine interaction (ARIAC project)</i></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><a
href="https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2022-05-17.2794384091"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2022-05-17.2794384091</a></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration:
underline;"><a
href="https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/785573"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/785573</a></span><br>
<span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Project</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">ARIAC by DigitalWallonia4.ai is a research
project funded by the Walloon Region bringing together the five
French-speaking universities and four Walloon research centres
with the primary objective of accelerating the development of
artificial intelligence technologies in Wallonia. The project is
part of the TRAIL (Trusted AI Labs) initiative, launched in
September 2020, which aims at enhancing the development of
artificial intelligence technologies in Wallonia.</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Current techniques for linguistic
human-machine interaction focus on either speech signals,
textual data or gestures. However, communication between humans
is multi-modal in nature. In particular, spoken utterances are
accompanied by gestures, pointing, eye gaze, facial expressions,
and prosody amongst others. These multi-modal channels are of
great importance to supporting the basic function of language,
i.e. exchanging information between individuals. A great
challenge for human-machine interaction resides thus in the
integration of multi-modal signals into a single device for
comprehending and producing natural language expressions. Within
the ARIAC project, we will develop a novel methodology for
multi-modal language comprehension and production. This
methodology will be situated within the framework of
computational construction grammar, a family of linguistic
theories which is well-suited to accommodate the representation
and processing of linguistic knowledge that combines different
sources of information. While the representation of the form of
linguistic expressions will consist in abstractions over data
captured through different feature channels, the representation
of the meaning of linguistic expressions will be formalised
using procedural semantics. In this way, the information
captured in the multi-modal linguistic expressions can be
executed by a machine, or a machine can produce multi-modal
expressions based on procedural semantic representations. The
primary application domain of this research will be systems for
multi-modal human-machine interaction, i.e. systems where humans
can give instructions to a machine by simultaneously speaking
and gesturing.</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">You will carry out this PhD project both
individually and in collaboration with other researchers in the
field. It is conceived as a 4-year program, starting with a
2-year contract that is renewable for up to 2 additional years.
You will be supervised by Prof. dr. K. Beuls and Prof. dr. B.
Dumas.</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Profile</b></div>
<ul class="">
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You have obtained a
master’s degree in artificial intelligence, computer science,
linguistics, mathematics or a related domain. You have a solid
academic track record. </li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You are passionate
about building intelligent systems that are capable of
interacting with their users and environment through natural
language.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You strive for
excellence and have a scientific mindset.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You are a loyal team
player, who can work autonomously and deliver solid scientific
work.</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>You have strong
communication skills and a good command of English. Knowledge
of French is considered as a plus.<br class="">
</li>
</ul>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Additional information</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">For additional information please do not
hesitate to contact Prof. K. Beuls or Prof. B. Dumas (see
addresses below).</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">Important dates</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Submission deadline: <b class="">July 1st,
2022 (11h59 pm AoE).</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Expected starting date: September 1st,
2022.</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class="">
</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><b class="">How to apply?</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;">Applications should be sent by e-mail to <a
href="mailto:secretariat.info@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">secretariat.info@unamur.be</a>, <a
href="mailto:katrien.beuls@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">katrien.beuls@unamur.be</a> AND <a
href="mailto:bruno.dumas@unamur.be"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">bruno.dumas@unamur.be</a> and
contain the following:</div>
<ul class="">
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A motivation letter
describing your interest in the research topic</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Your CV</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A copy of your diplomas
(Bachelor and Master, if available)</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>A transcript with the
grades you obtained for each course taken on each university
year</li>
<li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal;
line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-stretch:
normal; line-height: normal;"></span>The name and e-mail
address of two references to be contacted upon request</li>
</ul>
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