Job announcement

[Nicholas Asher]

In the context of the ERC-Advanced Researcher Grant 269427, STAC (Strategic
Conversation), IRIT is seeking to hire a post-doctoral researcher with a
specialization in game theory and the logic of games or game logics, who is interested in applying game theoretic techniques to the analysis of conversation and underlying strategic reasoning. Knowledge of classical game theory is required and empirical evaluations of game theoretic techniques, as well as knowledge of discourse representation theories, will be a plus.

The STAC group, headed by Nicholas Asher, has several decades experience in the formal semantic and pragmatic analysis of dialogue. Since the nineties, we have been interested in game theoretic analyses of conversational defaults and are in the process of developing a general game theoretic model of strategic conversation integrating our rich theory of discourse structure and interpretation, SDRT. In STAC, we plan to develop this model and variants further and to test their validity relative to corpus data that we are gathering and will be analyzing. The corpus data will come from on line games, as well as other sources (role playing dialogue).

Experience:
The postdoctoral researcher must have a PhD in Logic, economics or linguistics with a specialization conforming to the requirements above. A strong publication record is expected in fields related to the project. Basic knowledge of linguistics is also required. Knowledge of discourse analysis theories will be a plus as well as experience with learning from structured data.

Please send your application to: {asher, vieu} [at] irit.fr. Attach at least: CV, publication list, short statement of research interests, and names and email addresses of 2-3 people willing to give a recommendation letter. Review of applications will start on November 1st 2011 and continue until the position is filled.

Language:
English and possibly also French are the languages of the data we will be considering. If the candidate is fluent in English, French is not required but will be considered a plus.

Period:
1 to 2 years, starting preferably on January 1, 2012
Salary: 2919 euro (approx. $4000) brut per month.

Laboratory:
IRIT, CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier
http://www.irit.fr/

About Toulouse:
Toulouse is ideally situated in the heart of Southern France, between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean and very close to the
Pyrenees mountains, Spain and Andorra. For more information:
http://www.uk.toulouse-tourisme.com/accueil/index_en.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse
http://wikitravel.org/en/Toulouse