Post-doctoral research position in Computational Linguistics at ZAS, Berlin (Germany)

The Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, invites applications for a post-doctoral researcher specializing in computational linguistics with expertise in developing dialogue systems with a starting date of June 1st, 2013, or soon thereafter.

The position will be part of a research project funded by the German Research Foundation on "Pragmatic Requirements for Answer Generation in a Sales Dialogue" (PRAGSales; Principal Investigators: Anton Benz, ZAS, and Ralf Klabunde, University of Bochum). The goal of the project is to model three interacting pragmatic aspects of utterance generation between an artificial consultant and human customers: the use of rhetorical relations, framing effects, and implicatures. The key innovative aspect of this project is the application of game theoretic methods to the generation of pragmatically optimal answers.

Application Deadline: 15 March 2013. Further information can be found at the project website at http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/pragsales.html?&L=1 or by contacting Anton Benz via e-mail at benz at zas.gwz-berlin.de.