2nd CFP – Laughter Workshop, Sorbonne University, Paris, 27-28 September, 2018

2nd CFP: Laughter Workshop, Sorbonne University, Paris, 27-28 September, 2018 http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction. Following previous workshops…

[Internship] Setup and Deployment of a Web service framework for Natural Language Processing, Paris

ELDA is opening an internship on Setup and Deployment of a Web service framework for Natural Language Processing in Paris (France), starting on January 2017 for 6 months. Profile Studies: MSc. Field: Computer Science Provisional starting date: January 2017 Duration: 6 months Duties In the software development team at ELDA and under the supervision of an Engineer specialised in Natural Language Processing and Web Application Development, you will participate in the following tasks:     provide a concise state of the art on the natural language processing-oriented web service deployment solutions;…