Denmark : Marie Curie PhD Scholarship in Multimodal Communication Modeling at the University of Copenhagen

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Language Technology, is inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in multimodal communication modeling starting 1 September, 2010 for a period of up to three years. The position involves participation in the EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (http://clara.uib.no, http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/).

The applicant can not be a Danish citizen, except if the applicant has legally resided and had his/her main activity in a non–associated third country for at least three of the last four years immediately prior to his/her employment. Further, applicants must not have resided or performed their main activity in Denmark more than 12 months in the 3 year period immediately prior to the start date of the PhD scholarship.

The CLARA network offers an intensive research exchange programme between 16 participating institutions. While staying with the host institution (University of Copenhagen) for most of the time, the programme allows for a shorter stay at a second academic or industrial partner institution (second-ment). As part of the PhD level activities, the successful candidate will be expected to partake actively in training activities organised by CLARA. This includes summer schools, seminars and courses organised locally and at other network institutions. As the project is funded by an EU mobility scheme, there are certain mobility requirements.

Multimodal Communication Modeling

The position involves participation in the CLARA subproject Multimedia and Multimodal Communication Modeling, which is a cooperation between the University of Copenhagen and Max Planck Institute, Germany. The overall goal of the subproject is to study human communicative multimodal behavior empirically.

The objective of the PhD project is to produce insight on essential aspects of multimodal behavior such as feedback, dialogue management, information structure and reference, by conducting empirical studies on audiovisual cor-pora. Analysis methods will be based on manual annotation but also on auto-matic methods such as machine learning. Existing multimodal corpora and/or multimodal data annotated within the PhD project will be used to produce empirically-based evidence of how specific non-verbal behaviors are used in human communication. Relevant research issues are, for example, to which extent non-verbal behavior may be captured in formal categories that an algorithm can be trained to recognize; the importance of the cultural context in interpreting behavior; or whether a universal core can be defined for non-verbal behaviors, similarly to what certain linguistic schools have attempted to do for language. Analyses of multimodal communication in different cultural settings, communication situations and social contexts are also relevant.

For further information on the Centre for Language Technology, see www.cst.ku.dk. Contact person at the Centre is Senior Researcher Costanza Navarretta (costanza@hum.ku.dk) telephone +45 35 32 90 79, and Senior Researcher, Bolette S. Pedersen (bspedersen@hum.ku.dk) telephone +45 35 32 90 78.

Application procedure

Applicants need to hold a two-year Master's degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent, or expect to receive such by August 31, 2010. Applicants shall have submitted their thesis at the time of application, to the extent the thesis forms part of their Master's programme. Applicants with a non-Danish Master's degree will have their degree assessed by The Danish Agency for International Education to establish, if their Master's degree is equivalent to a Danish Mas-ter's degree. More information about The Danish Agency for International Education is available at: http://www.studyindenmark.dk/

The PhD scholar will be employed at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. Enrolment as a PhD scholar at the Faculty of Humanities' Graduate School is a precondition for employment as a PhD scholar. A description of the PhD study programme is available at: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/

Employment as a PhD scholar occurs pursuant to the applicable rules of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).

Applications shall be submitted via the electronic application system efond. Do not submit any publications. Application form and application guidelines on research proposal and required enclosures are available at: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/Announcements/
A certified copy of the applicant's Master's Degree diploma needs to be submitted as an enclosure to the application. Certification shall be by a public authority such as the institution having issued the diploma or a public bureau specialising in diploma certification. The applicant may be asked to submit the originally certified copy of the Master's Degree diploma after the application deadline. Application deadline is 15 March, 2010 at 12 noon Central European time. No supplementary documents will be considered after this deadline. As an equal opportunity employer, the Faculty of Humanities invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion.

For any further questions in relation to the application procedure please contact the PhD Centre, tel. +45 35 32 92 23, e-mail: phdcenter@hum.ku.dk, Room 10.1.22, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark.

Further Information

Application Deadline : 15 March 2010

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