Internship on Applying theoretical Pragmatics in virtual human dialogue systems

The Institute for Creative Technologies in Los Angeles, California, offers a paid summer internship for a student (at any level) who wishes to pursue research on pragmatics and virtual humans in dialogue systems.

For a description of the project and the work involved, see: http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-155.html and http://ict.usc.edu/intern_positions/item/1154_research_assistant/. The application deadline is the 18th of February 2011.

Interested ILLC students can contact Raquel Fernandez (raquel.fernandez at uva.nl).