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Airbus Human Factor's department is offering an internship on the topic of "Natural Language & Speech processing for Virtual Assistants" (6 months between February and September 2016, located in Toulouse, France).

We are targeting 2nd- year master students with knowledge and prior experience in one or several of these domains: natural language processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, computer science.

Expected soft skills are: multidisciplinarity, scientific rigor, autonomy, English spoken – fluent French is not required.

The final topic will be decided with the candidate depending on his/her skills and interests. Possible topics may be (non-exhaustive):

• Definition of test protocols to measure maturity of on-the-shelf solutions;
• Comparative study of human-human vs human-machine communications;
• Dialog modelization and creation of resources for human-machine dialog systems.

To apply for the position, the candidate should both apply online at airbus job portal and send an email to Emmanuelle CANNESSON (Emmanuelle.cannesson@airbus.com) and Estelle DELPECH (estelle.e.delpech@airbus.com) before end of December 2016.