Internship on "Natural Language & Speech processing for Virtual Assistants" 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 2017, 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, cognitive science, 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. Link to airbus job portal: http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/people-careers/jobs-and-applications/search-for-vacancies~lang=en~jobid=001A4B0A914A1ED6AAE68925418D010B~.html