Post-doc position open
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The Speech and Language Technology Group in Le Mans University is looking for
a post-doc scientist to develop autonomous systems

Keywords: Deep Learning, lifelong, autonomous systems, unsupervised learning,
active-learning, interactive-learning

Context
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The LST team from LIUM (Le Mans University) is focusing on autonomous system?s  behavior
for the task of speaker diarization and machine translation. The ALLIES project
(European Chist-ERA collaborative project) aims at developing evaluation protocols,
metrics
and scenarios for lifelong learning autonomous systems. The goal is to enable
auto-adaptable
systems that can also auto-evaluate in order to sustain their performance across time.
Autonomous systems can rely on human domain experts via active and interactive learning
processes to be define within the ALLIES project.

Missions
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Develop an autonomous system for speaker diarization by integrating lifelong learning,
active and interactive learning components. The research work will be related to some of
the following topics:
    - unsupervised adaptation
    - unsupervised evaluation
    - active learning (based on the unsupervised evaluation process, the autonomous system
        is free to require additional knowledge from the human domain expert)
    - Interactive learning (a human domain expert provides specific knowledge to the
autonomous
        system.  This  information must be taken into account by the system)
    - Performance will be analyzed using protocols, metrics and scenarios developed for
the ALLIES project.

Participation to the ALLIES benchmarking evaluation for speaker diarization.
During the ALLIES project, LIUM is organizing two international evaluation
campaigns (one for Speaker Diarization jointly organized with Albayzin and the
second one for Machine Translation jointly with WMT)
The benchmarking evaluation will serve to validate approaches developed during the
post-doc

Dissemination
The research will be published in the major conferences and journals

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Duration: 12 months
Salary: 2 365,14? (after taxes)

Start: as soon as possible, latest January 2020

Location: LIUM, Le Mans University

Supervisers: Anthony Larcher (anthony.larcher@univ-lemans.fr) and Loïc Barrault
(loic.barrault@univ-lemans.fr)

Expected competences:
    - Phd in Machine Learning and Deep Learning
    - Experience in speech processing is positive
    - Python fluent
    - familiar with a deep learning toolkit (Pytorch, TensorFlow)

ALLIES website: https://projets-lium.univ-lemans.fr/allies/