[Apologies for cross/multi-posting] Several fully funded three-year PhD positions are opened with LIA's Speech and Language Group, at Avignon University. One position is in Computational Linguistics, with a specialization in language translation. This position requires knowledge of several languages (and at least English and French, C1 level) and will take place in the context of FR Agorantic. The other PhD position is on the field of human-robot interactions. Full descriptions available at: - "L’écart en traduction : Compréhension, gestion et traitement des écarts linguistiques et culturelles par l’intelligence artificielle" - "The translation gap: Understanding, managing and processing linguistic and cultural gaps using artificial intelligence" Supervision: Fabrice Lefèvre and Laurent Lombard https://adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?site=avignon&matricule_prop=60863 - "Agentic LLM for pro-active multimodal human-robot interaction" Supervision: Fabrice Lefèvre https://adum.fr/as/ed/voirproposition.pl?site=avignon&matricule_prop=60862 Applications for both positions close on May 26.