Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

• Program: ERC Advanced Grant

• Project acronym: STAC

• Project title: Strategic conversation

• Duration: Sept. 2011 - Aug. 2016

• Coordinator: Nicholas Asher, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT (France)

• Other partners: School of Informatics, Edinburgh University; Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh

• Abstract: STAC is a five year interdisciplinary project that aims to develop a new, formal and robust model of conversation, drawing from ideas in linguistics, philosophy, computer science and economics. The project brings a state of the art, linguistic theory of discourse interpretation together with a sophisticated view of agent interaction and strategic decision making, taking advantage of work on game theory.

In addition, Magnet , in collaboration with Sequel , is part of the inria Lille - Nord Europe site for the European Network of Excellence in Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning (PASCAL2).