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<BODY><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial> <SPANc
lass=736225214-04042002>ALERT: London, England - Scientist
Jobs!!! </SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>4 Senior or Staff Scientists in
Language Modelling</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>5 Senior or Staff Scientists in
Adaptive Language Modelling</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Work on a large international project
hosted at Vox Generation Ltd.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vox
is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full
mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this role, you will research and
innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical Language Modelling for training
conversational dialogue systems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the
development of new language modelling techniques.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Adaptive Dialogue Management will
fuse multi-modal input with conversational speech.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ADM will model the user dependent
behaviour of preferred interaction modes, as will the language model.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>We seek an individual with a Ph.D. in
Computer Science, Physical Sciences or Engineering/Mathematics.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Quantitative Computational Linguists
with experience in statistical language modelling or statistical languagep
rocessing sought.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Requirements
include: excellent programming skills in Perl.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Preferable skills in Java or C++.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Analytical background in mathematics or
hard sciences preferred at Bachelor’s level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strong grades on A levels.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contact:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Horowitz</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chief Scientist</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="mailto:dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="http://www.voxgeneration.com/"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>www.voxgeneration.com</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Senior or Staff Scientists in
Linguistics for TTS</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Work on a large international project
hosted at Vox Generation Ltd.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vox
is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full
mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this role, you will research and
innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical Language Modelling for training
conversational dialogue systems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the
development of new language modelling techniques.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>You should have a Ph.D. or pending
Ph.D. in acoustic phonetics.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Desirable, training and acoustic mark-up for creating TTS
vocabularies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Portuguese and
Swedish synthesizer is being built.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <
/SPAN>Proficiency in either of these languages required.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You should understand how to interpret a
spectrogram.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contact:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Horowitz</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chief Scientist</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="mailto:dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A href="http://www.voxgeneration.com/"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>www.voxgeneration.com</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial> <SPAN
class=736225214-04042002>The deadline for hires is June 1,
2002</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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