<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The newly established IBM Language and Knowledge Center, Trento , Italy<br><br>has a postdoc position in the following area:<br><strong><br><br>-Natural Language Dialog </strong><br><br><br>The postdoc scholar will be part of a research project aiming at designing machines</font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">that interact with humans and support them in complex and large scale decision making tasks.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The team includes researchers from IBM and the <a href="http://hlt.trentorise.eu/" mce_href="http://hlt.trentorise.eu/" style="color: rgb(27, 87, 177); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; ">TrentoRise Human Language Technology Center</a><br><br>founded by the University of Trento and FBK. Candidates with strong research background in</font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">at least one of the following:</font></p><p class="ModulovuotoA" mce_style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><b><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-<span mce_style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></span><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Conversational Dialogue Systems</span></b></font></p><p class="ModulovuotoA" mce_style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><b><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; 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font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-<span mce_style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></span><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Natural Language Understanding</span></b></font></p><p class="ModulovuotoA" mce_style="margin-left: 18.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><b><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; 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font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-<span mce_style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></span><span mce_style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Question Answering Systems</span></b></font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">are invited to apply.</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The postdoc position application website</font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="http://www.trentorise.eu/call-for-participation/bando-di-selezione-l-call-positions">http://www.trentorise.eu/call-for-participation/bando-di-selezione-l-call-positions</a></font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">If you would like to enquiry about the position send an email along with the CV to</font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="undefined/" mce_href="undefined/" style="color: rgb(27, 87, 177); text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; ">Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi</a><br><a href="mailto:sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it">sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it</a></font></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Deadline: February 5, 2013</font></p><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">-----<br>Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi<br>Head of Signals and Interactive Systems Lab<br>Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science<br>University of Trento <br>Room D5, via Sommarive 14<br>38050 Povo di Trento, Italy<br>tel : +39-0461 883175</font></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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