<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div><span>Dear Colleagues, </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; ">the following job announcement may be of interest</div><div style="background-color: transparent; ">(please circulate):</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; "><div style="margin: 0cm 3.75pt 3.75pt 0cm; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt; vertical-align: top; "><div style="margin: 0cm 3.75pt 3.75pt 0cm; line-height: 12pt; vertical-align: top; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; ">For the needs of the European Research & Development
project <b>POETICON++</b> ("<i>Robots need Language: A computational mechanism for generalisation and generation of new behaviours in robots</i>",<span class="yiv1262633198apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.poeticon.eu/" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: rgb(42, 114, 168); ">www.poeticon.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; ">), the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ilsp.gr/" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline: 0px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_0" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">www.ilsp.gr</span></a>), Athena Research Center, announces <b>three research and development </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">posts</span></b><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size: 11pt; "> which are tenable from<span class="yshortcuts ycalshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_1" data-action="calevent" mid="2_0_0_2_3110179_ABm3iGIAAKGHUJuPOAh64mvDDII" fid="Sent" title="Add an event at this date" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">January 2013</span>, with a fixed-term contract, as follows</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; ">:<span style="font-family: Tahoma; "></span></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0cm; "><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; ">i)<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; ">Position 1: </span><i style="line-height: 12pt;
background-color: transparent; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Similarity Metrics and Embodied Multiword Analysis (3-year contract)</span></i></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">The position involves (a) the development of a reasoning mechanism for cognitive robotics applications that will make use of similarity-based categorisation principles and metrics, and (b) the development of an algorithm for the automatic analysis of multiword terms and composite words in terms of their reference to objects, actions and perceptual features.</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; background-color: transparent; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "><br></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;
">ii) Position 2: </span><i style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Ontology Alignment (3-year contract)</span></i><br></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">The position involves (a) the development of an algorithm for the alignment of ontologies and (b) the development of a reasoning mechanism that will make use of verbally expressed perceptual and motoric features of objects and human actions respectively.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></i></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; ">iii) Position 3: <i>Gesture-Speech Interaction</i> <span style="font-style: italic; ">Analysis (1-year contract)</span></span></div><div
class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">The position involves (a) annotation of a multimodal and multisensory corpus in terms of different gesture types and their semantic relations to the corresponding speech and (b) computational analysis of the interaction patterns between gesture and speech.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></i></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">The applicants for these positions should demonstrate evidence of the following:</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">o<span style="font-size: 7pt;
line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">A PhD or Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence (or related subject), or equivalent research experience</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">o<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Strong programming skills, in two or more of the following (C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Prolog)</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">o<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';
"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Good command of the English language</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 35.7pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">o<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Experience in system development and academic writing skills</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">For position (i), applicants should also demonstrate evidence of:</span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0cm 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;
">Experience in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</span></li></ul><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">For position (ii), applicants should also demonstrate evidence of:</span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0cm 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Experience in Statistical Language Processing</span></li></ul><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">For position (iii), applicants should also demonstrate evidence of:</span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin: 0cm 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size: 11pt; ">Experience in the analysis and modelling of Verbal and Non-Verbal communication</span></li></ul><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; ">For all three positions, research experience in any of the following areas will be considered a plus:</span><br></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">natural language processing</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">, <i>multimedia processing</i>, <i>cognitive robotics</i></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></b></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Informal enquiries</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> may be directed to <b>Dr
Katerina Pastra</b> (<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kpastra@ilsp.gr" target="_blank" href="mailto:kpastra@ilsp.gr" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline: 0px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_2" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">kpastra@ilsp.gr</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kpastra@csri.gr" target="_blank" href="mailto:kpastra@csri.gr" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline: 0px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_3" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">kpastra@csri.gr</span></a>)</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">How to apply:</span></b></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">To apply please send the following documents through standard mail to:</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Att. Ms Vaso Panagopoulou</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Institute for Language and Speech Processing,</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Athena</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> Research Center</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Artemidos 6 and
Epidavrou</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">15125, Athens , Greece</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "><br></span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; background-color: transparent; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">a)<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Cover letter explaining your interest in, and suitability for one of the advertised posts</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">b)<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';
"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Detailed curriculum vitae</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">c)<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Contact details of two references</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">d)<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Copies of official certificates/degrees etc. as well as any other documentation that you consider supportive of your application.</span></div><div class="yiv1262633198MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;
"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></i><i style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; ">Application deadline</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; ">: <b><span class="yshortcuts ycalshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_4" data-action="calevent" mid="2_0_0_2_3110179_ABm3iGIAAKGHUJuPOAh64mvDDII" fid="Sent" title="Add an event at this date" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">26 November 2012</span> </b>(for position 3),<b> <span class="yshortcuts ycalshortcuts" id="lw_1352372978_5" data-action="calevent" mid="2_0_0_2_3110179_ABm3iGIAAKGHUJuPOAh64mvDDII" fid="Sent" title="Add an event at this date" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136); ">28 November 2012</span> </b>(for positions 1 and 2)</span></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new
york', times, serif; "></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "> <span style="font-size: 12pt; "> </span></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="color:rgb(139, 139, 139);">==================================================</span><br><span style="color:rgb(115, 115, 115);">Katerina Pastra, PhD</span><br><span style="color:rgb(115, 115, 115);">Director - Cognitive Systems Research Institute &</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="color:rgb(115, 115, 115);">Senior Researcher - Institute for Language and Speech Processing<br>7 Makedonomachou
Prantouna Street, </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); "><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="color:rgb(115, 115, 115);">11525, Athens, Greece<br>tel. +30 211 0124543 (301)<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/kpastra.html">www.csri.gr/index.php/en/staff/homepages/kpastra.html</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="color:rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span>Visit: <a
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