7.619, Jobs: Visiting Position in Phonology, Speech Technology and NLP

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-619. Thu Apr 25 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  137
 
Subject: 7.619, Jobs: Visiting Position in Phonology, Speech Technology and NLP
 
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Date:  Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:42:04 CDT
From:  wdavies at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (William Davies)
Subject:  Visiting Position in Phonology at Iowa
 
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Date:  Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:05:18 EDT
From:  habanero!rws at research.att.com (Richard Sproat)
Subject:  Job: Finite-State Methods in Speech and NLP
 
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Date:  Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:42:04 CDT
From:  wdavies at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (William Davies)
Subject:  Visiting Position in Phonology at Iowa
 
 
 
 
               VISITING POSITION IN PHONOLOGY
 
 
     The Department of Linguistics at The University of Iowa
solicits  applications  for  a  one-year visiting position in
phonology  for the  1996-97 academic year.
 
Candidates should  be able  to teach  courses  in  phonology
at  all   levels  as  well  as  introductory  phonetics  and
introductory historical linguistics.  Ph.D. preferred.
 
     Send letter  of interest,  CV, and  one sample of work,
and have three letters of reference sent to:
 
               W. D. Davies, Chair
               Department of Linguistics
               The University of Iowa
               Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
 
     Screening will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled.
 
 
 
 
                THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IS AN
       AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
 
                                    william-davies at uiowa.edu
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Date:  Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:05:18 EDT
From:  habanero!rws at research.att.com (Richard Sproat)
Subject:  Job: Finite-State Methods in Speech and NLP
 
 
Bell Laboratories is seeking to hire a highly qualified candidate with
a background in finite-state methods in natural language and speech
processing. The successful candidate will:
 
- have a strong background in algorithms for finite-state machines,
  (for example, algorithms for fast runtime composition and intersection
  of machines, and minimization techniques for transducers);
 
- have a strong interest in applying finite-state
  technology in areas related to speech and natural language, as
  well as in assisting in the construction of efficient tools for
  compiling linguistic descriptions into finite-state representations;
 
- hold a PhD in a relevant area, such as Computer Science,
  Computational Linguistics or Cognitive Science.
 
Previous work in this area by those of us at Bell Laboratories and
AT&T Research, has involved applications of finite-state models in
speech recognition and speech synthesis. The following papers give a
sense of the range of applications that have already been
investigated, and which we plan to continue investigating:
 
 Fernando Pereira, Michael Riley, and Richard Sproat. 1994.  Weighted
 rational transductions and their application to human language
 processing.  In ARPA Workshop on Human Language Technology, pages
 249--254. Advanced Research Projects Agency, March 8--11.
 
 Fernando Pereira and Michael Riley. 1996.  "Speech recognition by
 composition of weighted finite automata."  CMP-LG archive paper
 9603001. (http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/)
 
 Mehryar Mohri and Richard Sproat.  1996.  "An efficient compiler for
 weighted rewrite rules."  In 34rd Annual Meeting of the Association
 for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ. Association for
 Computational Linguistics. (Soon to be available from CMP-LG)
 
 Richard Sproat and Michael Riley.  1996a.  "Compilation of Weighted
 Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees." In 34rd Annual Meeting of the
 Association for Computational Linguistics, Morristown, NJ. Association
 for Computational Linguistics. (Soon to be available from CMP-LG)
 
 Richard Sproat. 1996b.  Multilingual text analysis for text-to-speech
 synthesis.  In Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop on Extended Finite
 State Models of Language, Budapest, Hungary. European Conference on
 Artificial Intelligence. (Soon to be available from CMP-LG)
 
(Because of the diversity of applications for this technology, it is
unclear at present whether the position will be in the Linguistics
Research Department, the Speech Synthesis Research Department, or the
Speech Recognition Research Department: however departmental
assignments have no bearing on one's collaborational possibilities.)
 
Interested candidates should send CVs along with statements of
research interests to:
 
Richard Sproat
Speech Synthesis Research Department
Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 	| tel (908) 582-5296
700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2d-451 	| fax (908) 582-7308
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA	    	| rws at bell-labs.com
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