11.2464, Jobs: Researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Tech

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Subject: 11.2464, Jobs: Researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Tech

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Date:  13 Nov 2000 09:46:22 -0000
From:  Vincenzo Pallotta <Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch>
Subject:  NLP: Junior & Senior Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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Date:  13 Nov 2000 09:46:22 -0000
From:  Vincenzo Pallotta <Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch>
Subject:  NLP: Junior & Senior Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology


Rank of Job: Junior and Senior
Areas Required: Researcher
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Department: Computer Science
State or Province: VD
Country: Switzerland
Final Date of Application: 31.12.2000
Contact: Vincenzo Pallotta Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch

Address for Applications:
DI LITH EPFL,
IN F  Ecublens
Lausanne
VD 1015
Switzerland


The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is
looking for its research laboratory in Theoretical Computer Science
(LITH) at the Computer Science Department (DI) for:

                         JUNIOR and SENIOR RESEARCHERS

in the following domains:

- natural language processing
- analysis, indexing and querying of multimedia documents
- dialogue and human-computer interaction
- structured document modelling


Essential requirements is a computer science degree (M.Sc. or Ph.D.)

Candidates must speak English. Knowledge of French or desire to learn
French would be a welcome extra.

The ideal candidate would be one who has past experience in one or
more of the following subject and an enthusiasm for developing and
exploiting new approaches to problem solving:

    * Natural Language Engineering:
        Advanced techniques and programming languages
        for Natural Language Processing
        (Logic Programming, Constraint programming,
         Agent oriented programming, Java, Perl)

    * Multimodal Interfaces
        Dialogue Management
        User modelling

    * Video and Image analysis and 3D object description

    * Multimedia documents:
        hypertexts
        XML technology

The position will offer flexibility in the choice of research topics
within the context of ongoing projects at the laboratory.

Initial appointment to these positions will be for the period of a
year with the potential of renewal for a second year.

Starting date: as soon as possible

Salary will be compatible with departmental rates for graduate and
postdoctoral research fellows and can be at 100% or 50%.

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