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Date: 07 Feb 2011
From: Hanady Mansour M I Ahmed <hanadyma at qu.edu.qa>
Subject: Arabic speech recognition post-doc, Qatar/Manchester

Job Rank: Post-doc , Research posts and research studentships, Arabic Speech Recognition, University of Qatar and University of Manchester
 
Specialty Areas: Speech recognition, Natural Language and Speech Processing
Position Open: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Assistant and Ph.D student.
Research Title: Arabic speech recognition and understanding: a hybrid approach
Institution: Qatar University and Manchester university
Minimum Degree Requirement for Post doc Fellow: Ph.D.
Minimum Degree Requirement for Research. Ass: MA.
Starting: April,  2011
For more information: D:\Documents and Settings\hanadyma\My Documents\Qataruniversity09-010\GRANTS09-010\NPRP2010\WebPage\index.htm
Description: Applications are invited for two research posts (one post-doc, one research assistant) at the University of Qatar and one PhD studentship at the University of Manchester taking part in a project on Arabic Speech Recognition funded by the Qatar National Research Fund.  The aim of the project is to develop a system for understanding spoken Arabic, by using standard speech recognition techniques to produce an approximate transcription of the input speech and then refining this approximate transcription to a full understanding by applying a range of linguistic techniques. The speech recognition will be carried out using some externally supplied speech recognition toolkit ( HTK). The linguistic analysis will be carried out using tools developed by the principle investigators (Dr. Hanady Ahmed and Prof. Allan Ramsay).
 
The  post doc position (2 years) at Qatar is for an experienced researcher. The successful candidate must have a PhD in Arabic speech recognition and MUST have experience with speech recognition tools and (HTK) recognizer. The person taking up this position will be responsible for managing the integration of the linguistic analysis software and the speech recognition tools, as well playing a role in the design of the phonology/phonetics interface. Candidate should have research publications in speech recognition or related field, and should have programming, mathematical, and linguistic skills sufficient to conduct independent research in these areas.
The research assistant position (3 years) at Qatar is for a younger researcher, and the successful candidate may register for a PhD . The successful candidate should have a background in linguistics or computer science, with a proven level of experience in natural language processing. Candidate should have programming, mathematical, and linguistic skills sufficient to conduct independent research in these areas.
 
The successful candidate for the PhD studentship (3 years) at Manchester should also have a background in linguistics or computer science, with a proven level of experience in natural language processing. The stipend for this position covers the 'home' fees for a PhD student at Manchester. Non-EU candidates would have to find the full 'non-home' fees as well as their living expenses from this stipend.
 
For fully interested, send CV, one sample publication, two recommendation letters, and cover letter by March, 1, 2011 to Dr. Hanady Ahmed (hanadyma at qu.edu.qa) Qatar university and Prof. Allan Ramsay (ramsay at cs.man.ac.uk) Manchester university.
Application Deadline: 1-March-2011   
Email Address for Applications: hanadyma at qu.edu.qa  and  ramsay at cs.man.ac.uk
Contact Information:
               Dr. Hanady Ahmed, Arabic department, Qatar university
               Email: hanadyma at qu.edu.qa

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