UPDATE: LONDON ENGLAND!!! Corpora: 9 Scientist Jobs

[David Horowitz]

 ALERT:  London, England - Scientist Jobs!!!  

4 Senior or Staff Scientists in Language Modelling

5 Senior or Staff Scientists in Adaptive Language Modelling

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Work on a large international project hosted at Vox Generation Ltd.  Vox
is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full
mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems.  In this role, you
will research and innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical
Language Modelling for training conversational dialogue systems.  This
project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the development
of new language modelling techniques.

 

The Adaptive Dialogue Management will fuse multi-modal input with
conversational speech.  The ADM will model the user dependent behaviour
of preferred interaction modes, as will the language model.

 

We seek an individual with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Physical
Sciences or Engineering/Mathematics.  Quantitative Computational
Linguists with experience in statistical language modelling or
statistical language processing sought.  Requirements include: excellent
programming skills in Perl.  Preferable skills in Java or C++.
Analytical background in mathematics or hard sciences preferred at
Bachelor's level.  Strong grades on A levels.

 

Contact:

David Horowitz

Chief Scientist

 <mailto:dhorowitz at voxgeneration.com> dhorowitz at voxgeneration.com

 <http://www.voxgeneration.com/> www.voxgeneration.com

 

  

Senior or Staff Scientists in Linguistics for TTS

 

Work on a large international project hosted at Vox Generation Ltd.  Vox
is building a scientific team of 18 individuals to focus on full
mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems.  In this role, you
will research and innovate new techniques in Unified Hierarchical
Language Modelling for training conversational dialogue systems.  This
project is partnered with SpeechWorks International on the development
of new language modelling techniques.

 

You should have a Ph.D. or pending Ph.D. in acoustic phonetics.
Desirable, training and acoustic mark-up for creating TTS vocabularies.
A Portuguese and Swedish synthesizer is being built.  Proficiency in
either of these languages required.  You should understand how to
interpret a spectrogram.

 

Contact:

David Horowitz

Chief Scientist

 <mailto:dhorowitz at voxgeneration.com> dhorowitz at voxgeneration.com

 <http://www.voxgeneration.com/> www.voxgeneration.com

 The deadline for hires is June 1, 2002

 

 



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