[Corpora-List] Spoken/Multimodal Dialog Researchers Positions

[Marco Baroni]

I receive and forward from a colleague in Trento.


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The Adaptive Multimodal Interface Research Lab at University of Trento
(Italy) has openings in the following areas:


    User Interface                    (Junior/Senior Researcher)

    Multimodal/Spoken Dialog          (Junior/Senior Researcher)


The Adaptive Multimodal Interface research lab pursues excellence research
in next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human
communication.

The research positions will be funded by the prestigious Marie Curie
Excellence grant awarded by the European Commission for cutting edge and
interdisciplinary research.

There have been many advances in the field speech recognition and
text-to-speech synthesis in the last decade. However, human-machine
conversational system are still severely limited in the ability to
understand and interact. The research challenge of the project is to
investigate innovative multimodal interfaces that will be adaptive,
affective, usable and knowledgeable.

The AMI lab has a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and
collaborations with premiere international research centers and industry
research labs.

The candidates should have a PhD degree either in computer science,
cognitive science or related disciplines. They will have an established
international research track record in their field of expertise and
leadership skills. Deadline for application submission is November 1,
2006.

The applicants should be fluent in English. The Italian language
competence is optional and applicants are encouraged to acquire this skill
on the job. The applicants should have good programming skills in most of
the following C++/Java/JavaScript/Perl/Python.

Positions are funded from a minimum of two to four years. Salaries are
competitive and depending on qualifications. Relocation package might be
available depending on eligibility.

University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer. Interested
applicants should send their CV along with their statement of research
interest and three reference letters to:

    Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

    Email: riccardi at dit.unitn.it

    http://www.dit.unitn.it/~riccardi




About University of Trento and Information and Communication Technology
Department


The University of Trento is constantly ranked as premiere Italian graduate
university institution (see www.dit.unitn.it).


About DIT Department

DIT has a strong focus on interdisciplinarity with professors from
different faculties of the University (Physical Science, Electrical
Engineering, Economics, Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer
Science) with international background.

DIT aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the
various research areas in order to develop innovative methods and
technologies, applications and advanced services.

English is the official language.





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Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi

Department of Information and Communication Technology

University of Trento

Room D11, via Sommarive 14

38050 Povo di Trento, Italy

tel  : +39-0461 882087

       +39-0461 883994

email: riccardi at dit.unitn.it