[Corpora-List] Ph.D. Research Fellowships in Speech and Language Processing, University of Trento, Italy

[Sebastian Varges]

POSITION: Ph.D. Research Fellowships

TOPIC AREAS:  Speech Recognition, Spoken Language Understanding,
              Dialogue Modeling and Machine Learning

LOCATION: The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interfaces
          Research Lab at University of Trento (Italy)

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:   June 1, 2007

START DATE:   November 1, 2007

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
    The Ph.D. researchers should have a background (Laurea, MA or
    equivalent) in speech/text processing, machine learning,
    computational linguistics, computer science or cognitive science,
    and strong academic records. The Ph.D. positions are funded for 3
    years.  The Ph.D. students will be able to participate in the
    international Ph.D. program of the ICT Department
    (http://ict.unitn.it/). The applicants should be fluent in
    English.  The Italian language competence is optional and
    applicants are encouraged to acquire this skill during their
    Ph.D. studies. The applicants should have good programming skills
    in conventional programming languages (C++/Java//Perl/Python) and
    experience in rule-based, logic or functional programming.

THE RESEARCH LAB:
    The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface (AMI2) research
    lab pursues excellence research in next-generation interfaces for
    human-machine and human-human communication. The Ph.D.  research
    fellowships are 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 of 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 general research challenge of the project is to
    investigate innovative multimodal interfaces that will be
    adaptive, affective, usable and knowledgeable.

    The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface (AMI2) research lab
    pursues excellence research in next-generation interfaces for
    human-machine and human-human communication. The AMI2 lab has a
    state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and collaborations with
    premiere international research centers and industry research labs.


    About University of Trento and Information and Communication
    Technology Department:

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

    - The DIT Department 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.


CONTACT INFORMATION:
    The University of Trento is an equal opportunity
    employer. Interested applicants should submit their CV along with
    their statement of research interest and reference letters.  It is
    recommended to contact us (Email: amii at dit.unitn.it) before
    submitting a formal application:

    Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi         Dr. Sebastian Varges
    http://www.dit.unitn.it/~riccardi     http://www.dit.unitn.it/~varges