[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