[Corpora-List] Job positions: Scientific programmer and post-doctoral researcher

[Djoerd Hiemstra]

Scientific programmer and post-doctoral positions:

*Search Technology and Speech Technology at the University of Twente*

For the groups Human Media Interaction and Databases of the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, we are looking
for a scientific programmer and a post-doc researcher who are interested
to participate in the development and consolidation of the speech &
search tandem developed at the University of Twente in MultimediaN: The
SHoUT speech recognition toolkit and the PF/Tijah text search system.

*Position 1: Speech Technology* (vacancy number 08/190)

SHoUT is an open source speech recognition toolkit developed at the
University of Twente. SHoUT is a Dutch acronym for: "Spraak Herkennings
Onderzoek Universiteit Twente", or in English: "Speech Recognition
Research at the University of Twente". SHoUT is used to aid research on
large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, including research into
the application of statistical language models, audio segmentation and
classification, speaker diarization and machine learning hyper parameter
estimation for speech recognition.

*Position 2: Search Engine Technology* (vacancy number 08/191)

PF/Tijah (Pathfinder/Tijah, pronounce as "Pee Ef Teeja") is a flexible
open source text search system developed at the University of Twente in
cooperation with CWI Amsterdam and TU München. The system is integrated
in the Pathfinder XQuery compiler and can be downloaded as part of the
MonetDB/XQuery database system. PF/Tijah is used to aid research in
information retrieval at the University of Twente, including the
application of language models to search, entity retrieva, and
implementation of the W3C candidate recommendation XQuery Full-Text.

*Requirements*

 * Candidates should have a background in one or more of the following
   areas: information retrieval, speech recognition, computational
   linguistics, databases or human computer interaction, demonstrated
   by a degree in e.g. computer science.
 * Good programming and scripting skills in a Linux/Unix environment.
 * Good English speaking and writing skills.

*Conditions of employment*

We offer two full-time positions (38 hours a week). Duration of the
contract: one year. The salary scale, depending on your experience,
extends to a maximum of € 3.678,00 gross per month (in accordance
with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities), based on
the job profile Researcher Level 4. After a year, possibilities to
extend the contract will be investigated.

*Application procedure*

Applications (in English or Dutch) should be sent to:
  Mw. I.C. den Hamer
  Database Group
  Faculty of EEMCS, University of Twente
  P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
  Phone: +31 53 489 3690
  Email: (I.C.denHamer-mulder at ewi.utwente.nl)

Make sure to include the following:
 * vacancy number
 * a letter of application
 * a curriculum vitae
 * a copy of your diploma together with a list of grades
 *  names and email addresses of two referents

Deadline: August 1, 2008

For more information on Human Media Interaction, the Database Group
and on-going projects, see: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/ and
http://db.cs.utwente.nl/ or contact Roeland Ordelman
(ordelman at ewi.utwente.nl) or Djoerd Hiemstra (hiemstra at cs.utwente.nl).

For more information:

http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/vacatures_externe_werving/Externe%20vacatures%20WP/08-190-191.eng.doc



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