[Corpora-List] PhD Positions in Human Language Technologies at FBK-irst (Trento - Italy)

[Manuela Speranza]

[apologies for multiple postings]

The Human Language Technologies research unit of Fondazione Bruno 
Kessler (Italy) offers, in collaboration with the University of Trento 
(Italy), grants for doctoral students in the following research areas:

- 1 fellowship in Automatic Speech Recognition, (contact: Diego Giuliani 
giuliani at fbk.eu)
- 1 fellowship in Spoken and Written Language Translation (contact: 
Marcello Federico federico at fbk.eu)
- 2 fellowships in Content Processing (contact: Bernardo Magnini 
magnini at fbk.eu)

Candidates should meet the following requirements:

- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics or 
Mathematics.
- Studies should have been completed efficiently, recently and with an 
above of average mark.
- Advanced knowledge in either Computational Linguistics, Machine 
Learning, Statistics, Patter Recognition, or Speech Recognition.
- Programming experience in C/C++ and/or Java, Python, Perl in the Unix 
environment.
- Good English knowledge.

Doctorate fellowships, which are sponsored by FBK, will be formally 
pursued at the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of 
Trento. The program starts in November 2008, has a minimum length of 
three years and includes attendance of courses during the first two 
years, while the third is fully dedicated to research work. Detailed 
information about the School and the grants assigned to students can be 
found at http://ict.unitn.it <http://ict.unitn.it/>.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications through 
the website of the ICT School and to get in touch with the above given 
contact points to obtain more information about the proposed research 
topics.
Information about research activities at FBK and opportunities of 
pre-enrollment internships can be found at http://hlt.fbk.eu 
<http://hlt.fbk.eu/>.

Closing date for applications: May 2008

[Please feel free to circulate]

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