11.2723, Jobs: Speech Recog at U of Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Subject: 11.2723, Jobs: Speech Recog at U of Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Date:  Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:20:03 +0100
From:  Helmer Strik <strik at let.kun.nl>
Subject:  Speech Recog: Research at U of Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Date:  Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:20:03 +0100
From:  Helmer Strik <strik at let.kun.nl>
Subject:  Speech Recog: Research at U of Nijmegen, Netherlands


VACANCY AT THE DEPT. OF LANGUAGE & SPEECH, UNIV. OF NIJMEGEN

The Dept. of Language & Speech offers a two-year position for research
on ASR within the European project MUMIS.

* Project title
  MUMIS: Multimedia Indexing and Searching Environment

* Project description
  MUMIS will develop base technology, demonstrated within a laboratory
prototype, to support automated multimedia indexing and to facilitate
search and retrieval from multimedia databases in specific domains.
The project will demonstrate that innovative technology components can
operate on multilingual, multisource, and multimodal information and
create a meaningful and queryable database with video content from the
soccer domain.

* Data of the MUMIS project
  Starting date : 1 July 2000
  Duration : 30 months

The candidate should (preferably) start as soon as possible.
The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic
speech recognition (ASR) software for extracting text elements from
audio files and video soundtracks; for Dutch, English and German.

* Required skills:
  - experience in ASR technology
  - ability to work as part of a team

* Desired skills:
  - Perl and UNIX
  - MA Speech Science or Computer Science

Additional information on this vacancy and MUMIS can be found at
http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/MUMIS

Additional information on the research activities carried out at
the Dept. of Language & Speech can be found at http://lands.let.kun.nl/

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Information/Application:

Interested parties who (at least partially) fulfill the qualifications
stated above should send the following information (preferably by
e-mail) before 3 Jan. 2001:

   * name and affiliation,
   * a short paragraph describing your qualifications
   * list of publications and prior work
   * contact details of references
   * pointers to web sites or other relevant resources

to

Prof.dr. L. Boves
Boves at let.kun.nl
Tel. +31-24-3612902
http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/boves.en.html

or

Dr. H. Strik
Strik at let.kun.nl
Tel. +31-24-3616104
http://zap.to/helmer

Postal address:
A2RT, Dept. of Language and Speech,
University of Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9103,
6500 HD   Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.

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