27.2208, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Technology: Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh

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Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 13:30:22
From: Simon King [Simon.King at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Technology: Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 
University or Organization: University of Edinburgh 
Department: Linguistics and English Language
Job Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk
Job Title: Lecturer in Speech Technology
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Technology


Description:

Lecturer in Speech Technology

The University of Edinburgh
Vacancy reference: 036249

We invite applications from candidates wishing to undertake original research
in an area of speech technology relevant to the Centre for Speech Technology
Research (CSTR), offer advanced level courses in this area, contribute to our
thriving Masters programme in Speech & Language Processing, and supervise and
recruit PhD students. 

Founded in 1984, The Centre for Speech Technology Research is concerned with
research in all areas of speech technology including speech recognition,
speech synthesis, speech signal processing, information access, multimodal
interfaces and dialogue systems. We have many collaborations with the wider
community of researchers in speech science, language, cognition and machine
learning for which Edinburgh is renowned. CSTR has a number of successful
spinouts in speech recognition, speech synthesis and facial animation. 

This position is offered by the Department of Linguistics and English
Language. The post holder will be physically located in CSTR, which is a joint
research centre linking Linguistics with the School of Informatics.

This Lecturer position (comparable to Assistant Professor) is "open ended":
the UK academic system is not based on tenure. This position offers the
prospect of eventually applying for promotion (subject to performance) to
Reader (similar to Associate Professor) and from there to Full Professor.

We are looking for candidates with

- Extensive experience of original research in an area of speech technology
relevant to CSTR
- A strong track record of first author and/or collaborative publications
- Teaching experience -and/or- transferable skills gained from working in
industry
- Ability to communicate highly technical material to a diverse audience of
students

This is a rare opportunity to join our well-established, highly-regarded and
collaborative group, and offers excellent opportunities to collaborate with
one of the world's largest and best groupings of researchers across
linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning, robotics, vision,
and many other fields.

For the full specification, and to apply, please see the application website
below.

Closing date : 10 June 2016

Informal enquiries may be addressed to

Prof. Simon King
Director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research
(email address below)



Application Deadline: 10-Jun-2016 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=036249 
Contact Information:
	Professor Simon King 
	Email: Simon.King at ed.ac.uk 


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