27.4345, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Processing; Spoken Language Understanding: Chair of Department / Full Professor, University of Stuttgart

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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:19:50
From: Jonas Kuhn [berufung-digiphon at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Processing; Spoken Language Understanding: Chair of Department / Full Professor, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

 
University or Organization: University of Stuttgart 
Department: Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS)
Job Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Job Title: Chair of "Digital Phonetics"
Job Rank: Chair of Department; Full Professor

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Speech Processing, Spoken Language Understanding


Description:

W3 Chair in "Digital Phonetics"

University of Stuttgart
Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Institute for Natural Language Processing  
At the earliest opportunity

The Chair's research and teaching focuses on the development of theoretically
founded methods for Speech Processing/Spoken Language Processing pertinent for
the digitization of language processes and data collections. It should form an
integral part of the interdisciplinary research area located between
Linguistics, Speech Processing/Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer
Interaction and Visual Analytics. The Chair position includes leadership of a
research group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS).  

In addition to foundational research in Automatic Speech Recognition and
Phonetics, the research profile of the chair should cover application-related
basic research in several of the following areas:

- Development of machine learning methods for speech processing, with
systematic adaptation to application scenarios (in particular for scenarios
with limited availability of data, such as non-native and dialectical
utterances, resource-poor languages, special domains, etc.)

- Theoretically motivated modeling of prosody (intonation, phrasing, voice
quality, etc.) in its linguistic functions (e. g., information focus) and
paralinguistic functions (e. g., emotions)

- Spoken Language Understanding, i.e., capturing the content and contextually
determined communicative functions of spoken utterances

- Experiment and simulation as methods of language research

- Speech and language processing in multimodal and embedded interactive
scenarios

- Methodologies for the critically reflected exploration of speech data in
large heterogeneous data collections (e. g., social media)

We are looking for an excellent researcher of international standing. The
Chair's responsibilities include teaching in the areas of Phonetics, Phonology
and Speech Processing within the study programs offered by the department of
Computer Science, in particular the German language B.Sc. program in
Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (Natural Language Processing) and the
English-language M.Sc. program in Computational Linguistics. We expect
experience in the acquisition of third-party funding and willingness to
participate in collaborative research projects.

The requirements for employment listed in § 47 and § 50 Baden- Württemberg
university law apply.

Applications should preferably be in electronic form and include the usual
documents (vita; copies of certificates; list of publications, taught courses
and past grant acquisition; statement of research interests) and three
relevant publications. Please send them by December 1st, 2016 to the vice
chair of the search committee: Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn (see mailing and e-mail
addresses for application below).

The University of Stuttgart has established a Dual Career Program to offer
assistance to partners of those moving to Stuttgart. For more information,
please visit the website http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/dual-career/



Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2016 
Mailing Address for Applications:
	Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn 
	Universität Stuttgart 
	Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung 
	Pfaffenwaldring 5b 
	Stuttgart 70569 
	Germany  
Email Address for Applications: berufung-digiphon at ims.uni-stuttgart.de 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Dr. Jonas Kuhn 
	Email: berufung-digiphon at ims.uni-stuttgart.de 


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