29.2547, Jobs: Irish; Portuguese; Romanian; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doctoral Researcher, Madeira-ITI

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Subject: 29.2547, Jobs: Irish; Portuguese; Romanian; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doctoral Researcher, Madeira-ITI

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:07:51
From:  M-ITI [admin at m-iti.org]
Subject: Irish; Portuguese; Romanian; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doctoral Researcher, Madeira-ITI, Madeira, Portugal

 
University or Organization: Madeira-ITI 
Job Location: Madeira, Portugal 
Web Address: https://www.m-iti.org
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Audio/Voice User interfaces
Job Rank: Post Doc; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Irish (gle)
                      Portuguese (por) 
                      Romanian (ron) 

Description:

The Grassroots Radio team, led by the Madeira Interactive Technologies
Institute (Madeira-ITI), seeks an experienced researcher with a background in
computational linguistics, speech processing, network and/or information
systems, software engineering, data science, or similar.  You will be part of
a team that is creating high-quality, open-source TTS voices, and performing
quality control measures via an online crowd-building platform, among other
development initiatives. You will also have the opportunity to produce
original collaborative research and joint publications with other members of
the network, as well as being afforded generous funding for travel to partner
sites, and for attending conferences and workshops. While the emphasis of this
work is on speech technology, a candidate with strong general technical skills
would be able to learn many of the domain-specific approaches on the job.

We are currently looking to expand our team to enhance station platforms with
localized text-to-speech (TTS) voices for the target regions, enabling
community-owned stations to transform data (online weather RSS feeds,
municipal Facebook events, local buy and sell ads, etc.) into media, along
with tasks that support the development of community-oriented programming
applications for contributing and managing content. 

Brief description of the work plan: With the support of other members of the
team, you will be responsible for: using web extraction techniques to scrape
data from the web; running scripts in Festival, and other preparatory actions
essential in the building of TTS voices; casting and recording voice talent;
using Idlak tools to build DNN acoustic models; contributing to the
development of an online crowd-building platform for evaluating TTS output and
analyzing errors; helping to develop new ICT resources in cooperation with the
project’s community actions/participatory design effort; and communicating and
reporting within and outside the project. 

For full details go to https://www.m-iti.org/jobs

Legislation and regulations:  The fellowships are directed to applicants under
the law nº40/2004 of August 18th (Research Grant Holder Statute) and the
current conditions established on the FCT regulations
http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT.pdf.

Work place and Fellowship duration: The work will be conducted at Madeira-ITI,
in Funchal, Portugal. The successful candidate is expected to join Madeira-ITI
by 5 August 2018 (or as soon thereafter as possible). The initial contract
will be for a period of 12 months, for potential renewable up to a maximum of
24 months, or until the end of the project if fewer than 24 months remain
before the official project deadline.

Monthly stipend: The monthly stipend will be €1495/month, tax free, according
to the amounts established by Portugal’s National Science and Technology
Foundation, the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) at
https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.phtml.en. The social security is paid
by the hiring entity.

Candidacy term and applications form:  Applications will be open from 15 June
to 4 July.
Applications should be sent by email to the application email below with the
reference  “GW/780890/2018-4” 

Applications should be in English and must include: 
- A motivation letter, including a cogent argument describing relevant aspects
of your career trajectory, and how your knowledge and skill set are well
suited to the position
- A full CV, including your name, address, phone number, e-mail, previous and
present employment, and academic background 
- The names of two professional references (e-mail addresses and phone
numbers)



Application Deadline: 04-Jul-2018 
	  
Email Address for Applications: hr at m-iti.org 
Contact Information:
	Sadia Hussain 
	Email: sadia.hussain at m-iti.org 


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