Jobs: 3 Offers

[Philippe Blache]

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1/ From:  marc.elbeze at lia.univ-avignon.fr
   Subject: Jobs LIA: 1 Ater TALN

2/ From:  Gernot Kubin <g.kubin at ieee.org>
   Subject:  Speech Processing; Senior Researcher in Vienna

3/ From:  Johanna Moore <jmoore at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP and Discourse Analysis; Research Positions at U of Edinburgh
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1/ From:  marc.elbeze at lia.univ-avignon.fr
   Subject: Jobs LIA: 1 Ater TALN


Bonjour,

Le LIA disposera de 2 postes d'ATER en 27eme section pour la rentrée
http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/jobs/

dont un profilé en TALN
http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/jobs/ATER0274.html

Merci de le faire savoir autour de vous
--
Cordialement, Marc El-Beze.

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2/ From:  Gernot Kubin <g.kubin at ieee.org>
   Subject:  Speech Processing; Senior Researcher in Vienna


             SENIOR RESEARCHER IN SPEECH PROCESSING

                             at the

            VIENNA TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTRE
                        Vienna, Austria
         (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, FTW)


The Vienna Telecommunications Research Centre FTW (http://www.ftw.at) is
a newly established cooperative research centre involving 3 institutes
of Vienna University of Technology, 13 telecommunications companies, and
the Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf.

In the field of signal processing and transmission technology, one
project will be devoted to the collection of speech databases and
algorithm development for the integration of speech recognition into
telecom applications. The initial effort will target the creation of 2
Speechdat compliant databases of 1000 speakers of Austrian German each,
collected over a fixed and a mobile telephone network.

We are looking for a senior researcher who takes over the project
management, contributes to the specification and validation aspects of
the databases, and defines and works on research problems in the area of
application-specific algorithm and database development in close
coordination with the partner companies.

The applicant should have earned a doctorate relevant to information
technology and have at least five years of research experience beyond
the first university degree. Familiarity with (a subset of) signal
processing, speech and language technology, telecom applications, data
base systems, phonetics, and computational linguistics is expected.
Fluency in German and a strong interest into its regional variants is a
must as well as proficiency in English. The position needs to be filled
as soon as possible. Out of an initial two-year phase of the project, a
long-term activity of the research centre in this area is foreseen. The
successful applicant will be offered an indefinite employment contract
and a salary commensurate with experience. The research centre is
located in the heart of Vienna close to the University of Technology.

Applications and inquiries should be directed to

Gernot Kubin

Institute of Communications and High-Frequency Engineering
Vienna University of Technology
Gusshausstrasse 25/389, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe

Tel:    (+43-1) 58801-38958,  Fax:  (+43-1) 58801-38999
Email:  g.kubin at ieee.org
WWW:    http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/dspgroup/gkubin.html
Jingle: http://iuinfo.tuwien.ac.at/johnys-danube.au

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3/ From:  Johanna Moore <jmoore at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
   Subject:  NLP and Discourse Analysis; Research Positions at U of Edinburgh

		University of Edinburgh
		Human Communication Research Centre


2 RESEARCH POSITIONS: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING and DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

		Closing date:  1 June 1999

The Tutorial Dialogue Project is aimed at studying human tutorial
dialogues in order to inform the construction of computer-based tutors
that can participate in effective tutorial interactions with their
users.  The project is using analysis of a corpus of tutorial
dialogues, psycholinguistic experimentation, and WOZ studies to inform
the design and implementation of an intelligent dialogue-based
tutoring system.  We seek two individuals to help with development of
the dialogue manager and the generation component.


		Research Position in Natural Language Processing

The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, or Computer Science and have in interest both
in natural language processing and intelligent tutoring.  S/he will
have practical experience in developing robust language interfaces
both on the algorithmic level and on the knowledge construction level.
Programming or development expertise in Lisp, C or C++ is essential,
and experience with Perl is highly desirable.  Candidates with an
interest in discourse planning, dialogue management, and/or the
practical aspects of natural language generation are particularly
encouraged to apply.  (Please quote ref: 776267)

		Research Position in Discourse Analysis

The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics,
Linguistics, or Artificial Intelligence and have in interest both in
linguistic analysis and educational applications of technology.  S/he will
have practical experience in developing discourse tagging schemes, analysing
discourse data, and/or performing empirical analyses of human tutoring.
Should have experience with statistical analysis using Excel, SPSS, or other
statistical analysis software.  Experience with markup languages such
as XML or SGML is also desirable. (Please quote ref: 776268)

Successful candidates will be hired on the AR1A researcher scale
(15,735-23,651 pounds per annum), depending on age and experience.
The post is initially for a period of two years, starting as soon as
possible.

Additional information can be found on web site
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk and http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/overview.html
Informal enquiries may be made to Johanna Moore (J.Moore at ed.ac.uk).

Further particulars including the application procedure should be
obtained from the Personnel Department, 1 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh,
EH8 9TB.  Tel: 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering service)
http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm