Jobs: 3 Offers

[Thierry Hamon]

        1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100
        From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
        Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]>

        2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200
        From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr>
        Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr>

        3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200
        From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net>
        Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com>
        X-url: http://www.valigen.com

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1/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:15:49 +0100
From: Fiona McGregor <fiona at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <l03102800b7044d2fd695@[129.215.110.138]>



University of Edinburgh
Research Programmer :  Spoken Dialogue Systems

The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS),
Division of Informatics draws on the skills and expertise of one of
the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in
Europe and has strong experience in human-machine interaction, natural
language understanding, speech processing, and XML protocols.

In this role you will join a team working on the design and
implementation of a spoken dialogue system. Much of the envisaged work
will be carried out within ICCS's Language Technology Group, which
provides a stimulating and varied research environment. You should
have experience of software engineering and distributed agent systems
and a good knowledge of C, C++ or Java. Experience with CORBA and XML
would be an advantage, as would knowledge of speech or language
engineering.

The appointment is for a fixed term of 2 years.
Salary scale, 16,775 -- 25,213 p.a.
Informal enquiries to steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Please quote ref:316245

For further pariculars and application pack visit our web site
(www.ed.ac.uk) or telephone the recruitment line on +44 (0)131 650 2511.

Closing date : 11 May 2001.

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2/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:58:13 +0200
From: Linda Bellahsene <lbellahs at etu.info.unicaen.fr>
Message-Id: <3ADEA8A5.9F26986D at etu.info.unicaen.fr>

L'unité de recherche et développement "Reconnaissance de
parole" de Datops propose à Nîmes, France, le poste suivant:

- un stage bac+5 en linguistique-informatique (6 mois)
sur le traitement de la parole. Des connaissances dans les domaines de
"perplexity", "Semantic Interpretation" sont nécessaires.
Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com
(Les candidatures doivent être envoyées exclusivement par email).

The speech recognition team of Datops R&D in Nîmes (France) invites
applications for this position :

- a 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate
student about speech recognition.

The main task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech
recognition software with acoustic and language model (Theory of
perplexity and Semantic Interpetation) for extracting text
elements from audio files and video soundtracks; for English first.
Contact : Linda Bellahsene - lbellahsene at datops.com
(send resume by email).

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3/Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:47:12 +0200
From: "Simon de Bernard" <debernard at valigen.net>
Message-Id: <007a01c0c8df$9e85b980$8901a8c0 at valigene.com>
X-url: http://www.valigen.com

IT Linguist.

ValiGen is a biotechnology company intent on becoming the premier drug
target validation company and a leading developer of innovative human
therapeutics and plants. For the development of its pathway mapping
technology, ValiGen is presently looking for an IT Linguist.

Job Description: Writing of transducers for the detection of biological
interactions from scientific literature and integration of these and other
linguistic components in a broader information management software.

Location: Paris-La-Défense, France

Education & Experience:
Degree in Linguistics/Language Technology Degree in Biology (preferred).
Good knowledge of English grammar.
Proven experience in text parsing systems (INTEX, Xelda or equivalent).
Familiarity with biology related scientific literature is preferred.

Availability: Immediate

For details on ValiGen and its technologies, please consult our web pages
at: http://www.valigen.com

To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to:
drh at valigen.net


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