Corpora: spoken/multimodal dialogue jobs at FTW Vienna

From: Gregor Erbach (erbach@ftw.at)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 11:49:53 MET DST

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    Researcher and Postdoc Positions
    Project B2 "speech & more"

    The ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Telecommunications
    Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative research center involving
    3 institutes of the Vienna University of Technology, 14
    telecommunications
    companies, and the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More
    information
    can be found at http://www.ftw.at/.

    Task Description

    Conduct advanced research and development in the area of spoken and
    multimodal
    dialog systems, including combining speech dialog with mobile multimedia
    applications (UMTS), pronunciation modeling, and noise cancellation. The
    positions provide the opportunity to work together with leading
    companies in the
    fields of telecommunications and speech technology. The positions will
    become
    available between now and the beginning of next year.

    Required Qualifications

    * Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal dialog
    systems
    * Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines (i.e.,
    computer
      science, communications, phonetics or computational linguistics)
    * Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication skills

    Additional Qualifications

    A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be
    preferred:

    * Knowledge of internet protocols, XML, VoiceXML
    * Java / C++ experience
    * Experience in usability engineering and usability testing
    * Experience with spoken language corpora
    * Software engineering and project management skills
    * Experience working in collaborative industry/academia projects
    * Knowledge of German

    Applications and inquiries should be directed to

    Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
    Dr. Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), kommenda@ftw.at
    or Dr. Gregor Erbach (Project Manager), erbach@ftw.at

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Dr. Gregor Erbach gregor.erbach@ftw.at
    Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien FTW Tel. +43/699-10389005
    (Vienna Telecommunications Research Centre) Fax: +43/1/5052830-99
    Maderstrasse 1/9, A-1040 Wien, Austria http://speech.ftw.at/~gor



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