26 July: fyi -- document retreival, Germany
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Postdoc or Engineer position on Spoken Document Retrieval , GMD - Germany
Description
GMD (http://www.gmd.de) is the German national institute for information
technology. In the institute for media communication (http://imk.gmd.de)
research is carried out in all fields of media technology. Especially in the
group NAVIC (Network based Audio-Visual Information and Content processing)
we are working on audio and spoken document retrieval. We have an opening
for a postdoc or engineer to conduct research in this area and to develop a
German spoken document retrieval system. This system should be able to
automatically transcribe broadcast news, TV-shows and debates.
Responsibilities:
The tasks to be carried out comprise implementation of an audio information
retrieval system and the study of adaptive methods for recognition of
continuous radio and TV broadcasts. This includes investigations of robust
speech recognition, speaker and story segmentation, large vocabulary
recognition, topic detection and identification of named entities. Further,
the applicant will work in the standardization of MPEG-7 - multimedia
description interface.
Desired Qualifications:
Applicants should have a university degree (PH.D, Diploma, M.S.) in
communication engineering, computer science, physics or comparable. They
should also have knowledge of:
- programming skills: C, C++, JAVA, Perl, Sh-Programming
- speech processing: recognition, corpus-based methods, synthesis
- information retrieval, text summarization,
- XML, VoiceXML, MPEG-4/7
Salary:
The position is paid according to the official German employee pay scale
(approx. 35K - 40K Euro p.a., depending on age and marital status). Starting
date is as soon as possible.
We will accept applications until the position has been filled.
Contact:
If interested send your application to GMD - German National Research Center
for Information Technology:
Dr. Joachim Köhler
GMD.IMK
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
Phone: +49-2241-14-2900
Email: Joachim.Koehler@gmd.de
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