15 September: fyi -- postdoc, Aachen
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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Language Modeling
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Job Description:
Together with our interdisciplinary research team you will work on our project
"Language Modeling in Automatic Speech Recognition for use in
multi-lingual dictation products and internet applications".
Description of Research Group:
Philips is active in speech recognition and speech understanding,
both in research and business. The speech recognition group is a
department of our research organization of 400 employees in
Aachen. It has identified projects on large vocabulary continuous
speech recognition for several European languages (speech to text),
small vocabulary (command and control), and natural dialogue systems.
We have available speech databases (basic and annotated data)
and lexical databases (basic and annotated). Computer equipment
consists of workstations under UNIX.
International links exist via ARPA benchmarking evaluations in
speech recognition. There are European collaborations in both Speech
and Language with groups in France, UK, Italy, and The Netherlands.
National research links are supported by Vermobil, SmartKom and MoTiv
participation. There are close local research links to the Aachen
Technical University. Internally, we are linked to several business
units marketing speech recognition, among them Philips Speech Processing.
Job Requirements:
* Post-Doctoral Researcher
* University Degree in Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or
Computer Science
* Experience in probability theory, statistical pattern
recognition, algorithm design and efficiency
* Excellent programming skills, in particular C/C++ under UNIX
Personal Qualifications:
* Fluent in English
* Interest in application-oriented research
Other important information:
We offer this EU-sponsored Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowship
(1 - 2 years contract) in our Research Labs in Aachen, Germany.
Details about these fellowships such as terms and conditions,
approx. salary are available at:
http://improving-mcf.sti.jrc.it/project/
Please note that one of the EU-prerequisites is that you must be
non-German citizen of an EU- or EU-associated state.
Please send us a full hardcopy or electronic application, including:
* detailed CV with photo
* relevant job experience (academic/ business)
* list of publications
* earliest possible starting date
Christiane Benicke
Philips Research Laboratories
Human Resources Department
Weisshausstr. 2
D-52066 Aachen
Germany
Tel. +49/241/6003-477
Fax +49/241/6003-611
christiane.benicke@philips.com
For further information about the project contact:
Dr. Dietrich Klakow
Cluster manager
Weisshausstr. 2
D-52066 Aachen
Germany
Tel. +49/241/6003-477
Fax +49/241/6003-611
dietrich.klakow@philips.com
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