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www.voxgeneration.com
Senior Language Modelling Scientist
London, U.K.
Deadline June 30

Senior Language Modelling Scientist

Work on a large international project hosted at Vox Generation Ltd. Vox
is building a scientific team individuals to focus on full
mixed-initiative conversational dialogue systems. In this project, Vox
is partnered with SpeechWorks Int. to develop a new speech recognition
product. In this role, you will research and innovate new techniques in
Unified Hierarchical Language Modelling for training conversational
dialogue systems. This project is partnered with SpeechWorks
International on the development of new language modelling techniques.

The Adaptive Dialogue Management will fuse multi-modal input with
conversational speech. The ADM will model the user dependent behaviour
of preferred interaction modes, as will the language model.

We seek an individual with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Physical
Sciences or Engineering/Mathematics. Quantitative Computational
Linguists with experience in statistical language modelling or
statistical language processing sought. Requirements include: excellent
programming skills in Perl. Preferable skills in Java or C++.
Analytical background in mathematics or hard sciences preferred at
Bachelor's level. Strong grades on A levels.

Contact:
David Horowitz
Chief Scientist
dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com
www.voxgeneration.com

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