19 October: fyi -- emotion in speech, UK
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Research Assistant in Dialogue Management Systems and Emotional
Quality in Speech Recognition
Salary: £20,842 -- £24,161 per annum
There will be up to three positions in computer dialogue management
implementation and speech research, depending on whether they are
filled full or half time, the latter having the possibility of
studying for a PhD as a staff candidate on this topic while working on
the project. The post is associated to the EU-funded Companions
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/companions/ one of the largest projects
funded by the European Union as part of Framework 6, Information
Society Technologies. This is a four year project starting in 2006 and
ending in 2010. Initial contracts will be for one year. Job reference
number PR2618 (for online applications and formal details please look
at http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/). DEADLINE 3 NOVEMBER 2006
Research Associate in Dialogue Management Systems and Emotional
Quality in Speech Recognition
Salary: £24,161 -- £31,525 per annum
There will be up to three positions in computer dialogue management
implementation and speech research, depending on whether they are
filled full or half time, the latter having the possibility of
studying for a PhD as a staff candidate on this topic while working on
the project. The post is associated to the EU-funded Companions
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/companions/ one of the largest projects
funded by the European Union as part of Framework 6, Information
Society Technologies. This is a four year project starting in 2006 and
ending in 2010. Initial contracts will be for one year. Job reference
number PR2617 (for online applications and formal details please look
at http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/). DEADLINE 1 NOVEMBER 2006
The post holders will participate in the Companions Project and be
responsible for developing and testing programs for dialogue
management systems that underlie a speech and graphics interface for
an artificial companion. Applicants must have a good first degree or
equivalent, and a PhD would be an advantage, for at least one
position, as would experience in language processing by
computer. These are fixed-term posts available for one year in the
first instance. Details of the NLP group at Sheffield, probably the
largest in the UK, are at www.nlp.shef.ac.uk, and informal enquiries
may be made to Professor Yorick Wilks at yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk.
Christopher Brewster
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Natural Language Processing Group,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street
Sheffield S1 4DP UNITED KINGDOM
Web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~kiffer/
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