28 July: fyi -- phd funding & postdocs, Portugal

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INESC ID, Lisbon Portugal

The Spoken Language Systems Lab (L2F) of INESC ID currently has several
open positions for PhD students and postdocs in spoken language
processing, covering the following topics:

- audio events detection
- voice morphing
- spontaneous speech recognition
- recognition of different varieties of Portuguese
- use of GRID computing for NLP

Most of these research activities take place in the framework of
national projects (e.g. "Rich Transcription of Lectures for E-Learning
Applications", "Natural Language Engineering on a Computational GRID")
and/or European projects ("Education through Characters with Emotional
Intelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social
Interaction", "Audiovisual Search Engines") or bilateral cooperation
programs.

Applicants are expected to have several years experience in the above
areas, with good and practical knowledge of C/C++/Java.

Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation until October
1st, along with their detailed CV and names of 3 references to
info@l2f.inesc-id.pt

For more information, please contact Isabel Trancoso at the same address
or visit the website www.l2f.inesc-id.pt

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