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Job Announcement: "Junior Research Groups in Speech and Text Processing",
Saarbruecken, Germany

The newly established Excellence Cluster "Multimodal Computing and
Interaction" in Saarbruecken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of
Junior Research Groups which are to be established. The Excellence Cluster
provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong
Computational Linguistics component. One of the cluster's central research
areas is "Speech and Language Processing", covering the research themes of
semantically informed grammatical processing, integration and ontological
grounding of meaning representations, and situated cross-modal speech
processing.
Close interaction with the application-oriented areas "Open-science Web",
"Realistic Virtual Characters", and "Multimodal Interfaces" is planned.

The Deadline for application is March 31, 2008.

For the complete announcement see
http://zeit.academics.de/jobs/junior_research_groups_w1_w2_20595.html.

Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on
http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de.

Feel free to contact:

Prof. Manfred Pinkal (pinkal@coli.uni-sb.de)
or
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu@dfki.de)

for further information.

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