30 April: fyi -- phd funding, Dublin
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Digital Media Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology
School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology
Applications are invited for fully funded, 3year PhD studentships in
the Digital Media Centre and School of Computing at the Dublin
Institute of Technology. The Lok8 (locate) project will investigate
the use of personalised, contextual locationbased services (LBS) using
mobile devices ranging from auditory user interfaces on Bluetooth
earpieces to intelligent avatars equipped with cameras, microphones,
speakers, and projectors. The project will be staffed by 4 PhD
students who will each work on a distinct stand of the project, but
will at all times remain in close contact with the other members of
the team. Applications are invited for the following project strand: ·
Contact: This Contact portion of the project will develop a dialog
manager for a multimodal dialogue system that will take as input a
logical representation of the user's utterances and (a) construct and
maintain a model of the dialogue between the user and the system; (b)
interpret users' references against the dialogue context provided by
the dialogue model and the results of the spatial querying of the
databases developed by Tracker; (c) generate logical descriptions of
the semantic content of multimodal utterances that can be used for
multimodal communication. Skills Required: Applicants for the
studentship are expected to have a good honours degree in computer
science, computational linguistics or a related discipline and strong
written and spoken English. Knowledge of natural language processing
techniques is desirable.
The grant covers a studentship of 17,000 per year, plus all fees,
equipment costs and relevant travel costs. For further information on
the project please contact Dr. John Kelleher
(John.Kelleher@comp.dit.ie). Formal applications for the positions
should be made through the Postgraduate Research Office of the Dublin
Institute of Technology (www.dit.ie/DIT/study/graduate/research/).
The closing date for applications is 31/5/2008 with the project
proposed to start on 1/9/2008.
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