24 May: fyi -- phd funding, Italy
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The Human Language Technologies research unit of Fondazione Bruno
Kessler (Italy) offers, in collaboration with the University of Trento
(Italy), grants for doctoral students in the following research areas:
- 1 fellowship in Automatic Speech Recognition, (contact: Diego Giuliani
giuliani@fbk.eu)
- 1 fellowship in Spoken and Written Language Translation (contact:
Marcello Federico federico@fbk.eu)
- 2 fellowships in Content Processing (contact: Bernardo Magnini
magnini@fbk.eu)
Candidates should meet the following requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics or
Mathematics.
- Studies should have been completed efficiently, recently and with an
above of average mark.
- Advanced knowledge in either Computational Linguistics, Machine
Learning, Statistics, Patter Recognition, or Speech Recognition.
- Programming experience in C/C++ and/or Java, Python, Perl in the Unix
environment.
- Good English knowledge.
Doctorate fellowships, which are sponsored by FBK, will be formally
pursued at the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of
Trento. The program starts in November 2008, has a minimum length of
three years and includes attendance of courses during the first two
years, while the third is fully dedicated to research work. Detailed
information about the School and the grants assigned to students can be
found at http://ict.unitn.it .
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications through
the website of the ICT School and to get in touch with the above given
contact points to obtain more information about the proposed research
topics.
Information about research activities at FBK and opportunities of
pre-enrollment internships can be found at http://hlt.fbk.eu
.
Closing date for applications: May 2008
[Please feel free to circulate]
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