26 September: fyi -- dialogue, Bremen
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The Natural Language Interaction Group at the University of Bremen has
several positions open for computational linguists specialising in
dialogue systems. Excellent candidates at both doctoral and
post-doctoral levels are invited to apply to work within our
Collaborative Research Center on Spatial Cognition, where we are
designing and building dialogue systems for interacting with users
performing a variety of spatially-related tasks. Successful candidates
will have: (i) programming experience in the areas central to dialogue
systems, e.g., dialogue control mechanisms, contextualisation and
speech act interpretation, analysis and generation systems, as well as
general architectures for dialogue systems, and (ii) experience in
relating empirical and corpus-based dialogue studies to computational
implementation. Successful candidates will work on, and develop
further, our current dialogue system. This system has a
state-of-the-art information-state based architecture combining formal
control of dialogue, CCG-based analysis, SFG-based generation,
ontology-driven interaction and embedding with spatially-aware
applications and therefore offers a rich foundation for many
independent research topics in central areas of computational dialogue
theory, implementation, and application. Since our dialogue
applications require interactions in both English and German,
knowledge of German is strongly desirable.
The Natural Language Interaction Group is a highly multidisciplinary
team combining discourse analysts, psycholinguists, computational
linguists and ontological engineers. We work in close cooperation with
several projects within the Collaborative Research Center, which spans
cognitive science, neurocognition, perception, formal spatial calculi,
architecture, and AI. The environment is international and at the
cutting edge of several related disciplines. The positions are
available for an initial period of two years and will be filled as
quickly as possible. Although centrally research positions, it will
also be possible to teach courses in Computational Linguistics in our
undergraduate linguistics and informatics programs if desired.
Necessary qualifiations:
1. completed first degree in computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, linguistics, informatics or similar
2. experience with analysing naturally occuring dialogue and modern
approaches to dialogue corpora
3. good programming skills (Java and/or Lisp, Perl, etc.)
4. good English writing skills
5. ability to work both independently and in a team in a
multidisciplinary environment
Application with the usual documents (CV and list of publications, etc.)
to:
Prof. John Bateman
University of Bremen
http://www.uni-bremen.de/~bateman
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