Le groupe 'Traitement du Langage Parlé' du LIMSI/CNRS
(http://www.limsi.fr/tlp) recrute un post-doctorant pour travailler sur
le sujet :

Adaptation diachronique et thématique dans un système de reconnaissance.

 Le travail se fera en partie sur le projet ANR EDyLex
 (http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/), et en partie dans le cadre
 du programme Quaero (www.quaero.org/).

Les candidats devront savoir programmer dans un environnement Unix, et
être capable de parler et écrire en anglais.
Ils devront avoir obtenu un doctorat en traitement de la parole.

La durée du contrat est de 1 an.

Le travail se déroulera au LIMSI/CNRS qui se situe à Orsay, au sud de Paris.

Les candidatures devront être adressées, accompagnées d'un CV, à
Jean-Luc Gauvain(gauvain@limsi.fr) et Gilles ADDA (gadda@limsi.fr).
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The Spoken Language Processing Group at the LIMSI/CNRS
(http://www.limsi.fr/tlp) is looking for a postdoc to participate in a
research project on 'Diachronic and thematic adaptation in a speech
transcription system'.

The work will be conducted in the framework of the EDyLex project
(http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/), and of the Quaero
program (www.quaero.org/).

Applicants should be experienced programmers, be familiar with the
Unix environment, and be able to speak and write in English.  The
successful candidate will have a PhD in speech processing.

The position, to be fulfilled as soon as possible, is opened for one
year.

Location: LIMSI/CNRS Orsay, France (South of Paris)

Interested candidates should send a CV to Jean-Luc Gauvain
(gauvain@limsi.fr)
and Gilles Adda (gadda@limsi.fr)

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Title: Professorships on Speech Coding, Semantic Audio Processing and
Psychoacoustics at International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany

website 1:
http://www.uni-erlangen.de/infocenter/jobs/professoren/Three-Professorships-faculty-of-engineering.shtml

website 2: http://www.audiolabs-erlangen.com


Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

The Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with its Institute for Integrated Circuits
jointly operate the 'International Audio Laboratories Erlangen', which
conduct both fundamental and applied research on novel audio technology.
This involves a close and long-term collaboration between both
institutions stipulated by contract. Eventually, more than 50 scientists
will work in this internationally unique research facility.

The Faculty of Engineering invites applications for the following three
professorships to be filled at the Department of Electrical,
Electronics, and Communication Engineering:

W 3-Professorship in Semantic Audio Processing (tenured)

The successful applicant will be expected to represent the field of
semantic processing of audio signals both in research and teaching.
Special focus should be on intelligent and object-oriented analysis,
semantic processing, and respective synthesis of complex audio signal
mixtures.

W 2-Professorship in Psychoacoustics (limited to 5 years)

The successful applicant will be expected to represent the field of
psychoacoustic modelling of human auditory perception and its cognitive
aspects both in research and teaching. Focus areas can be spatial
auditory attributes, computational auditory scene analysis, or
subjective signal quality, as it is relevant for perceptually motivated
audio signal processing and coding.

W 2-Professorship in Speech Coding (limited to 5 years)

The successful applicant will be expected to represent the field of
speech coding both in research and teaching. Special focus should be on
modern methods for low bit-rate combined speech and audio coding, speech
coding based on analysis-by-synthesis, and speech transformation.


Qualifications include university graduate and doctoral degrees, good
teaching skills, and a habilitation or equivalent other qualification,
which may have been gained outside the University or within a
'Juniorprofessur'.

At the time of appointment the candidate must not exceed 52 years of
age. The Ministry for Science, Research and Art, with approval by the
Ministry of Finance, may grant exemptions to this rule. The appointment
will be made by the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. This appointment
will be made by the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is committed to a profamily policy
and an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage women to apply
in an effort to increase a female representation in research and teaching.

The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg pursues a policy of intensive study
support of its students and expects therefore that its teaching staff
maintain a substantial student contact time by being present at the
university.

All other qualifications being equal handicapped persons will be given
priority.

Application documents (curriculum vitae, photograph, list of
publications and teaching activities, and certified copies of degree
certificates but no publications) must be sent not later than July 30,
2011 to: Dekan der Technischen Fakultät der Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstraße 5a, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.

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Un poste de professeur 27 (voir fiche de poste ci-après) sera à pourvoir à
l'Université d'Angers (LERIA et département d'informatique de l'UFR
Sciences) lors d'un recrutement au fil de l'eau pour une prise de fonction
prévue au 1 novembre 2011.

Le calendrier provisoire du concours est le suivant :

- 07/07/2011 au 18/08/2011 : Ouverture de la campagne et candidatures
- 12/09/2011 au 29/09/2011 : Travaux du comité de sélection
- 07/10/2011 au 14/10/2011 : V½ux des candidats
- 17/10/2011 : Publication des résultats sur GALAXIE
- 01/11/2011 : Prise de fonction

Le recrutement étant totalement ouvert, les personnes intéressées peuvent
dès à présent prendre contact.

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title:  

Description: Several funded Ms/Phd positions are available at the Speech Lab

of Istanbul, Turkey (www.ozyegin.edu.tr). Successful researchers will also

potentially be offered consultant and contractor positions at a local speech

recognition company.

Qualifications

Candidates should ideally have a BS, Master or equivalent degree in

engineering or computer science. Candidates with a math or physics

degree and excellent programming skills may apply as well. Either a strong

mathematical and statistical background or a strong background in

programming (C++, Matlab, Python, Java) is required. Having good programming

skills and math skills is a big plus. Previous experience in speech recognition/synthesis,

statistical signal processing or machine learning is an asset.

Key words: speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification, machine learning, data mining

Latest application date: 1/1/2012

Financing: available

Type of Position: scholarship. successful researchers will also potentially be offered consultant

and contractor positions at a local speech recognition company.

Source of Funding: EU and national funds

International travel: funding available

Duration of the Project : 2-4 years

Contact: cenk.demiroglu@ozyegin.edu.tr

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Programming position

ELDA offers a position for its Language Resource Production and Evaluation activities working in the framework of European projects.
The position is related to the development of web-service architectures for the automatic production and distribution of language resources. The candidate may also be involved in the creation of LR repositories, NLP applications development and/or evaluation, etc.

Profile:
- Degree or MSc in computer science, computational linguistics, natural language processing or similar fields
- Good programming skills in Python
- Good knowledge of Django and database management (MySQL)
- Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
- Experience and/or knowledge of web services
- Proficiency in French and English
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular to collaborate with members of a multidisciplinary and multilingual team
- Programming skills in PHP, Perl, C++ or Java are a plus
- Experience and/or knowledge on NLP is a plus

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The position is based in Paris, France and candidates should have the citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country.

Applicants should send (preferably in PDF format and via email) a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to:

Olivier HAMON                                         
ELRA / ELDA                                         
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin                                     
75013 Paris FRANCE
Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30
Email : hamon@elda.org

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The UK Economic and Social Research Council funded Intonational Variation in Arabic project is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Arabic phonetics and phonology. Application information is available here: http://bit.ly/q1fkKl.

The closing date for applications is August 11th and we plan to interview on August 26th. Information about the Intonational Variation in Arabic project is available here: www.york.ac.uk/res/ivar/  

I would be very grateful if you would forward this information to any students or colleagues who might wish to apply.

Best regards,

Sam Hellmuth

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Dr Sam Hellmuth

Department of Language & Linguistic Science
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
email: sam.hellmuth@york.ac.uk
tel: 01904 322657  fax: 01904 322673

Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010

Intonational Variation in Arabic: www.york.ac.uk/res/ivar/    

http://www.york.ac.uk/language/staff/academic-research/sam-hellmuth/

Email disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist Position open at Columbia University in Spoken Dialogue Systems Position:

Research and prototype development of a Spoken Dialogue System Project Description: The Spoken and Natural Language Processing groups at Columbia University in New York City have an opening for a computational linguist with expertise in research in and implementation of Spoken Dialogue Systems, with experience in Natural Language Generation. Some familiarity with multilingual processing is a plus. The Spoken Language Processing and Natural Language Processing groups are collaborating on a large DARPA project to develop state-of-the-art Spoken Dialogue Systems. We will experiment with developing new confidence metrics for guiding confirmation strategies, strategies for clarification sub-dialogues, new types of reference generation, and combining prosody and text to produce effective system prompts. The Speech Group and the NLP Group at Columbia have years of expertise in Natural Language Generation, Spoken Dialogue Systems, prosody, and multilingual processing and work in close collaboration with Research Scientists at the Columbia Center for Computational Learning Systems, who will also participate in this project. The successful candidate will be expected to play a major role in prototyping two Spoken Dialogue Systems to be built during different phases of the project and transferring these to a small team of developers who will create the final systems. One system will perform simple interactions with a robot, and the other will support dialogue in translation. The candidate will also play a major role in the research undertaken with these systems. The position is available for an initial period of two years with possible extension for 3 additional years, depending upon renewal of funding. Qualified applicants should have: • A PhD or equivalent to U.S. PhD in computational linguistics or spoken language processing • Several years’ experience with building spoken dialog systems and/or natural language generation systems • Familiarity with multilingual systems • Good implementational skills (Java, Python and/or C++) • Good English writing skills • The ability to work both independently and in a team in a multidisciplinary environment Conditions of Employment: the position is available from September/October 2011 or until filled Please address questions about the position and send your application and most current CV (and ask for 3 reference letters to be sent) in email to: Julia Hirschberg Department of Computer Science Columbia University julia@cs.columbia.edu Columbia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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Le LIMSI (Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur) à Orsay ouvre deux postes de thèse de doctorat :

- Un poste sur la 'Caractérisation et reproduction de la personnalité vocale d’un acteur'

- un poste sur la 'Synthèse de parole en  temps-réel pour la production d’une personnalité vocale'

Se référer aux sujets de thèse en pièces jointes pour plus de détails.


Cordialement
Christophe d'Alessandro &  Albert Rilliard

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT LIMSI-CNRS

   Topic: New methods for learning Named Entity Recognition systems
   in a multilingual context.

The development of Natural Language Processing systems is impeded by
the absence of annotated data in some languages.  A possible solution
consists in transferring analyses available in one language to
comparable texts in another language.  This makes it possible to train
new systems based on these new annotations.

The proposed project will tackle more specifically the case of Named
Entity Recognition in a context where a 'synchronous comparable
corpus' (or 'noisy parallel corpus') is available: AFP news in French,
English, Spanish (German, Portuguese and Arabic are also available).

The goal is to take advantage of the parallelism of news written in
multiple languages to help recognize named entities:

- in a language for which a Named Entity Recognition system is
  already available, strengthen recognition through entities found in
  parallel articles in other languages;

- in a (target) language for which no NER system is available,
  transfer into that language the analyses obtained in a (source)
  language for which a NER system is available, and use them to train
  a system in that (target) language.

LIMSI has:

- NER systems for French, English and Spanish (with varying levels of
  performance);

- methods for detecting translation relations among news articles.

This work takes place in the context of the EDyLex project, funded by
the French National Research Agency, whose goal is to process unknown
words in texts (http://sites.google.com/site/projetedylex/).  The work
of the successful candidate will be focused on the detection and
categorization of named entities in a multilingual context.

The work will be performed at LIMSI-CNRS in Orsay
(http://www.limsi.fr/) on the campus of University Paris-South.  Two
teams at LIMSI are involved in the project: ILES (written and signed
language processing) and TLP (spoken language processing).


QUALIFICATIONS AND POSITION

The successful candidate will have a track record of Machine Learning
for Natural Language Processing research.  A strong preference will be
given to those candidates with experience in Named Entity Recognition
or Speech Language Understanding.  Fluency in one or more languages of
the project beyond English is mandatory.  Applicants should have
received (by the starting date) a PhD in Machine Learning,
Computational Linguistics or related areas.

This position is for 12 months and may begin as early as Oct 1st,
2011, or soon thereafter.  Salary follows CNRS scales and depends on
the candidate's experience (the minimum monthly net salary is about
2,000 €).

To apply, please send a cover letter, describing how the applicant's
knowledge and research background will contribute to the project, a
CV, and the names and contact information of two referees to:

 Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz@limsi.fr) and Sophie Rosset (rosset@limsi.fr)

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Research Associate/Assistant Vacancies in Cambridge University Dialogue Systems Group

Applications are invited for research positions in statistical dialogue management, automatic speech recognition and statistical speech synthesis.  

The successful applicants will join a small team working on various aspects of spoken interaction with machines including:

• statistical dialogue management using dynamic Bayesian Networks
• fast adaptation and noise robust real time speech recognition
• contextually aware expressive statistical speech synthesis
• automatic evaluation of non-native speaking skills

Candidates should have, or expect to shortly receive, a PhD or have comparable research experience in one or more of the above areas.   Salaries will be in the range £27428 to £35788 depending on qualifications and experience, and the starting date is flexible.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the leading groups in statistical speech and language processing.  Cambridge provides excellent research facilities and there are extensive opportunities for collaboration, visits and attending conferences.  

Further information on the work of the Dialogue Systems Group and more details on these vacancies can be found at:

http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/dialogue/jobs.html

Prospective candidates should send their CV as soon as possible to Dr Kai Yu or Prof Steve Young ({ky219,mailto:sjy11%7D@cam.ac.uk).

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Postdoc position in Speech Recognition, Adaptation, Retrieval and Translation In Aalto University School of Science (previously known as Helsinki University of Technology) in Department of Information and Computer Science.

 http://research.ics.tkk.fi/speech/jobs11.shtml We are looking for a postdoc to join our research group working on machine learning and probabilistic modeling in speech recognition, adaptation, retrieval and translation. Speech recognition group (led by Mikko Kurimo) belongs to the national Center of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics (by prof Oja, 2006-2011) and Computational Inference (by prof Oja, 2012-2017) which are the successors to the Neural Networks Research Centre (by prof Kohonen, 1995-2005). We are happy to consider outstanding candidates interested in any of our research themes, for example: • large-vocabulary speech recognition • acoustic and language model adaptation • speech recognition in noisy environments • speech retrieval and translation based on unsupervised morpheme models • speech recognition in multimodal and multilingual interfaces and information retrieval • speech recognition in indexing streaming audio and video Postdoc: 1 year + extension possibilities. Starting date: As soon as possible. Position requires a relevant doctoral degree in CS or EE, skills for doing excellent research in a group, and outstanding research experience in any of the research themes mentioned above. The candidate is expected to perform high-quality research, and assist in supervising PhD students. In Helsinki you will join the innovative international computational data analysis and ICT community. Among European cities, Helsinki is special in being clean, safe, liberal, Scandinavian, and close to nature, in short, having a high standard of living. English is spoken everywhere. See. e.g. Visit Finland. Please attach a CV including a list of publications and email addresses of 2-3 people willing to give more information. Include a brief description of research interests and send the application by email to Mikko Kurimo, Mikko.Kurimo at tkk.fi Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science

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PhD Scholarship in Human and Automatic Speaker Characterisation
Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra

A PhD Scholarship is offered for a maximum of 3 years in the area of speaker recognition and characterisation. The value of the stipend in 2011 is A$31,860 per annum, which corresponds to the current base level of the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) plus a top-up of A$9,000 per annum. In the following years the stipend will be indexed to the base level of the APA plus the A$9,000 top-up. The award is tax-free in Australia.

Applications close 15 September 2011

The University of Canberra, the Technical University of Berlin and Deutsche Telekom AG are undertaking a joint research project in the field of speaker recognition and speaker characterisation. The project will evaluate both human and automatic speaker recognition and speaker characterisation performance over different channels, and it will provide a framework of speech quality factors for high-quality voice services.

The successful candidate will have a good honours degree or equivalent with research experience in speech or speaker recognition, digital signal processing and pattern recognition. He or she will conduct research towards the aims of the project under the supervision of Prof. Michael Wagner of the University of Canberra and Prof. Sebastian Möller of the Technical University of Berlin. The position is based at the University of Canberra, but will involve a substantial period, or periods, of time at the Technical University of Berlin. The continuation of the Scholarship is contingent upon satisfactory progress according to the rules for higher-degree-by-research (HDR) students at the University of Canberra and is limited to three years.

At the University of Canberra, the candidate  will be working within the Biometrics Research Group (formerly the National Centre for Biometric Studies), a research group working on biometric technology, applied to a range of authentication and forensic applications and including speech and image processing.   At TU Berlin, the candidate will be hosted at the Quality and Usability Lab (www.qu.tu-berlin.de), which is part of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, and will be integrated into a highly vibrant multidisciplinary research group dealing with all aspects of human-machine interaction.

General information for prospective HDR students at the University of Canberra can be found at www.canberra.edu.au, and further information may be obtained from michael.wagner@canberra.edu.au and from sebastian.moeller@telekom.de. Both Prof. Wagner and Prof. Möller will also be available for direct contact at Interspeech 2011 in Florence.

Applications including a CV are to be sent by email to michael.wagner@canberra.edu.au.

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Postdoc position: Articulatory copy synthesis at LORIA (Nancy, France).

One year, start between October and December 2011 at LORIA (Nancy, France). Description The objective is to synthesize speech from dynamic and static articulatory data of the vocal tract. Several kinds of data are available: X-ray films recorded in the eighties, static MRI data of the vocal tract, EMA data (electromagnetography, i.e. positions of sensors glued onto speech articulators acquired at a frame rate of 200 Hz) and ultrasound images of the tongue registered with respect to the speaker’s head. We already built an adaptable articulatory model, which describes the 2D geometry of the vocal tract from the larynx to the lips. The area function of the vocal tract can be derived easily from this model. We thus plan to animate this model from EMA or ultrasound data. The second part of the postdoc deals with the connection between the dynamics of the vocal tract shape provided by the articulatory model and the acoustic simulation. The synthesizer developed by S. Maeda can generate any speech sound, i.e. consonants and vowels, but the difficulty is to pilot the transitions between vowels and consonants relevantly to avoid any spurious artifact. Expected skills Medical imaging, signal processing, acoustics, speech processing Contact: Yves.Laprie@loria.fr

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Aalto University (http://www.aalto.fi/en/) is a new multidisciplinary university, where science and art meet technology and business. The University is located in Espoo and Helsinki in Finland. The new university's ambitious goal is to rank among the top universities in the world in its areas of specialization.

Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering invites applications for:

TENURE TRACK OR TENURED POSITION IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, which can be filled on any level from assistant professor to tenured professor

The tenure track is open to talented individuals who have excellent potential for a scientific career. On the basis of their experience and competence, applicants will be placed on any of the four levels of the tenure track system: Assistant Professor (1), Assistant Professor (2), Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The candidates for the two first-mentioned levels are appointed for a fixed term, while the candidates for Associate Professor positions are appointed either permanently or for a fixed term. Full Professor positions are permanent.

The position is located at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics (http://spa.tkk.fi/en/index/). The Department puts special emphasis on scientific publications in high-impact journals combined with industrial collaboration within ICT sector. The industrial relevance of the Department’s research is very high and the research groups have close cooperation with several ICT and other high-tech companies.

In this call, the Department is seeking to hire highly qualified individuals for the position. The candidates should provide world class competence in speech and language processing or closely related fields supporting and complementing the present strong focus areas of the Department’s research and teaching. All qualified candidates in the study area are encouraged to apply.

The dead line of the applications is October 31, 2011. Application call and instruction are available here:

http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/professors/

For additional information, please contact Vice Head of the Department, Professor Paavo Alku (Paavo.Alku@aalto.fi).

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School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland
P.O.Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Tel +358-13-251 7928 (office), Fax +358-13-251 7955

JOENSUU, FINLAND: One postdoctoral researcher and one PhD position in speech technology

University of Eastern Finland (UEF) is a new university merged from the universities of Joensuu and Kuopio, with 15000 students and 2800 employees (http://www.uef.fi/uef/english). School of Computing (SoC) is one of the biggest departments in UEF, with about 120 employees in two campuses. There are three main research directions in the department, (1) intelligent media computing, (2) software engineering and (3) educational technology. The positions announced take place in Joensuu campus, in the Speech and Image Processing Unit (SIPU) research group (http://cs.joensuu.fi/sipu/). Current research topics of the group include speech technology (especially speaker recognition), clustering methods and mobile navigation systems. The SIPU group announces

ONE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AND ONE PHD POSITION IN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY

Both positions are filled in a 4-year Academy of Finland project 'Reliable speaker recognition and modification', starting January 2012. The context of the project is studying interplay of two spoken language technologies, speaker recognition and voice conversion. The main responsibility of the post-doctoral researcher is to establish and improve a state-of-the-art voice conversion framework and to integrate it with speaker recognition methods. In addition to research activities, the postdoc is expected to take part (10% to 20% of time) in supervising PhD and MSc students in related topics. The PhD candidate will work on either voice conversion, speaker recognition or both. There are no teaching duties.

Both candidates are expected to have a degree in spoken language technology, electrical engineering, computer science or closely related field. The candidates should be familiar with Unix/Linux tools and Matlab with excellent skills in signal processing or machine learning. Experience in either synthesis/conversion or recognition methods, participation to technology benchmarks (e.g. NIST evaluations or Blizzard challenge), knowledge of HTK, HTS and C/C++, and industrial experience are considered a plus.

The postdoctoral researcher position is filled for a period of 1 year (with option to extend). The duration of the PhD position is up to 4 years. The salary of the PhD student will be placed on levels 1-4 of the job requirement level chart for teaching and research personnel in the Salary System for Finnish Universities (1716 eur to 2359 eur/month before taxes). The salary of the post-doctoral researcher will follow default level 5 (2714 eur/month before taxes). In addition, the appointees will be paid an additional salary component based on their personal performance which can be a maximum of 46.3 per cent of the job requirement component. We will also cover at least one conference participation per year.

The application consisting of the following documents should be sent or delivered to the Registry Office of the University of Eastern Finland. Postal address: Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Kirjaamo, PL 111, 80101 Joensuu or Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Kirjaamo, PL 1627, 70211 Kuopio. Street address: Yliopistokatu 2 (Joensuu) and Yliopistonranta 1 E (Kuopio). Email: kirjaamo@uef.fi. The deadline for applications is Friday November 4, 2011 (at 3.00 pm Finland time). We cannot guarantee that applications sent after the deadline will be taken into account. The application should include at least:

o    A cover letter indicating the position to be applied and free-worded
    application, describing the special qualities of the applicant relevant
    to the applied position.
o    Full curriculum vitae (CV), including the list of publications (if any).
o    Copies of relevant diplomas and transcripts of academic records. The diplomas
    should be in English or Finnish, and the grading system should be described.
o    The names and contact information of at least two referees.

All enquiries related to the positions should be addressed to Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen, tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi or tomi.kinnunen@uef.fi, Tel. +358 13 251 7963,
www http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/tkinnu/webpage/

This application can also be found at http://www.uef.fi/avoimet-tyopaikat

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RESEARCH and TEACHING POSITIONS for 2011-2012 in Paris
Laboratoire d’excellence “Empirical Foundations of Linguistics: data, methods,
models” (LabEx EFL).

The LabEx EFL is a 10 year project funded by the French Ministry of Higher
Education and Research and relies on a cluster of 13 research teams (by alphabetic order: Alpage,
CRLAO, HTL, Lacito, Lattice, LIPN, Llacan, LLF, LPP-Paris3, LPP-Paris5, LpnCog/MemCog,
MII, and Sedyl, in alphabetical order) from 5 Parisian Universities (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris
Diderot University, Paris Descartes University, Paris 13 University and INALCO ), in partnership with CNRS, INRIA, EPHE,  and IRD.

The project’s aim is to
promote interdisciplinary innovative research between different fields of
theoretical and applied linguistics, with a special focus on empirical
foundations and experimental methods.

For the academic year 2011-2012, we are offering the following positions :

-    International Chair of quantitative and experimental linguistics (invited
professorships)
-    9 Postdoctoral positions in the following fields :
Prosody, Experimental syntax, Experimental semantics Text data mining, Language
typology, History of  computational linguistics
-    2 Engineers in the following fields :
Language resources, Psycholinguistics
-    1 three year PhD stipend  in Experimental semantics (Laboratory Linguistique
formelle, University Paris Diderot)
-    2 Research assistants in Psycholinguistics (Laboratory Psychologie de la
Perception, University Paris Descartes)

Application deadline November 10th 2011
http:// www.labex-efl.org

Another call will be issued for positions to be filled in 2012.

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Université Paris Diderot

Poste de Professeur. Profil : Phonétique expérimentale

Le candidat, qui devra avoir une compétence en phonétique expérimentale (acoustique, articulatoire) ancrera son travail de recherche dans un programme s’articulant à un ou plusieurs autres domaines de la linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique). Un intérêt pour la  prosodie ou pour l’étude linguistique des corpus oraux serait apprécié. Le candidat sera responsable de l’animation de la filière Phonétique Expérimentale de l’UFRL de Paris-Diderot et de l’encadrement des étudiants qui en relèvent.

Enseignement : filières de formation concernées

L3-M1-M2 de sciences du langage Enseignements fondamentaux obligatoires dans tous les cursus spécialités :  - Linguistique théories descriptives- Linguistique informatique- FLE- Phonétique

Activités de Recherche

Le candidat sera responsable de l’animation de la filière Phonétique Expérimentale de l’UFRL de Paris-Diderot et de l’encadrement des étudiants qui en relèvent au sein du laboratoire de phonétique. Il axera sa recherche en phonétique expérimentale dans un programme adossé à un ou plusieurs autres domaines de la linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique).

Equipe ou unité de recherche d’affectation

Le candidat sera rattaché au laboratoire CLILLAC-ARP.

Contact

Philippe Martin : directeur UFR 01 57 27 57 87 philippe.martin@linguist.jussieu.fr

Jeanine Mary : responsable administrative 01 57 27 57 80

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Offre post-doctorale en traitement de la parole.

Avignon, LIA.

Dans le cadre du projet « Reconnaissance de personnes dans des contenus audiovisuels » (PERCOL), financé par l'ANR, le LIA souhaite recruter un chercheur post-doctorant dans le domaine du traitement automatique de la parole. Le thème de recherche principal portera sur l'identification de personnes dans des émissions télévisées, sur la base du signal audio uniquement.
Le projet PERCOL fait partie des trois projets retenus par l'ANR pour participer au défi REPERE (REconnaissance de PERsonnes dans des Emissions audiovisuelles), projet d'évaluations dans le domaine de la reconnaissance multimédia de personnes dans des documents télévisuels.

Dans ce contexte, le projet PERCOL vise à l'élaboration d'un système de reconnaissance de personnes, utilisant différentes modalités présentes dans les émissions télévisées ciblées : audio, image, vidéo et texte (sous-titres incrustés). Les partenaires du projet sont académiques (le LIF [Marseille], le LIA [Avignon] et le LIFL [Lilles]) et industriel (Orange Labs).

Le post-doctorant aura en charge l'amélioration de la plateforme d'identification/suivi de personnes développée au LIA, basée sur le signal audio. Cette plateforme comprend un système de segmentation et de regroupement en locuteurs et un système d'identification de personnes à partir de la segmentation obtenue. Il sera amené à intervenir sur le système de transcription de la parole du LIA et interviendra également dans les travaux sur la fusion multimodale en collaboration avec les autres partenaires du projet.

Le candidat devra posséder une thèse récente en informatique ou en traitement du signal avec une grande expérience en traitement de la parole et/ou en traitement et classification de signaux sonores. Il devra démontrer des connaissances théoriques et pratiques en reconnaissance des formes, classification et approches statistiques.

Le LIA (http://lia.univ-avignon.fr) est une Equipe d'Accueil (EA n° 4128) qui regroupe les enseignants-chercheurs de l’Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (UAPV) relevant de la 27e section du CNU ainsi que les ingénieurs, les doctorants et les stagiaires de MASTER durant la période consacrée à leur travail de recherche. Le post-doctorant rejoindra la thématique langage du laboratoire et travaillera avec les membres de la thématique travaillant sur le projet PERCOL.

Le poste, d'une durée de 12 mois, éventuellement prolongée de 12 mois, est à pourvoir à partir du 1e janvier 2012. La rémunération est comprise entre 2000 et 2200 euros nets par mois, suivant l'expérience du candidat.

Merci de contacter Corinne Fredouille (corinne.fredouille@univ-avignon.fr) si vous souhaitez plus de précisions ou pour postuler en envoyant un CV étendu.

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The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria (FTW) is currently hiring for the following position:

PhD position on speech synthesis, Vienna, Austria.

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria (FTW) is a dynamic company with an international atmosphere that carries out application-oriented research on communication solutions for different application fields. Our mission is to fill the gap between science and industry, pursuing a challenging research program in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners.

 The successful candidate will work within a 3-year basic research project on acoustic modeling and transformation of language varieties in FTW’s Cognitive Interface group in the area of User Interaction and Communication Economics.

 You can find more information starting with November 9, 2012 on www.ftw.at. Informal inquiries can be made by email to Dr. Michael Pucher (pucher@ftw.at). On more information on our current and past projects in this field please visit https://portal.ftw.at/projects/avds/ and https://portal.ftw.at/projects/vsds/.

 The application closes on 15.12.2011. The earliest possible starting date is 01.2.2012

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Applications are invited for an anticipated postdoctoral position at Northwestern University in the area of computational modeling of the lexicon in many different languages. The postdoctoral fellow will work with  linguistics professor Janet Pierrehumbert as a member of an  interdisciplinary team that  includes outstanding computer scientists and electrical engineers at four other American research institutions.  The Northwestern component of the collaborative project will focus on novel methods for bootstrapping lexical networks from sparse statistical samples. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D in computational linguistics, EECS, applied mathematics, or physics, and the demonstrated ability to create and document robust software. Familiarity with C, Python and Unix/Linux environments are a plus.

Negotiable start date in early 2012. Competitive salary scale comparable to  postdoctoral positions in computer science.  Initial appointment for one year with renewal subject to performance and availability of funding.  Please apply by email with  a statement of research interests and a CV including the names and contact information for three references. Send the application to: linguistics@northwestern.edu  using the subject line: Pierrehumbert postdoc

The application should arrive by December 10, 2011 to receive  fullest consideration.

Northwestern is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and applications are encouraged from all qualified junior researchers. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States. Non-US-residents will receive consideration for the position.

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PhD student in Sonification Research
(Audio Engineering/ Climate Science)
Applications are invited for a postgraduate student to join the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics
(IEM, http://iem.kug.ac.at) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz for the FWF funded project
SysSon – A systematic procedure to develop sonifications.
The goal of SysSon is the systematic development of sonifications - from finding sound metaphors and creating
a ‘sound library’ to aesthetic/ scientific evaluation and finally the sonification tool ‘ClAudio-Climate Audio’. The
procedure is developed with and tested on data from Climate Science. Main researchers of the project (and
supervisors of the PhD) are R. Höldrich and K. Vogt at IEM, where the PhD student will be based. Cooperation
partners are the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (www.wegcenter.at) and the Center for
Systematic Musicology (www.uni-graz.at/en/muwi99ww).
The PhD will comprise the application of the procedure to data from climate science: handling data
compatibility issues, sound synthesis, co-development of evaluation test design, finalizing of ClAudio, and
supporting of sound installation.
The position is available from 1st February 2012 and financial support is guaranteed for 2 ½ years (an
additional half year of support for writing up the thesis is envisaged). Salary will be paid according to
www.fwf.ac.at („Personalkostensätze“ – „DoktorandIn“).
The closing date for applications is 25th December 2011. (Skype) interviews are planned for January.
Female applicants are preferentially considered in case of equal qualification.
We expect:
· A Master’s degree in audio engineering and electrical engineering or computer science or similar, who
have a solid scientific background in acoustics, sound synthesis and auditory perception. An
additional background in sciences (physics/ climate science) is beneficial. Candidates about to earn
their degree are welcome to apply.
· Familiarity with programming languages (either SuperCollider3 or Pure Data; plus other programs
such as Max MSP, MATLAB, etc.) is a precondition.
· High motivation for interdisciplinary and application-oriented work and a special interest for
sonification research.
· An integrative and cooperative personality.
· Very good communication skills in English.
We offer:
· A top-level research environment at the edge of technology and the arts; the IEM is considered to be
Austria’s leading research institution in the field of audio engineering with the three research areas
Artistic Research, Signal Processing and Acoustics, and Computer Music (including sonification).
· Efficient supervision by an interdisciplinary team of supervisors, strong communication and
interaction between the involved institutions.
· The location in Graz – a city of five universities (two are involved in SysSon) and cultural capital of
Europe 2003, hosting internationally renowned festivals such as steirischer herbst and Elevate.
Please send your applications (in English or German) to vogt@iem.at including:
· letter of motivation or résumé
· CV
· copy of relevant university diplomas
· a short exposé (1-2 pages) on a previous project related to audio engineering, sonification or similar
(sound examples –or their links- are welcome)

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Post-doctoral position in Cognitive Neuroscience
Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral research position in the
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH GROUP at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
The post is part of the BRAINGLOT project, a Research Network on Bilingualism and
Cognitive Neuroscience (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Scheme, Spanish Ministry of
Science and Education).
Project
The project brings together the efforts of several research groups spanning different
scientific disciplines with the common purpose of addressing the phenomenon of
bilingualism from an open and multidisciplinary perspective. The MRG attempts to
understand the use of multisensory cues (audiovisual) speech information in the
context of learning and using a second language. The project includes behavioral,
neuroimaging (fMRI, ERP) and, neurostimulation (TMS) approaches.
Job description
We seek a person who leads the electrophysiological aspects of the project
(ERP/EEG), including the development of independent scientific studies, as well as the
participation (i.e., supervision) in others. Involvement in some organizational and
management aspects is also expected.
Candidate requirements
- Previous experience in ERP/EEG recording and analysis is *indispensable*
- PhD
- Motivation about the question of multisensory integration and/or speech perception
- Background in cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, and/or cognitive psychology
- Programming skills
* Applicants from outside the EU are welcome to apply but must qualify for a valid visa.
Conditions
- Duration: The position will be funded and renewable for up to two years
- Starting date: As soon as possible
- Salary: 28000EUR/year
- Travel: The project may require some travel to conferences / meetings
How to apply
Applications should include:
- a C.V. including a list of publications
- the names of two referees who would willing to write letters of recommendation
- a brief cover letter describing research interests
For informal enquiries about the position and applications, please contact Salvador
Soto-Faraco. salvador.soto@icrea.es (http://www.mrg.upf.edu). Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.
Please, mention that you are applying to the POSTDOCTORAL position in the email
subject

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