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Vac: 0012.32
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:21:33
From: Helmer Strik <strik@let.kun.nl>
Subject: Vac: 0012.32: Vacature voor een onderzoeker bij de afdeling Taal
en Spraak op de KU Nijmegen (deadline: wo 3
januari 2001)
Vacature Nijmegen
Job opening:
VACANCY AT THE DEPT. OF LANGUAGE & SPEECH, UNIV. OF NIJMEGEN
The Dept. of Language & Speech offers a two-year position
for research on ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) within the European
project MUMIS.
- Project title:
MUMIS: Multimedia Indexing and Searching Environment
- Project description:
MUMIS will develop base technology, demonstrated within a
laboratory prototype, to support automated multimedia indexing and to
facilitate search and retrieval from multimedia databases in specific
domains. The project will demonstrate that innovative technology
components can operate on multilingual, multisource, and multimodal
information and create a meaningful and queryable database with video
content from the soccer domain.
- Data of the MUMIS project:
Starting date: 1 July 2001
Duration: 30 months
The candidate should (preferably) start as soon as possible. The main
task of the candidate will be to develop the automatic speech
recognition (ASR) software for extracting text elements from audio
files and video soundtracks; for Dutch, English and German.
- Required skills:
- experience in ASR technology
- ability to work as part of a team
- Desired skills:
- Perl and UNIX
- MA Speech Science or Computer Science
Additional information on this vacancy and MUMIS can be found at
http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/MUMIS
Additional information on the research activities carried out at
the Dept. of Language & Speech can be found at
http://lands.let.kun.nl/
Information/Application:
Interested parties who (at least partially) fulfill the qualifications
stated above should send the following information (preferably by
e-mail)
before 3 Jan. 2001:
- name and affiliation
- a short paragraph describing your qualifications
- list of publications and prior work
- contact details of references
- pointers to web sites or other relevant resources
to
prof. dr. L. Boves
Boves@let.kun.nl
Tel. +31-(0)24-3612902
http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/boves.en.html
or
dr. H. Strik
Strik@let.kun.nl
Tel. +31-(0)24-3616104
http://zap.to/helmer
postal address:
A2RT, Dept. of Language and Speech,
University of Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9103,
6500 HD Nijmegen,
The Netherlands.
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