LINGUIST List 11.1481

Thu Jul 6 2000

Support: Multimodal Conversational Systems: PhD/Denmark

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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1. Martin Klesen, Multimodal Conversational Systems - Ph.D. Studentship, Denmark

PH.D. STUDENTSHIP (3 YEARS) IN MULTIMODAL CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS,
DENMARK

A three-year Ph.D. grant is available at the Natural Interactive Systems
Laboratory (NISLab). The topic of the Ph.D. must lie within the broad
area of conversational systems. Conversational systems span a wide range
of potential Ph.D. topics, including, e.g., animated agents and computer
animation, conversational agents, advanced spoken dialogue systems,
negotiation dialogues and other complex types of dialogue, multimodal
speech and pointing gesture, advanced dialogue error handling/avoidance,
conversational systems architectures, and tools in support of building
conversational systems. Preferably, the PhD student will work in
collaboration with one of NISLab's research projects in the area.

The Ph.D. student will be part of an internationally recognised, very
active and interdisciplinary research team at NISLab, contributing to
NISLab's research agenda in natural interactive systems theory and
prototyping. In 2000, NISLab leads or is partner in approximately ten,
mostly European, research projects which serve the vision of natural
human-human-system interaction. NISLab is an affiliate of DARPA
Communicator. NISLab is responsible for the SDU's teaching of candidate
and masters students in interactive media in collaboration with the
Humanities Faculty. The working language at NISLab is English.

QUALIFICATIONS OR EXPERTISE: Background in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, Computational Linguistics or Cognitive Science. Knowledge
of programming and systems development is desirable.

THE SALARY LEVEL is approx. 33.000 Euros per year.

LOCATION OF JOB: NISLab, the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory,
University of Southern Denmark - Odense, Denmark (www.nis.sdu.dk).
Odense is about 90 minutes from Copenhagen by road or train.

START: As soon as possible.

CLOSING DATE: 10 August 2000 at noon.

Applications must be submitted on a form which prof. Bernsen's
secretary, Merete Bertelsen, will send you if you phone her on +45 65 50
35 51 or use email: meretenis.sdu.dk. The form exists in English and in
Danish.

Applications in 3 copies marked "Position No. 003016" must arrive at the
Faculty Secretariat, Faculty for the Natural and Technical Sciences,
University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark on
10 August 2000, noon, at the latest.

For more information on the PhD grant, please contact prof. Bernsen by
phone or email, cf. the signature below.


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Professor Niels Ole Bernsen
Director of the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
University of Southern Denmark
Main Campus: Odense University
Science Park 10
5230 Odense M
Denmark

Tel. ( +45) 65 50 35 44 (direct)
Tel. ( +45) 65 50 10 00 (switchboard)
Fax (+45) 63 15 72 24

email: nobnis.sdu.dk
URL: http://www.nis.sdu.dk