LINGUIST List 12.427

Thu Feb 15 2001

Jobs: Spoken Dialogue at AT&T Labs, NJ, USA

Editor for this issue: Michael Appleby <michaellinguistlist.org>

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1. Michael Johnston, Spoken Dialogue Management at AT&T Labs, NJ, USA

Rank of Job: 
Areas Required: Dialogue Management, Performance Modeling and Automatic
Adaptation in Multi-Modal and Spoken Dialogue Systems
Other Desired Areas: 
University or Organization: AT&T Labs Research
Department: Spoken Dialogue Research
State or Province: New Jersey
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: March 15th, 2001
Contact: Michael Johnston johnstonresearch.att.com

Address for Applications:
180 Park Ave
Florham Park
New Jersey 07932
U.S.A.

Dialogue Management, Performance Modeling and Automatic Adaptation
 in Multi-Modal and Spoken Dialogue Systems


The spoken dialogue research group at AT&T Labs research has a one
year renewable research position starting Spring/Summer 2001.
Research foci in multi-modal and spoken dialogue management includes
performance modeling and evaluation, automatic training and
adaptation, natural language generation, natural language
understanding, multi-modal parsing and integration, and multimodal
dialogue management.

Requirements: 

Ph.D. or M.S. in a research area related to natural language
processing or dialogue systems. Interest and experience in empirical
methods of research, user interfaces, machine learning, or performance
modeling are a plus. Salary dependent on experience.

Location: 

AT&T Labs Research is located in Florham Park, New Jersey, about an
hour by train from New York City. The successful candidate will join a
team of researchers working closely together on techniques for the
next generation of dialogue systems.


For more information, visit the Communicator webpages at
http://communicator.research.att.com/research/communicator.html

Interested parties should contact Marilyn Walker
(walkerresearch.att.com)
or Michael Johnston (johnstonresearch.att.com)
http://www.research.att.com/~walker/cv.html
http://www.research.att.com/info/johnston

Please include your CV and a letter indicating what areas you would be
interested in working in. We plan to make decisions by March 31st,
2001.