LINGUIST List 22.3091 Tue Aug 02 2011 Jobs: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, U of Geneva Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     James Henderson , Statistical Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, University of Geneva, Switzerland Message 1: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, University of Geneva, Switzerland Date: 02-Aug-2011 From: James Henderson <James.Hendersonunige.ch> Subject: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Post Doc, University of Geneva, Switzerland E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: University of Geneva Department: Department of Computer Science Job Location: Geneva, Switzerland Web Address: http://cui.unige.ch/DI/ Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Statistical Natural Language Processing Description: The University of Geneva, Department of Computer Science, invites applications for a post-doctoral research associate position in natural language processing. The successful candidate will be part of the EU-funded project PARLANCE. He/she will investigate statistical methods for natural language understanding, including spoken language understanding. The PARLANCE project will design and build mobile applications that approach human performance in conversational spoken interaction, targeting interactive search and information provision applications. The PARLANCE systems will be based on probabilistic inference procedures and incremental dialog processing. Systems will be developed for English, Spanish and Mandarin. The other project partners are Cambridge University, Heriot-Watt University, CRSA, iSoco, and Yahoo! Iberia. At the University of Geneva, the project will be lead by James Henderson (Department of Computer Science) and Paola Merlo (Department of Linguistics) within the research group Computational Learning and Computational Linguistics (http://clcl.unige.ch/). Work will focus on incremental models of spoken language understanding which integrate domain-general statistical models of syntactic-semantic parsing, as well as open-domain information extraction. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in this project, plus engage in research of their own choosing. Applicants should have received a PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics by the start of the project. The ideal candidate will have a background in natural language processing, statistical methods, machine learning, and spoken language understanding. Good programming skills are required. Fluency in either English or French is required. The appointment is initially for a fixed term of 3 years, with a start date of 1 November 2011 or soon thereafter. Competitive salary, according to qualifications. Review of applications will begin immediately, but will continue until the position is filled. Applications received by 1 September 2011 will be guaranteed full consideration. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interest, and names and addresses of at least 3 references to James Henderson at James.Hendersonunige.ch, with PARLANCE Postdoc as the subject line. Hard copy applications can be sent to the application address below. Informal inquiries can be addressed to James Henderson (James.Hendersonunige.ch) or to Paola Merlo (Paola.Merlounige.ch). The University of Geneva wishes to increase the proportion of female academic staff and, for this reason, especially welcomes applications from women. Application Deadline: Open until filled. Mailing Address for Applications: James Henderson Département d'Informatique Battelle bâtiment A 7, route de Drize 1227 Carouge Switzerland Email Address for Applications: James.Hendersonunige.ch Contact Information: James Henderson Email: James.Hendersonunige.ch Phone: +41 22 379 00 60 Fax: +41 22 379 02 50 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.