LINGUIST List 5.299

Wed 16 Mar 1994

Jobs: Temporary Job Offer, Lecturer Grade A

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1. , Temporary Job Offer
2. Yorick Wilks, T

Voice Processing Corporation, a leading speech recognition company based in
Cambridge, MA, USA, is looking for an individual to assist in a speech sample
collection project in Spain.

VPC is arranging an office in Madrid. Training and setup of computer system
will be conducted by VPC. The main task of the person in charge is to have
between 2,500 and 3,000 people call in to the system and go through the
collection script. The person in charge preferably is a national of Spain, and
needs to be somewhat familiar with computers. Not other special skills are
required, but persistance and creativity might come in handy.

The project should be finished in about one month, and should start in April.
Apart from the compensation, all costs related to the project itself, plus
expenses for the person in charge will be covered by VPC. This project might
be followed by two similar projects.

If you are interested, please contact Inge De Bleecker by e-mail at
ingevpro.com, or call (617) 494-0100.

 THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

The Department of Computer Science wishes to recruit a Lecturer Grade
A to a fixed 5 year appointment arising from the award of an SERC
Advanced Research Fellowship to Dr.P Mc Kevitt, who lectures in natural
language processing. The lectureship is to replace his teaching and will
be tenable from 1/10/94 and applications are invited from anyone with
research interests in the following areas:

 Cognitive Systems
 Computational Models of Hearing
 Speech Technology
 Natural Language Processing
 Computer Graphics
 Intelligent Tutoring Systems
 Computer Argumentation
 Connectionist Language Processing

 Formal Methods and Software Engineering
 Theory of Computer Science
 Software and systems engineering

 Communication Networks
 Neural Networks

 Parallel Systems
 Safety Critical Systems
 Parallel Databases
 CASE Tools for Parallel Systems

Further details are available from the Department of Computer
Science: jeandcs.sheffield.ac.uk.
Closing date for applications 1st April, 1994 to the Personnel
Department, Western Bank, University of Sheffield, Sheffield,
S10 2TN.