Job Announcement: Saarland University

Speech and Language Processing: Junior Research Group, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

Employer:		Saarland University Computational Linguistics http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de
Job Location:		Saarbruecken, Germany
Rank or Title:		Junior Research Group
Linguistic Field(s):		Computational Linguistics Speech and Language Processing
LL Issue:		19.618
Date Posted:		22-Feb-2008
Job Description:		The newly established Excellence Cluster 'Multimodal Computing and Interaction' in Saarbruecken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of Junior Research Groups which are to be established. The Excellence Cluster provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong Computational Linguistics component. One of the cluster's central research areas is 'Speech and Language Processing', covering the research themes of semantically informed grammatical processing, integration and ontological grounding of meaning representations, and situated cross-modal speech processing. Close interaction with the application-oriented areas 'Open-science Web', 'Realistic Virtual Characters', and 'Multimodal Interfaces' is planned. For the complete announcement see http://zeit.academics.de/jobs/junior_research_groups_w1_w2_20595.html. Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Feel free to contact: Prof. Manfred Pinkal or Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (hansu@dfki.de) for further information. Applicants should submit their application (curriculum vitae, list of publications, short research plan, copies of degree certificates, copies of the five most important publications) to the postal address shown below. Additionally, please send your application as a single PDF file to the application email listed below.
Application Deadline:		31-Mar-2008
Application Address:		Professor Hans-Peter Seidel MPI Informatics Campus E1 4 Saarbrücken 66123 Germany
Application Email:		applications@mmci.uni-saarland.de
Contact Information:		Professor Manfred Pinkal click here to access email Phone: +49-681-302-4344 Fax: +49-681-302-4351