--------------------------------------------------------------
Post-Doctoral Position
in Natural Language Processing and Man-Machine Dialogue
at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of EPFL (Switzerland)
---------------------------------------------------------------
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) carries out research
projects in several domains of Language Processing and
Man-Machine Dialogue (probabilistic parsing, content sensitive
document management, information retrieval, text mining) and is
involved in several European projects and industrial
collaborations. (URL:
http://liawww.epfl.ch/Research/research.html#NaturalLanguageProcessing
)
The LIA is currently looking for a Post-Doctoral Research
Assistant in Computer Science to contribute to its research and
development activities in the domain of Man-Machine Dialogue.
The foreseen research activity will take place in the framework
of the European Project INSPIRE (briefly described bellow), for
which the selected candidate would be partly responsible.
Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent)
or expect to complete one before the start date. Good knowledge
of C/C++ is required. Background in Man-Machine Dialogue and
Natural Language Processing is desirable.
The position is available immediately and runs for 1 year (with
possible continuation). It will be held at EPFL (Lausanne,
Switzerland).
The appointment will be in the order of 70'000 CHF a year
(~ $42'000, ~ 48'000 euros) depending on the qualification and
experience of the applicant.
Interested persons should submit a resume to (e-mail preferred):
Martin RAJMAN
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA)
EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
IN Ecublens
CH-1015 LAUSANNE, Switzerland
fax: +41 21 693.52.25
e-mail: Martin.Rajman@epfl.ch
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Description of the work for EPFL in the INSPIRE Project
----------------------------------------------------------------------
INSPIRE European Project (IST-2001 research Programme)
Title: INfotainment management with SPeech Interaction
via Remote-microphones and tElephone interfaces
Full Project Abstract:
The proposed project aims at the development of a multilingual
interactive, natural speech dialogue-based assistant for wireless
command and control of home appliances. Emphasis is given on
infotainment equipment and services, due to their high
complexity, which makes advanced dialogue techniques
necessary. To this end, leading-edge technologies available to
the partners of the consortium, i.e. continuous speech
recognition, speech synthesis, speaker identification, etc., will
be integrated into a prototype, which will be extensively tested
and optimized. The user of the proposed system will be able to
initiate natural spoken dialogues and ask for information about
the current status of any appliance and/or control it, requesting
assistance on its use, etc. Furthermore, he/she will be able, to
use the connection with the public network, to access
telecommunication voice services etc.
EPFL is involved in the "Dialogue Interaction" Work Package (WP):
In this WP, the dialogue component will be set up. Multilingual
Wizard of Oz (WoZ) experiments will be conducted to determine the
dialogue flow for each language that will be incorporated in the
system. A dialogue simulation tool will be developed and
additional user modelling functionalities will be incorporated to
the dialogue component. The dialogue and language models derived
from the WoZ experiments will be used as bootstrap models for the
dialogue system. Subsequently, when the system is set up,
utterances spoken by users will be recorded and transcribed in
order to improve the current dialogue and language models.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Jean-Cédric Chappelier | WWW: http://liawww.epfl.ch/~chaps EPFL, I&C - IIF - LIA, | Tel: +41 21 693.66.83 or .78 INR (Ecublens), CH-1015 Lausanne | Fax: +41 21 693.52.25
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Apr 18 2002 - 23:29:24 MET DST