AT&T - Labs Research is seeking exceptional candidates for Research Staff positions. AT&T is the premiere broadband, IP, entertainment, and wireless communications company in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world. Our researchers are dedicated to solving real problems in speech and language processing, and are involved in inventing, creating and deploying innovative services. We also explore fundamental research problems in these areas. Outstanding Ph.D.-level candidates at all levels of experience are encouraged to apply. Candidates must demonstrate excellence in research, a collaborative spirit and strong communication and software skills. Areas of particular interest are

• Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
• Robust speech recognition
• Speaker recognition
• Speech data mining
• Natural language understanding and dialog
• Text and web mining
• Voice and multimodal search

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Dialogue Systems Group
Institute of Information Technology
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Ulm, Germany

The Dialogue Systems Group (http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/World/Research.DS/) in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Ulm is seeking an international researcher at MSc level to work on aspects of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Development. The research topic will fit into the scientific context of the group (including Intelligent, Adaptive and Proactive Spoken Language Dialogue Interaction, Semantic Analysis and Dialogue Modelling and Acoustic Speech Signal Preprocessing and Speech Recognition) but will be adapted to the areas of interest of the candidate.

Perspective: PhD Thesis.

Requirements: The position is open to Non-EU nationals only. Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl, VoiceXML, Java, JavaScript and experience with Unix/Linux are highly desirable; expertise in speech and dialogue technologies would also be appreciated.

The appointment (on a grant-basis, co-financed by the Dialogue Systems Group and the German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD) has an initial fixed duration of 24 months, with an opportunity for continuation.

Candidates should send their application by September 30, 2007 electronically to wolfgang.minker@uni-ulm.de. The application should include a short resume, the names of two referees and a transcript of records with the results of exams relevant to the MSc Degree. A pdf-version of the MSc Thesis may also be included.

Wolfgang Minker
University of Ulm
Department of Information Technology
Albert-Einstein-Allee 43
D-89081 Ulm
Phone: +49 731 502 6254/-6251
Fax:   +49 691 330 3925516
http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/World/Research.DS/