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TWO Research positions IN FUTURE INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AT NISLAB, DENMARK

Two 3-year, career-shaping research positions (assistant research professor
or associate research professor) are available at the Natural Interactive
Systems Laboratory (NISLab). The successful candidates will carry out
research on European research projects and assist with project management
of the project(s) they are working on.

NISLab is a research laboratory at the University of Southern Denmark
located in Odense. NISLab carries out research on fundamental and applied
research projects mainly funded by the European Commission. NISLab is also
responsible for the technical (engineering, HCI, computational
communication) part of the teaching at the University's new Graduate School
in Interactive Media which this year will receive about 60 students with a
bachelor's degree. Researchers working on research projects have the
opportunity to do a limited amount of teaching (in English). See
http://www.nis.sdu.dk/projects/ for information about the projects we are
involved in.

We are looking for two researchers who would like to join an
internationally recognised, dynamic and interdisciplinary research team,
contributing to NISLab's research agenda in natural interactive systems
theory and prototyping. In 2000, NISLab leads or is partner in
approximately ten, mostly European, research projects which serve the
vision of ubiquitous natural human-human-system interaction. The working
language at NISLab is English.

Applicants should have the needed qualifications for working on one in
three ongoing research projects or on one in two new projects which are
expected to start towards the end of the year. The three ongoing projects
include CLASS which is about European-wide collaboration on best practice
and architectures for the natural interactive systems of the future; the
cross-Atlantic ISLE in which NISLab leads the Working Group on Natural and
Multimodal Interactivity; and TODAY'S STORIES which is about video
wearables and video story editing by/for small school children. The two
upcoming projects fall well within NISLab's research area in natural
interactive systems, dealing with the development of a software workbench
for the annotation of full communicative behaviour including speech, facial
expression, gesture etc., and next-generation spoken language dialogue
systems development (for English, German, Italian) combining dialogue
systems and the Internet, respectively.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERTISE: Applicants must have a PhD degree and
research interests, possibly supplemented with other relevant
qualifications and experience, in one or more of the following areas:
·       (spoken) dialogue management,
·       natural language processing,
·       advanced www applications (web speech, ubiquitous/virtual meetings,
summarisation etc.),
·       platforms and architectures for spoken language dialogue
systems/multimodal systems,
·       best practice in multimodal systems engineering,
·       multimodal and cross-modal (speech, gesture, facial expression) corpus
annotation theories and software,
·       usability testing and evaluation of wearables for children.

Programming skills and experience in systems development and evaluation are
highly desirable. We are very much aware that few researchers today have
the necessary background from their training in computer science or
systems engineering, in computational linguistics, or in cognitive science
and HCI to master the domains described above from day one. This is why
we emphasise the career shaping character of the opportunities offered. You
will be trained-by-doing in some of the most exiting areas of the future
use of computing systems.

THE SALARY LEVEL starts at approx. 33.000 Euros per year for a postdoc who
just did a PhD. The salary for senior lecturers goes above 45.000 Euros per
year. In addition, the pension contribution paid by the University starts
at 5.500 Euros per year. Your salary will be determined by the university
based on
seniority. Appointment to the positions will be in accordance with the
salary agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish
Confederation of Professional Associations and the associated
specifications for teaching and research positions at institutions of
higher education. Danish law allows significantly reduced taxation
(non-repayable) for foreigners with a PhD degree during the first three
years of their contract.

LOCATION OF JOB: NISLab, the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory,
University of Southern Denmark - Odense, Denmark (www.nis.sdu.dk). Odense
is about 90 minutes from Copenhagen by road or train and is Denmark's 3rd
largest city. SDU has approx. 14.000 students.

START: As soon as possible. Both posts will be filled as soon as we know
that ongoing contract negotiations with the EC have been successful. We
expect to know that by end September 2000.

Applications will be assessed by a committee.

DEADLINE for applications: Friday 22 September 2000, 12:00.

Applications marked "Position NO. 00320" must be submitted to prof. Bernsen
preferably by email (see contact details below). Applications must include
a CV, a list of publications, two references, and the publications to be
particularly taken into account by the Appointment Committee (you can use
most formats for the latter - .ps, .pdf, MS Word, html, Latex etc. or you
might just provide a URL for the papers).

For more information on the research positions, please contact prof.
Bernsen by phone or email.

Professor Niels Ole Bernsen
Director of the Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
University of Southern Denmark
Main Campus: Odense University
Science Park 10
5230 Odense M
Denmark

Tel. ( +45) 65 50 35 44 (direct)
Fax (+45) 63 15 72 24

email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.nis.sdu.dk

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