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foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
August 2001
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore <[log in to unmask]>
E-mail address:
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The foNETiks archive can be found on the WWW at:
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Visit the IPA web page at:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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12 - 16 August 2001. 5th International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT):
Voice and Identity - Singing the Music of the World. Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.siba.fi/5ICVT/ (12/00)
22 - 24 August 2001. Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages.
University of Siegen, Germany. <[log in to unmask]> (06/01)
23 - 26 August 2001. PEVOC IV: 4th Pan European Voice Conference.
Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.speech.kth.se/vo (12/00)
29 - 30 August 2001. Adaptation methods in Automatic Speech Recognition.
An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. Sophia Antipolis, France.
http://www.eurecom.fr/ITRW/ (12/00)
29 - 31 August 2001. DiSS'01: Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. An ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/DISS-01/ (12/00)
** 29 August - 1 September 2001. 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
on Speech Synthesis. Atholl Palace Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland.
http://www.ssw4.org/ (08/01)
1 - 6 September 2001. WSES Intern.Conf. on: Speech, Signal and Image
Processing 2001 (SSIP 2001). Malta.
http://www.worldses.org/wses/conferences/malta/ssip (07/01)
3 - 7 September 2001. EUROSPEECH2001 - 7th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology. Aalborg, Denmark. http://eurospeech2001.org
(04/00)
4 - 6 September 2001. Linguistic Society of Great Britain meeting.
University of Reading, England.
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB/conferences.html; <[log in to unmask]>
(06/01)
10 - 13 September 2001. TSD 2001: International Conference on Text,
Speech, Dialogue. Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic.
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 (02/01)
13 - 15 September 2001. 2nd International Workshop on Models and Analysis
of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications. Firenze, Italy.
http://www.die.unifi.it/Conferences/maveba2001/home.htm (12/00)
3 - 5 October 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
Processing. Cannes, France. http://mmsp01.eurecom.fr/ (08/00)
6 - 8 October 2001. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition.
Carry-le-Rouet, Marseilles, France.
http://www.lscp.net/persons/peperkamp/workshop.html (05/01)
7 - 10 October 2001. XXVII Deutscher Romanistentag. Muenchen.
<[log in to unmask]> (10/00)
11 - 14 October 2001. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 30. Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA. http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav;
<[log in to unmask]> (03/01)
** 22 - 24 October 2001. Prosody and Speech Recognition 2001: Prosody in
Speech Recognition and Understanding. Molly Pitcher Inn, Red Bank, NJ.
http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/conferences/prosody/ (08/01)
29 - 31 October 2001. SPECOM-2001. Moscow, Russia.
<[log in to unmask]> (06/01)
3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/00)
** 9 - 13 December 2001. 2001 International Workshop on Automatic Speech
Recognition and Understanding. Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy.
http://asru01.itc.it/ (08/01) (See below under CONFERENCES for further
information.)
11 - 13 December 2001. IRCS Workshop on Linguistic Databases. University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ (05/01)
13 - 15 December 2001. XII Giornate GFS-AIA (Gruppo di Fonetica
Sperimentale - Associazione Italiana di Acustica): La fonetica acustica
come strumento di analisi della variazione linguistica in Italia (Acoustic
phonetics as a tool for the analysis of linguistic variation
in Italy). Macerata, Italy. http://www.unimc.it/gfs2001/; <[log in to unmask]>
(07/01)
** 27 February - 1 March 2002. Prosody - Regional Variation, Social
Variation, and Multilingualism. Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the
DGfS (German Linguistics Association). Mannheim, Germany.
http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html (08/01)
(See below under CONFERENCES for further information.)
** 25 - 27 March 2002. 2002 Colloquium of the British Association of
Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (08/01) (See below
under CONFERENCES for further information.)
** 11-13 April 2002. SPEECH PROSODY 2002. Aix-en-Provence, France.
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02/sp2002.htm;
<[log in to unmask]> (08/01) (See below under CONFERENCES for further
information.)
8 - 10 April 2002. Temporal Integration of Speech, ISCA Workshop.
Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~tips/;
<[log in to unmask]> (06/01)
3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
<[log in to unmask]> (12/00)
** 17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/ (08/01)
2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144th Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Acoustics and 9th Mexican Congress
on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico. http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00)
** 3-9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Conference of Phonetic
Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/ (08/01) (See
below under CONFERENCES for further information.)
** 1 - 4 September 2003. EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on
Speech Communication and Technology. Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.isca-speech.org/conferences.html (actual website under
construction) (08/01)
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
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2001 International Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding
Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), Italy
9 - 13 December 2001
http://asru01.itc.it/
The 2001 IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
(ASRU) is the seventh of a series of biannual workshops sponsored by the
IEEE Signal Processing Society. The workshop will focus on recent advances
and new paradigms and systems for automatic speech recognition and
understanding.
During the last decade, speech interface technology has advanced to a
point that it is no longer considered academic research only. The
increasing interest in bringing speech recognition technology to
real-world field applications suggests to organize a workshop where
students and researchers from academia and industry are stimulated to
collaborate and discuss on problems of common interest. This year the
technical program will comprise three keynotes, six sessions, three panel
discussions and a demo night.
Several outstanding speakers will be invited to contribute to the success
of each session, bringing their experience and providing their vision
about the future of this technology. Poster sessions will then allow to
every attendee the presentation of his/her research activity.
Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:
- Wireless ASR, Distributed Speech Recognition and Hands-Free Interaction
- ASR Robustness: Feature Extraction, Acoustic Modeling and Adaptation
- Broadcast News, Digital Archives and Audio-Video Information Retrieval
- Large Vocabulary: Language Modeling and Speech Understanding
- Multilinguality and Speech - to - Speech Translation
- Dialogue systems: Voice Agents, Applications and Field Trials
Attendance will be limited (about 180 participants) with priority given to
those who submit written technical contributions and to companies and
universities who will contribute to the demo night on the evening of
Tuesday 11th. In cooperation with ISCA (the International Speech
Communication Association), the workshop will also allocate a limited
number of student grants to qualified applicants. There will be no on-site
registration, and we strongly encourage early registration as it will give
us the possibility of estimating as soon as possible the number of
participants, in order to provide the best organization both at the
workshop site and for what concerns connections from/to the airports. For
those who will register in advance and then have their paper rejected,
there will be anyway the possibility of withdrawing without any penalty.
All papers must be submitted electronically in either PostScript or PDF
format, according to the instructions given in the Author's Info page.
DEADLINES
August 15, 2001 Electronic submission of 4 page full papers
September 1 Super early registration, before
October 1 Notification of acceptance
October 15 Advance registration, before
Alex Acero and Maurizio Omologo
General Co-Chairs of ASRU 2001
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Call for Papers:
PROSODY - REGIONAL VARIATION, SOCIAL VARIATION, AND MULTILINGUALISM
Workshop at the 24th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (German Linguistics
Association) February 27 - March 1, 2002, Mannheim, Germany.
Invited speakers (preliminary list):
Jennifer Fitzpatrick (University of Tuebingen)
Esther Grabe (University of Oxford)
Martine Grice (University of Saarbruecken)
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Margret Selting (University of Potsdam)
The workshop will aim to get researchers from different fields presenting
recent work on prosodic variation and the role of prosody in a
multilingual context.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* intonational/prosodic variation of languages (intonational typology)
* intonational/prosodic variation of regional varieties
* sociolinguistic factors contributing to intonational/prosodic variation
* stylistic variation of intonation/prosody
* intonation/prosody in language contact
* intonation/prosody in multilinguals
* theoretical implications of research on prosodic variation
Abstracts should be sent electronically to
[log in to unmask]
or on paper to
Joerg Peters
Universitaet Potsdam
Institut fuer Germanistik
Postfach 601553
14415 Potsdam
Germany
E-mail submission, with plain-text abstracts in the body of the message,
is strongly preferred.
Presentations are limited to 20 min. (+ 10 min. discussion).
Schedule:
Abstract submissions (1 page) August 24, 2001
Notification of acceptance September 14, 2001
For general information on the Annual Meeting of the DGfS please take a
look at:
http://www.dgfs-home.de/DGfS-Mitteilungen/MIT53WWW/mit53www.html
Organization:
Peter Gilles (University of Freiburg)
Joerg Peters (University of Potsdam)
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Preliminary Announcement
Please note for your diaries that the 2002 Colloquium of the British
Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) will be held in Newcastle upon
Tyne from 25th - 27th March 2002.
Further details will be issued early in the Autumn.
With best regards,
Gerry Docherty
(organiser of BAAP 2002)
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SPEECH PROSODY 2002
International Conference
Aix-en-Provence, France, 11-13 April 2002
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02/sp2002.htm
Email: <[log in to unmask]>
Overview
Speech Prosody 2002 will be an international conference aiming to bring
together researchers working in all areas of the field of speech prosody.
It will provide a natural forum for scientific exchange both for
established workers in the field and for those who are new to the area and
wish to get up to date on this exciting and rapidly expanding field.
The conference is organised by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS,
Universit de Provence, Aix-en-Provence under the aegis of SProSIG, the
Speech Prosody Special Interest Group, with the support of The
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It will be held in
conjunction with the ISCA international workshop Temporal Integration in
the Perception of Speech (TIPS).
Format
Duration: three days.
The conference will be organised in nine sessions with one oral session
each morning and one each afternoon, together with one poster session held
in the middle of each day. There will be no parallel sessions.
Each oral session will be organised around a specific topic and will
consist of
* a keynote lecture
* two invited discussions
* general discussion
* submitted oral presentations
There will be a coffee/tea break in the middle of each oral session.
Poster sessions will be held in the middle of each day. These sessions are
designed to allow participants to divide their time as they wish between
the posters, lunch, discussion and resting.
Oral-session topics
i. Prosody and linguistic typology
ii. Prosody and the brain
iii. Prosody and emotions
iv. Prosody and syntactic/semantic/pragmatic interpretation.
v. Prosody and the lexicon
vi. Prosody and speech technology
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Call for papers
Papers are invited presenting original work in any area of the field of
speech prosody. The majority of accepted papers will be presented in the
poster sessions which provide more opportunities for discussion.
Participants will be invited to indicate whether they wish their paper to
be considered for oral presentation in one of the six oral sessions.
The deadline for submission of a full 4 page text for the meeting will be
November 1st 2001.
Papers will be reviewed by at least two anonymous referees under the
responsibility of members of the International Scientific Committee and
the local Organising Committee.
Registration
The cost of the workshop is expected to be in the region of 200 Euros.
This includes registration, tea and coffee and the conference proceedings
in both paper and CD format. There will be reductions for ISCA members,
for students and for early payments.
Important dates
* 1 Nov 2001 Submission of full 4 page texts
* 15 Dec 2001 Notification of acceptance
Announcement list
to receive regular news about this event, please send an empty message to:
[log in to unmask]
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Organisation and committees
Honorary President: Mario Rossi
Chairman: Daniel Hirst
Organising committee:
Cyril Auran
Bernard Bel
Philippe Blache
Genevive Caelen-Haumont
Nick Campbell
Albert Di Cristo
Danielle Duez
Martine Faraco
Christel Portes
Joel Pynte
International Scientific Committee:
Vronique Auberg, France
Cinzia Avesani, Italy
Antois Botinis, Greece
Gsta Bruce, Sweden
Cao Jianfen, China
Anne Cutler, Netherlands
Christophe d'Alessandro, France
Grazyna Demenko, Poland
Gunnar Fant, Sweden
Janet Fletcher, Australia
Sonia Frta, Portugal
Dafydd Gibbon, Germany
Carlos Gussenhoven, Netherlands
Wolfgang Hess, Germany
Keikichi Hirose, Japan
Merle Horne, Sweden
Joaquim Llisterri, Spain
Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, Thailand
Kikuo Maekawa, Japan
Phlippe Martin, Canada
Piet Mertens, Belgium
Bernd Moebius, Germany
Alex Monaghan, UK
Elsa Mora, Venezuela
Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Ireland
Cesar Reis, Brazil
Lisa Selkirk, USA
Jacqueline Vaissire, France
Jan van Santen, USA
Jacques Terken, Netherlands
Stefan Werner, Finland
Brigitte Zellner-Keller, Switzerland
Contact: <[log in to unmask]>
Homepage: <http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/aix02/sp2002.htm>
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7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002)
Denver, Colorado
September 17 - 20, 2002
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 7th International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-2002), to be held in
Denver, Colorado in September 17 -- 20, 2002. ICSLP-2002 is being
organized by educators, researchers, scientists, and engineers from The
Center for Spoken Language Processing (CSLR), Dept. of Speech, Language
and Hearing Sciences (University of Colorado Boulder), and W.G. Voice
Research Center (Denver Center for the Performing Arts). Significant
support is also coming from additional University and Industry affiliates.
Previous ICSLPs have been held in Kobe - Japan, Banff - Canada, Yokohama -
Japan, Philadelphia - PA.USA, Sydney - Australia, and Beijing - China.
Following their lead, ICSLP-2002 will again emphasize INTERDISCIPLINARY
efforts in the field of speech science and language technology. We as the
organizing committee are committed to seeing ICSLP-2002 be the strongest
technical interdisciplinary conference for researchers, scientists,
engineers, academics, and industry developers in the field of speech
science and language technology throughout the world. Denver is close to
some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States, with the Colorado
Rocky Mountains as a backdrop. Many top resorts for ski and hiking are
close by (Vail, Aspen, Breckenridge, Telluride, Keystone) offering
excellent opportunities for satellite workshops.
Paper Submission: In order to maintain the highest scientific and
technical quality as well as to ensure that papers are reviewed on their
total scientific contributions, ICSLP-2002 will adopt a process where full
paper submissions are requested with a deadline set approximately six
months in advance of the conference. No paper must exceed 4 pages. Papers
will be submitted electronically via WWW with electronic reviewer feedback
provided for all submissions.
Contact Person: John Hansen, CSLR (Center for Spoken Language Research,
University of Colorado Boulder) is chairing ICSLP-2002.
Contact information: [log in to unmask], Phone: (+1) 303-735-5148,
Fax: (+1) 303-735-5072.
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Preliminary Announcement
The website for the next International Conference of Phonetic Sciences in
Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003, is http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
Maria Josep Sole
Co-chair of the ICPhS 2003
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POSITIONS VACANT
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University of Oxford
Phonetics Laboratory and
Committee for Comparative Philology and General Linguistics
Junior Lectureship in Phonetics and Phonology
Applications are invited for a Junior Lecturership in Phonetics and
Phonology for a fixed period of one year from 1st October 2001. The
successful candidate will contribute to teaching and research in phonetics
and phonology under the direction of Dr. J. Coleman, Reader in Phonetics
and Director of the Phonetics Laboratory. Salary will be in the range
16,775 - 17,755 per annum (currently under review). Applicants should
preferably have a higher degree in phonetics or in linguistics with a
specialism in phonetics and phonology.
The post will involve both research and extensive class teaching of
phonetics and phonology for first-year undergraduates; previous teaching
experience will be an advantage. Applicants are advised to obtain a copy
of the further particulars from Mrs. E. Marston, Secretary to the
Committee for Comparative Philology and General Linguistics, 37 Wellington
Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF, or from the Phonetics Laboratory web site
(http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/fp.html) before applying. Applications (in six
copies, but only one for candidates outside the European Union) should
reach Mrs. Marston at the above address on or before 3rd August 2001. They
should involve a full curriculum vitae, a statement about teaching
experience and research interests, and the names and addresses of three
referees. Applicants should ask referees to write directly to Mrs. E.
Marston at the address above before the closing date. Informal enquiries
may be made to Dr. Coleman by email ([log in to unmask]). It is
expected that short-listed candidates will be interviewed in the week
beginning 20th August 2001.
John Coleman
Director, Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory,
41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, UK
Home page: http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/
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Applications are invited for an Assistant Professorship (Kooshi or
Jokyooju in Japanese) in Phonology starting April 1, 2002.
Applicants should have a PhD (or near completion) in Linguistics. The
post will involve teaching both general English courses and Linguistics
courses. PhD is required to teach graduate courses. Applicants should
have strong qualifications in teaching and research. Japanese language
reading and speaking abilities are highly desirable for full participation
in administrative duties.
Applicants should submit an application letter, full curriculum vitae
inJapanese, sample research papers, and the names of two references with
contact information. Hard copies only please. The application deadline
is September 21, 2001.
Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin Daigaku) is a highly competitive private
women's college founded in 1873 by American missionaries in the suburb of
Kobe-Osaka area. The college offers both undergraduate and graduate
programs in Literature, Linguistics, Cultures, Human Sciences, and Music.
For further information please see our homepage at
http://www.kobe-c.ac.jp/.
Contact: Kazuhiko Tajima [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
Phonology Search Committee, Dept. of English, Kobe College, 4-1
Okadayama
Nishinomiya
Hyogo 662-8505
JAPAN
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Announcement: Open-Rank Position in Phonology at UCLA
Contingent on budgetary approval the UCLA Linguistics Department has been
authorized to conduct an open-rank search for a specialist in phonology,
to fill a possible faculty opening starting 7/1/2002. Applicants should
have strong qualifications in teaching and research.
Applicants should submit an application letter, CV, and sample research
papers; and should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent.
Applications should be addressed to:
Phonology Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
We can accept applications electronically, but only in pdf or plain text
format. Such applications should be sent to Bruce Hayes
<[log in to unmask]>.
The application deadline is November 20, 2001. We expect to interview
candidates at the LSA meeting Jan. 3-6, 2002 in San Francisco.
UCLA is an equal opportunity employer.
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California
invites applications for a Lecturer for a 1st semester graduate course in
Phonology to be taught fall term 2001, beginning August 27, 2001.
The candidate must have completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in
Linguistics with a specialization in Phonology. Candidates are requested
to submit a curriculum vitae, and the names of two references with contact
information to:
Linda Culver <[log in to unmask]>
OR
Phonology Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
GFS 301
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089 1693
USA
Email applications are strongly encouraged. Review of applications will
begin immediately and applications will continue to be considered until
the position is filled.
The University of Southern California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
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Work with a team of dialog designers and engineers to design and develop
voice user interface applications, products and tools. Job duties will
include: designing dialogs, programming in Voice XML, writing voice
recognition grammars, working with voice talent to records audio files,
training others in how to design voice user interface systems that sound
linguistically natural and have personality.
The ideal candidate will be a native English speaker and will have well
developed analytic and problem solving skills. Sensitivity to
conversational language, ideally with linguistic training (i.e. discourse,
pragmatics, phonetics/phonology, etc.). Ability to organize and convey
information to a group (i.e. business consulting/training and/or academic
teaching experience). Must be a professional team player who is also able
to take on new challenges and responsibilities. Programming experience in
Voice XML, JSP, Java is highly desirable. Web development experience a
plus. Acting, directing, or script-writing/ creative writing a plus.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Linguistics preferred.
Contact: Human Resources [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
420 N. Mary Avenue
Sunnyvale
CA 94085
USA
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JOB TITLE: Linguistic Developer German/English
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Speech as part of the normal interface to computers is the future. If you
want to see the results of your work on every Windows PC, work for Lernout
& Hauspie Speech Products, an international leader in the development of
advanced language technology, including dictation/speech recognition.
We're seeking talented linguists and computational linguists with the
vision and skills to contribute as we accelerate the development of the
next generation of voice-enabled computing.
The Language Development Department of Lernout & Hauspie is looking for a
Linguistic Developer for German/English. We are seeking a candidate to
use in-house tools to clean and analyze text and lexical data for
statistical language models, and to participate in building and testing
product language models. You will contribute to German and English
language products used on desktop PCs, enterprise-wide systems, and
hand-held devices.
Other tasks include transcription work of recorded speech, which will
mainly be conducted in English. It is therefore essential that the
candidate possess excellent language skills in English.
The successful candidate will be organized and detail-oriented, and have a
passion for language. S/he should be a quick learner, and able to work
independently and with multilingual teams to meet tight product deadlines.
S/he should be familiar with MS-DOS, Windows, and standard PC
applications, and comfortable working with a variety of data formats.
Candidate must be native German speaker, raised in a German-speaking
country. Must have University degree in Linguistics, German, or related
field; an editorial background is helpful. Knowledge of Perl and/or
Python, or other scripting or programming languages a plus.
Responsibilities include:
- Maintaining and improving German and English lexicons with
pronunciations and part of speech information.
- Preparing and maintaining large volumes of text data
- Developing high coverage German and English Language Models
(LMs), using language model production tools
- Assisting in accuracy testing of German and English language
models
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Native German speaker, raised in German-speaking country
- Near-native English speaker
- Computer-literate with familiarity with standard PC applications
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to interact with both technical and non-computer
professionals
- BS/BA in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer
Science, German, or other relevant field
This position offers room for growth, and a attractive benefits package.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Please send your resume to: [log in to unmask]
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CORPUS AVAILABLE
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Dear colleagues,
Thank you for your response to the release of the IViE Corpus (for
information about the corpus, please read the IViE summary below). We have
had almost 60 requests for the CD-ROM version of the corpus, and we will
send out the CDs and the documentation to those of you who have written to
us within the next two weeks. Unfortunately, our research budget does not
allow us to make any further sets. Therefore, we have set up two on-line
versions of the corpus:
1: Download page
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/ivyweb/download1.html
The corpus has been divided into 45 packages, one for each speaking style
from each variety. Please use this page to download as little or as much
from the corpus as you would like (but please note the disclaimer below).
2: On-line audio page
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/ivyweb/search.html
This page allows you to listen to the data in the corpus and to download
individual files. The files can be sorted by variety, speaking style sand
speaker gender. As on the download page, the complete set of data from the
corpus are available here.
IViE homepage
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/ivyweb/)
ESRC grant R000237145
Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
1997-2002
Esther Grabe, Brechtje Post and Francis Nolan
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Disclaimer
The IViE corpus and the associated documentation are copyrighted. The
speech data and the texts cannot be copied or distributed in any format
unless this paragraph is included. The speech data are available to any
interested user, but only for non-commercial use. The ESRC and the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge make no warranty and accept no
liability associated with the use of these materials.
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About the IViE Corpus
The IViE corpus contains data from nine modern or mainstream dialects of
English spoken in the British Isles in five speaking styles. The data
allow for investigations of cross-varietal and stylistic variation in
English intonation (IViE = Intonational Variation in English).
Varieties of English: Belfast English, Bradford Punjabi English,
Cambridge, Cardiff (Welsh-English bilingual speakers), Dublin, London
(speakers of West Indian descent), Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle.
Speaking styles: Conversations, map task, read text & retold version of
the same text, controlled sentences.
Speakers: 12 speakers from each variety, 6 male, 6 female. 16 years of
age. Data recorded in local secondary schools.
Total duration: 36 hours of speech
Format: .wav
The corpus is available free of charge.
NB: A subsection of the corpus will be published with prosodic annotations
later this year, also on CD-ROM (6.5 hours of speech).
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Dr. Esther Grabe, http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~esther/
Department of Phonetics, University of Oxford and Linguistics, Cambridge
Phonetics Laboratory, 41 Wellington Square, University of Oxford, OX1 2JF
Tel. +44 1865 270446
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JOBS SERVICE
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Subject: Jobs service in the Speech Technology Network
Dear Subscriber,
You might be interested to know that the Speech Technology Network (STN)
has a new service for all our users: you can now browse available
positions in speech technology, as well as list yourself as an applicant
for free. Our aim is to have global and comprehensive listings, so please
spread the word about this new feature!
To view current vacancies and applicants please go to
http://www.speechtechnology.net/Jobs/
If you have a vacancy you would like to advertise through STN, please send
an email to Denise Capello (mailto:[log in to unmask]). Please
note that vacancy advertising has a small fee attached to it.
You are also invited to take a look at our much improved discussion
environment (go to http://www.speechtechnology.net and click on the
'DISCUSSIONS' button on the top bar). If you'd like to suggest a new
conference, please let me know! I hope you'll enjoy participating!
Kind regards,
Minna Kanerva
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Community Manager Speech Technology Network
VercomNet - Communications & Technology
Maastricht, The Netherlands
For the latest issue of the Speech Technology Expert please go to:
http://epublications.vercomnet.com/Speech/
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Material for the September 2001 issue of foNETiks should reach us by 30
August 2001.
Lisa Lim
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Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore tel +65 8746037
Block AS5, 7 Arts Link fax +65 7732981
Singapore 117570 e-mail [log in to unmask]
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