foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
March 2001
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Editors:
Linda Shockey, University of Reading, UK
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Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK
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Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK
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Lisa Lim, National University of Singapore
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(New ones marked **)
(date of first appearance follows)
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2 - 3 April 2001. Workshop on Innovation in Speech Processing
(WISP2001). Stratford on Avon, UK.
http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/wisp-2001/ (09/00)
5 - 7 April 2001. PTLC2001: The second meeting of the Phonetics
Teaching and Learning Conference. Royal Holloway College,
University of London. [log in to unmask];
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/ptlc.htm (08/00)
** 5 - 7 April 2001. LAGB Spring Meeting. University of Leeds.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/events.htm (03/01)
9 - 11 April 2001. Hands-Free Speech Communication. An ISCA
Tutorial and Research Workshop. Kyoto Japan.
http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/hsc2001/ (08/00)
18 - 20 May 2001. TAPS 2001: Workshop on Typology of African
Prosodic Systems, University of Bielefeld, Germany (01/01)
** 30 May - 1 June 2001. 3rd INTERNATIONAL PHONOLOGY MEETING OF THE GDR 1954.
Nantes, France.
[log in to unmask] (03/01)
4 - 8 June 2001. 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Chicago, Illinois. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html; [log in to unmask]
(12/00)
3 - 16 June 2001. 4th International Speech Motor Conference.
Nijmegen, Netherlands. http://www.nici.kun.nl/speechmotconf/
(09/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. ORAGE 2001: ORAlity and GEstuality. Aix-en-
Provence, France. [log in to unmask];
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~gevoix/ORAGE2001 (08/00)
18 - 22 June 2001. 2001, A Speaker Odyssey - The Speaker Recognition
Workshop. An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop. The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
http://www.odyssey.westhost.com/ (08/00)
21 - 23 June 2001. TENNET XII. Montreal, Canada.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet
30 June - 2 July, 2001, 'Forensic Linguistics Ten years On - What Future?'
University of Malta. http://home.um.edu.mt/litru/IAFL%20main.htm/ (2/01)
5 - 6 July 2001. Prosody in Processing (PiP). The Utrecht Institute
of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University.
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/pip/ (12/00)
** 6 - 7 July 2001. Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop.
Toulouse, France.
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/ (03/01)
9 - 11 July, 2001, The Neurological Basis of Language, Gronigen.
http://www.let.rug.nl/nbl/ [log in to unmask] (2/01)
19 - 21 July 2001. 3rd UK Language Variation Conference. University
of York, UK. (11/00, 2/01)
** 30 July - 1 August 2001. EUROLAN'01 WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED
ANALYSIS. Iasi, Romania.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html (03/01)
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)
23 - 26 August 2001. PEVOC IV: 4th Pan European Voice Conference.
Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.speech.kth.se/voice/pevoc4/ (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)
3 - 7 September 2001. EUROSPEECH2001 - 7th European Conference on
Speech Communication and Technology. Aalborg, Denmark.
http://eurospeech2001.org (04/00)
10 - 13 September, 2001, TSD 2001, International Conference on
Text, Speech, Dialogue, Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic.
http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001 (2/01)
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)
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.
http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav
Email: [log in to unmask] (03/01)
3 - 7 December 2001. 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
[log in to unmask] (12/00)
3 - 7 June 2002. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html;
[log in to unmask] (12/00)
2 - 6 December 2002. Joint Meeting: 144nd Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, 3rd Iberoamerican Congress of Acoustics and 9th
Mexican Congress on Acoustics. Cancun, Mexico.
http://asa.aip.org/cancun.html (12/00)
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS
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CoNLL-2001
Fifth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop
Toulouse, France, July 6-7, 2001
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/
BACKGROUND
CoNLL is the yearly workshop organized by SIGNLL, the Association for
Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Learning (http://www.aclweb.org/signll/). Previous CoNLL meetings were
held in Madrid (1997), Sydney (1998), Bergen (1999) and Lisbon
(2000). The 2001 event will be held as a two-days workshop at the 39th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
July 6-11, 2001 in Toulouse, France.
This year, a special theme will be the focus of the workshop:
Interaction and Automation in Language Learning Resources
Apart from this special theme, the workshop will accept contributions
about language learning topics, including, but not limited to:
- Computational models of human language acquisition
- Computational models of the origins and evolution of language
- Machine learning methods applied to natural language processing
tasks (speech processing, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
discourse processing, language engineering applications)
- Symbolic learning methods (Rule Induction and Decision Tree
Learning, Lazy Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Analytical
Learning, Transformation-based Error-driven Learning)
- Biologically-inspired methods (Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing)
- Statistical methods (Bayesian Learning, HMM, maximum entropy, SNoW,
Support Vector Machines)
- Reinforcement Learning
- Active learning, ensemble methods, meta-learning
- Computational Learning Theory analyses of language learning
- Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods
- Models of induction and analogy in Linguistics
This year's workshop will also accept submissions for a shared task
(segmenting a text into clauses-clausing).
THE WORKSHOP
Main Session Theme: Interaction and Automation in Language Learning
Resources
The purpose of the special theme is to present and discuss
state-of-the-art learning mechanisms for the automated acquisition of
language resources (dictionaries, ontologies, grammars) or the
automated adaptation of natural language resources/processors to new
domains or languages.
The dimensions of learning that are of interest for this session include:
- The integration of humans/linguists in the learning process
- The structure of the training data
- The kind of knowledge that is learned
- General study of learning methods that are suitable for natural
language related tasks
Lately there have been new learning mechanisms that use either large
amounts of raw data or small sets of carefully constructed tagged
training samples. Learning language can be construed as learning
numbers or parameters for some statistical or symbolic system, or
learning rules assigning structures to input data (or a mix of
those). Learning can be done off-line, which introduces the problem of
interpreting (if needed) the derived knowledge before its use in an
NLP engine; or on-line, which raises user interaction
problems. Different approaches are tailored to solve different kinds
of problems subject to a different balance of requirements (large
vs. small training set, tagged vs. untagged training data, results
needs interpretation or can be used as is, etc.). While this session
aims at presenting the largest panorama of learning techniques, we
encourage submission of work on semi-automated learning techniques
that involve interaction with a human during the learning process or
the intervention of a linguist for interpreting results.
Special Session: Shared Task - Segmenting Text Into Clauses
We invite groups to take part in a shared task: Segmenting a Text Into
Clauses (Clausing). Participating groups will be provided with the
same training and testing material, and will all use the same
evaluation criteria, thus allowing comparison between various learning
technologies. After Chunking, the CoNLL-2000 shared task, Clausing
can be seen as the next step towards a full parsing.
More information on this shared task is available at:
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/clauses/
Invited Session: Learning Computational Grammars
There will be a special session devoted to the presentation and
discussion of results of the EU Learning Computational Grammars
project (Coordinator: John Nerbonne). Project participants include:
the University of Groningen (The Netherlands, coordinator), University
of Antwerp (Belgium), the University of Tuebingen (Germany), SRI
Cambridge (UK), the University College Dublin (Ireland), the
University of Geneva (Switzerland), and Xerox Grenoble (France).
Invited Speaker (to be announced)
SUBMISSIONS
Format for Paper Submissions for Main Session
Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words (Postscript or ASCII) by
April 6, 2001 electronically to the address below. Authors of accepted
abstracts will be invited to produce a full paper to be published in
the proceedings of the workshop, which will be available at the
workshop for participants, and distributed afterwards by the
ACL. Submit main session abstracts to:
Walter Daelemans, [log in to unmask]
Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak.
Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
UIA, University of Antwerp
Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
or
RÈmi Zajac, [log in to unmask]
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
PO Box 30001 Dept. 3CRL
Las Cruces NM 88003
USA
Format For Shared Task Submissions
Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words describing the learning
approach, and your results on the test set by April 6, 2001 to the
address below (preferably by email). A special section of the
proceedings will be devoted to a comparison and analysis of the
results and to a description of the approaches used. Submit shared
task submissions to:
Erik Tjong Kim Sang, [log in to unmask]
Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak
Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
UIA, University of Antwerp
Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Important dates
Deadline for Abstract Submission: April 6, 2001
Deadline for Shared Task Submission: April 6, 2001
Notification: April 27, 2001
Deadline camera-ready full paper: May 16, 2001
Workshop: July 6/7, 2001
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New Ways of Analyzing Variation 30
October 11-14, 2001
Raleigh, North Carolina
Web: http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Deadline for abstracts: Friday, June 1
Deadline for early registration: Friday, September 27
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NWAV 30 will be held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North
Carolina, from Thursday, October 11 through Sunday, October 14, 2001.
NWAV 30 marks the completion of three decades of NWAV and a time to look
ahead. Thus, in addition to the usual array of refereed papers, the
conference will feature colloquia showcasing the work of the next wave of
NWAV scholars. These colloquia will center around language and ethnicity,
sociophonetics, and the multidisciplinary profile of variationist studies.
Special events include a night at the North Carolina State Fair; a
book-launching reception; a special performance in spoken word by Shirlette
Ammons, an award-winning poetry slammer from Mt. Olive, North Carolina;
and a Saturday night banquet honoring a couple of the founders of NWAV,
Roger W. Shuy and Ralph W. Fasold.
Abstracts for papers or poster sessions on all topics in variation studies
and sociolinguistics are invited. Abstracts of 400 words or less
(including bibliography) should be submitted via online submission
(http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/nwav) or e-mail
([log in to unmask]) by June 1, 2001, with notification of
acceptance by August 3. Special arrangements for early submissions by
international scholars applying for travel grants can by made by
contacting [log in to unmask] Registration by
September 27th will be $100 for faculty and $60 for students; onsite
registration will be $125 and $85. The conference will be held at the
Brownstone Hotel, located on Hillsborough St. at the eastern edge of the
NC State campus. A block of 150 rooms has been reserved for NWAV
registrants at a rate of $85 per night (single or double room) plus 12%
tax. Reservations at the special conference rate can be made any time
prior to September 27th, 2001, at 919-828-0811 (FAX 919-828-2788).
NWAV 30 is sponsored by NC State in cooperation with Duke University. For
further information, contact [log in to unmask] or
919-515-4151.
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3rd INTERNATIONAL PHONOLOGY MEETING OF THE GDR 1954
NANTES / FRANCE. 2001 May 30th - June 1st
The research group (GDR) in phonology of the French National Center for
Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.) invites submissions for its 3rd
International Phonology Meeting (30 min. presentation plus 10 min.
discussion).
Scope : any topic related to phonology.
Authors are invited to submit an anonymous abstract not exceeding 2 A4
or US quarto pages. Authors' names and addresses should be sent on a
separate page.
WORKING LANGUAGES : English and French
IMPORTANT DATES :
Deadline for submission : 2001 March 25th
Notification to authors : 2001 April 27th
ORGANISERS :
Jean-Pierre ANGOUJARD ; Sandrine FERRÉ ; Delphine POURIN.
Equipe « Acoustique, Acquisition et Interprétation » (AAI, JE 2220),
Université de Nantes :
Please send submissions to Jean-Pierre ANGOUJARD (electronic submissions
is recommended) :
Jean-Pierre Angoujard
« Acoustique, Acquisition et Interprétation »
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Chemin de la Censive-du-Tertre
BP 81227
44312 NANTES Cedex 3
France
e-mail : [log in to unmask]
Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines
Maître de Conférences en Linguistique
UFR Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Departement de Lettres Modernes
Ch de la Censive du Tertre
B.P. 81227
44036 Nantes cedex 3
Tel perso : o2 40 48 68 56
Tel bureau : 02 40 14 14 36
fax : 02 40 14 13 38
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******* EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP *******
MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS
July 30 - August 1, 2001
Iasi, Romania
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html
Organizers:
Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California
Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh
Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming
increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are
commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or
under development; and corpora annotated for various features of
discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also
available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora
annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and
various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such
as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources
Association.
This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for
multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of
speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural
language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics:
o Research that exploits information on different
linguistic levels;
o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which
information from different layers can be used in
automatic language processing;
o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different
linguistic layers, including means to harmonize
different annotation types and levels;
o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation.
The workshop will be held over three consecutive evenings in
conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and
Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, in Iasi,
Romania. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of
types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement
the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's
main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer
School registration fee.
Information on EUROLAN 2001 is available at
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/
and http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/eurolan/
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Papers should report on original work not previously presented
elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion
and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore,
papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are
acceptable.
Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to
[log in to unmask] with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP
SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text
formats are acceptable.
DATES:
Deadline for receipt of submissions : April 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance : May 1, 2001
Final Paper due : June 1, 2001
Workshop date : July 30 - August 1, 2001
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POSITIONS VACANT
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San Jose State University announces the following position:
Part-time lecturer (one year leave replacement) starting August 23, 2001.
Ph.D. or ABD in Linguistics.
Qualifications: Demonstrated ability to teach the following: both articulatory
and acoustic phonetics with emphasis on teaching production and perception of
the sounds of languages of the world; beginning and advanced phonology,
including phonological universals and
experimental phonology. Awareness of and sensitivity to the educational needs
of a multicultural population.
Preference given to those engaged in scholarly activities.
Responsibilities: Teach courses in linguistics at the undergraduate and
graduate
level.Hold regular office hours.
Salary and Range:commensurate with rank and experience.
Please submit a letter of application, current C.V., a transcript of graduate
course work, three
letters of recommendation, and teaching evaluations to:
Dr. Thom Huebner, Chair, Dept of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose
State University, San Jose CA 95192-0093.
The position will remain open until filled, but please reply before April 2,
2001.
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PhD Studentships in Speech and Language Sciences (including disorders)
Starting September 2001.
The University College is allocating funded PhD studentships of £6,555 p.a
(plus a discretionary allowance of up to £1800 p.a and assistance with
additional research expenses).
For further information please contact the named person or for an
application form : Human Resources, Queen Margaret University College,
Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 8TS (0131 317 3291 - 24 hours) to whom the
completed application forms should be returned by Friday 30 March 2001.
We welcome applications for studentships in the following areas:
Research Area: Speech and Language Sciences (including disorders)
Topic: The acquisition of prosody in monolingual and bilingual children
Contact: Dr Ineke Mennen. phone: 0131- 317-3757. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference No: SLS/1
Topic: Integrated assessment of non-verbal behaviour in normal and
disordered communication
Contact: Dr Janet Beck. phone: 0131-317-3164. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference No: SLS/2
Topic: Non-verbal behaviour following right hemisphere stroke and in a
normally ageing population
Contact: Dr Janet Beck. phone: 0131- 317-3164. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference No: SLS/3
Topic: Dynamic tongue modelling as an aid to surgical intervention
Contact: Dr Alan Wrench. phone: 0131- 317- 3692. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference No: SLS/4
Topic: Contemporary aspects of the phonetics and phonology of Scottish
English: an experimental socio-phonetic approach
Contact: Dr Jim Scobbie. phone: 0131- 317- 3692. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Reference No: SLS/5
http://sls.qmced.ac.uk
http://www.qmuc.ac.uk
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ONE POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AND TWO PHD STUDENTSHIPS, NIJMEGEN/UTRECHT,
NETHERLANDS
Applications are invited for the above positions, funded by a Dutch
Research Council (NWO) program grant. The program investigates the
acquisition of phonological representations in the lexicon and the role of
these representations in perception and production. It aims at tracking the
development of the phonology of voicing (including its morphological
alternations) in Dutch children ranging from infancy to the age of 5 years.
The research involves perception and production experiments, and analyses
of corpora of both children?s speech and infant-directed speech. The
program includes three subprojects, each focusing on one developmental
stage. The senior researchers involved in the project are Rene Kager
(Utrecht) and Paula Fikkert, Anne Cutler and Daniel Swingley (Nijmegen).
PROJECT I: a 3 year post-doc based at Nijmegen University, studying
phonotactic knowledge in Dutch infants. The emphasis will be on the
perception of voicing contrasts, word segmentation and the role of input in
acquiring phonotactics. Research will identify phonotactic regularities
concerning Dutch voicing which are available to infants, and will ascertain
how much of this information infants actually acquire and use for word
segmentation. The project involves (a) computational analyses of
statistics of voicing regularities in the child's input, and (b) perceptual
experiments with infants.
Applicants for this position must have a completed PhD and preferably have
given evidence of ability to publish research findings. The successful
candidate will have a background in an experimental discipline, such as
psycholinguistics, speech perception, language acquisition research, or
laboratory phonology. In addition, experience with child language research
(especially infant perception studies), experience with computational
analyses of corpora, and knowledge of the Dutch language would be useful
attributes. Salary: minimally NLG 5854 (monthly) and maximally NLG 8044,
depending on the successful candidate?s qualifications.
PROJECT II: a 4-year position funding study towards a PhD at Nijmegen
University, investigating development of phonological contrasts in the
lexicon by Dutch children aged between 1 and 3 years. The project involves
perception and production experiments with young children, and acoustic and
phonological analyses of children's speech.
PROJECT III: a 4-year position funding study towards a PhD at Utrecht
University, focussing on acquisition of morphophological alternations in
Dutch children of ages 2;6 until early school age. Methods will include
experimental elicitation of plurals, perception tests, and database
research.
Applicants for either of the two PhD positions must have native or
near-native competence in Dutch, and must have completed undergraduate
study in phonetics, phonology or psycholinguistics. Salary: minimally NLG
3055 (monthly) in the first year up to maximally NLG 4362 in the fourth
year.
The closing date for applications March 12, 2001. The starting date is as
soon as possible within 2001. Applicants should send a full CV (and in the
case of the postdoc position, supporting publications) and arrange for two
letters of reference to be sent to:
For projects I and II:
Dr. Paula Fikkert
Dutch Department
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
Postbus 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
Netherlands
Refer to vacaturenummer 04.50.01 (position I) or 04.50.02 (position II)
For project III:
Dhr. Toon van Fulpen
Faculteit der Letteren
Kromme Nieuwegracht 46
3512 HJ Utrecht
Netherlands
Refer to vacaturenummer 68105
Further information from:
Rene Kager or Paula Fikkert
[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/~Rene.Kager/personal/
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Rank of Job: Computational Linguist - Phonetic Lexicographer
University or Organization: Conversay
Department: Core Engineering
State or Province: Washington, USA
Final Date of Application: ongoing
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:15375 NE 90th Street, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Conversay. Speech for a World in Motion
Conversay is fundamentally changing the way people worldwide access
their online data. We help them talk to it. No mouse. No keyboard.
We're a Redmond-based company dedicated to enabling interactive voice
access to Internet-based information, using natural spoken language:
anywhere, anytime, on any device, from any network. Today. It's a
tech revolution waiting to happen. Come be a part of it.
We are team-oriented, resourceful, reliable, and believe in taking
qrisks. We offer excellent benefits, including pre-IPO stock options,
fully paid health insurance for entire family, and a casual work
environment where successes both great and small are celebrated.
Computational Linguist - Phonetic Lexicographer
Job Description
The successful candidate will be responsible for phonetic
transcription work in several languages. Duties include: research and
analysis to determine specifications for phonetic processing modules,
research and purchase of lexical resources, creation and maintenance
of lexicons, and analysis of speech and text corpora. The ongoing
results of this work will be used in the development of Conversay's
proprietary speech recognition and synthesis engines.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (including education):
- Ph.D. in Linguistics with focus on empirical phonetic study
- Experience with data and corpus analysis
- Familiarity with Perl or other scripting/programming languages a
strong plus
- Familiarity with use of relational databases a strong plus
- Native (or near-native) speaker of Japanese or Korean a strong plus
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Determine phone sets and transcription standards for lexicons in
several languages
- Determine lexical entries for various application-specific lexicons
- Maintain and update existing lexicons
- Identify issues and requirements for evaluating phonetic output
- Other areas of speech/text collection, analysis, and evaluation as needed
Additional Information:
Must be willing to relocate to the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond (WA) area
Email: [log in to unmask]
Specify the job title of interest.
Visit us on the web at: http://www.conversay.com/careers
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Vision Recruitment
Several positions vacant:
Lead/Senior Computational Linguists
C++ / VB / Java SW Engineers for Speech Recognition
Human Factors Engineers for Speech Recognition
Scientists for Natural Language Programming
Senior Software Engineer C / C++
Junior C/C++ Developer
Research Engineers
Scientists for Text To Speech
Final Date of Application: End of April 2001
For further details contact: Kelly Sutherland
[log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
Suite 45, Surbiton Business Centre,
46 Victoria Road
Surbiton
Surrey KT6 4LJ
UK
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NOTICE: KATRINA HAYWARD
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We have learned with great regret of the death of Dr Katrina Hayward,
Senior Lecturer in the Dept of South-East Asia at SOAS. Colleagues will be
aware of her book, 'Experimental Phonetics', recently published by Longman.
The funeral service will be on Tuesday 6th March in Caernarvon, Wales.
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Material for the April 2001 issue of foNETiks should reach us
by 30 March 2001
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Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
UK
tel: (+44) (0) (1904) 432653
fax: (+44) (0) (1904) 432673
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University of York
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