foNETiks
A network newsletter
for the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
June 2002
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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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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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20 - 22 June 2002. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology
(TENNET XIII). Montreal, Canada. http://www.uqam.ca/tennet;
[log in to unmask] (12/01)
23 June - 6 July 2002. NATO International Scientific Exchange Programme:
Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception. Il Ciocco, Italy.
http://www.ebire.org/earlab/asi2002.html (11/01)
24 June - 24 July 2002. Summer 2002. Spoken Language: Synthesis and
Intonation. Ohio State University.
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/events/SU2002 (04/02)
27 - 28 June 2002. Conference on English Phonology. Toulouse, France.
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/acadepts/humarts/english/toulouse.htm (12/01)
27 - 30 June 2002. LabPhon 8. Eighth Conference on Laboratory
Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence. New Haven, CT, USA.
http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8; [log in to unmask]
(12/01)
11 July 2002. Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Info at
http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/maxwell/MorphologyLearning.html/ [note
new date: 03/02] (02/02)
2 - 6 September 2002. Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 (LP2002). Meikai
University, Urayasu, Japan. <[log in to unmask]> (12/01)
6 - 7 September 2002. Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology,
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota. <[log in to unmask]>
(01/02)
7-20 September 2002. ICSLP'2002 - 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.http://www.icslp2002.org/ (04/02)
11-13 September 2002. IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis. A
satellite event of ICSLP 2002 (see entry above). Santa Monica, CA, USA.
http://www.research.att.com/conf/ttsworkshop/ (04/02)
14-15 September 2002. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation for Spoken Language
Technology. Aspen Lodge, Estes Park, Colorado, USA.
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/pmla2002 (04/02)
14 - 16 September 2002. The 3rd Biennial ICVPB: International
Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. Denver, USA. [Held
in conjunction with the 7th ICSLP, also in Denver -- see next entry]
http://www.nwu.edu/csd/ICVPB/ (12/01)
##17 - 19 September 2002. Linguistics Association of Great Britain meeting,
Manchester, UK. [log in to unmask] http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/
LAGB/ (6/02)
17 - 20 September 2002. ICSLP-2002: 7th International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing. Denver, USA.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/icslp2002/
(08/01)
1 - 3 November, 2002. 9th International Phonology Meeting, Vienna.
[log in to unmask]
http://www.univie.ac.at.linguistics/conferences/phon02/ (02/02)
8 - 10 November, 2002. Symposium on Chinese Linguistics (Tone),
Institute of Linguistics, Taiwan. <[log in to unmask]> (02/02)
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)
##9 - 11 January 2003. Old World Conference in Phonology I (Segmental
Phonology). http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/ocp1/ (6/02)
21 - 24 January 2003. 8th International Symposium on Social
Communication. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
<[log in to unmask]> (03/02)
##27 - 29 March 2003. International Colloquium on Prosodic Interfaces,
Nantes, France. [log in to unmask] (6/02)
3 - 9 August 2003. ICPhS 2003: 15th International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. http://shylock.uab.es/icphs/
(08/01)
11 - 15 August, 2003. Fourth World Congress on Fluency Disorders,
Montreal, Canada. http://www/ifacongress2003.com (05/02)
September 2003. 4th UK Language Variation and Change Conference.
University of Sheffield, UK. (04/02)
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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LAGB Autumn Meeting 2002: UMIST
First Circular and Call for Papers
The 2001 Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great
Britain will be held at UMIST, from September 17 to 19. The local
organiser is Paul Bennett <[log in to unmask]>.
The conference website is at: http://mull.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/lagb/
Manchester, host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, is at the heart of
the largest urban area in the north of England. Cultural attractions
include the recently-refurbished City Art Gallery, the Museum of
Science and Industry, and the Lowry in nearby Salford. The city centre
includes a sizeable Chinatown and the famous Gay Village, plus the
renovated canal area of Castlefield. The Peak District and Pennines
are areas of natural beauty close by.
Accommodation: The UMIST campus is fairly compact. Accommodation will
be in en-suite rooms just a few minutes' walk away from where the
sessions will take place, and also within walking distance of the
restaurants, bars and clubs of central Manchester.
Travel: UMIST is situated on the edge of the city centre, and is very
easy to reach. Trains from London Euston take about 2hrs 40mins to
Manchester Piccadilly station, which is only five minutes' walk from
the campus; there are also regular train services from most major
British cities. Manchester is easily accessible via the motorway
network (M6, M62). Manchester International Airport is ten miles from
the city centre, and is served by flights from most major European
airports and by regular shuttles to Heathrow and Gatwick; there is a
train service from the airport station to Manchester Piccadilly
(usually at least four trains an hour, taking c. 20 minutes).
Events:
The Henry Sweet Lecture 2002 will be delivered by Professor Anthony
Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) and is entitled: 'Variation and
Change in the Historical Syntax of English'.
There will also be a Workshop on Quantitative and corpus-based
perspectives on the morpho-syntactic history of English.
A Language Tutorial on Romani will be given by Dr Yaron Matras
(University of Manchester).
There will be a Linguistics at School Session on Community Languages,
organised by Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta (University of Leeds).
Enquiries about the LAGB meeting should be sent to the Meetings
Secretary (address below). Full details of the programme will be
included in the Second Circular, to be sent out in June.
Call for Papers:
You are invited to offer papers for the Meeting. The LAGB welcomes
submissions on any topic in the field of linguistics; papers are
selected on their (perceived) merits, and not according to their
subject matter or assumed theoretical framework.
How and when to submit an abstract
Abstracts must be submitted on paper (not by email or by fax). FIVE
anonymous copies of the abstract, plus ONE with name and affiliation,
i.e. CAMERA-READY, should be submitted, and should be sent to the
President (address below) in the format outlined below. You must write
your address for correspondence (email or surface) on the BACK of the
camera-ready copy. (Even if several authors are named on the front,
there should be only one name and address for correspondence.)
Abstracts should be accompanied by an indication of any special
requirements regarding audiovisual equipment (other than an OHP).
Papers for the programme are selected anonymously - only the President
knows the name of the authors. Where possible, authors should supply
an email address to which the committee's decision may be sent.
Abstracts must arrive by June 14. Abstracts may also be submitted now
for the meeting after the next one, but must be clearly marked as
such. (In general the abstract deadlines for the autumn and spring
meetings are soon after 1st June and 1st January respectively, so an
abstract sent to reach the President by that date will always be in
time.)
Format of abstracts
Abstracts must be presented as follows: The complete abstract
(i.e. the one containing your title and your name) must be no longer
than ONE A4 page (21cm x 29.5cm) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all
sides. You may use single spacing but type must be no smaller than 12
point. If the paper is accepted the abstract will be photocopied and
inserted directly into the collection of abstracts sent out to
participants, so the presentation should be clear and clean.
The following layout should be considered as standard:
Optimality and the Klingon vowel shift (title)
Clark Kent (speaker)
[log in to unmask] (email address)
Department of Astrology, Eastern Mars University (institution)
The normal length for papers delivered at LAGB meetings is 25 minutes
(plus 15 minutes discussion).
There is the possibility to submit abstracts for a themed session (or
panel), i.e. groups of speakers can ask for a whole 2-hour themed
session, and can apportion their time within that as they wish. All
the abstracts for such a session will be considered together.
The committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the
successful abstracts, so please indicate on the anonymous abstracts if
you cannot present your paper on either the second or third day of the
conference (18th or 19th September). It is very difficult to
reschedule papers after the programme has been planned.
Content of abstracts
The following guidelines may be useful:
+ You should clearly describe the paper's general topic. (The topic
may be a problem of theory or analysis or set of data which has not
previously been analysed.)
+ You should describe your treatment of the topic, and how it relates
to previous work on the same topic. (When referring to previous work,
it is enough to quote "Author (Date)" without giving full
bibliographical details.) It is not acceptable simply to promise a
solution.
+ You should explain how you will justify your treatment, and quote
crucial evidence - you must trust the committee (and other conference
attenders) not to steal your ideas before you have presented them. If
you are taking a stand on a controversial issue, summarise the
arguments which lead you to take up this position.
Conference Bursaries
Up to 10 bursaries are available for unsalaried members of the
Association (e.g. PhD students) with preference given to those who are
presenting a paper. Applications should be sent to the President, and
must be received by the deadline for abstracts. Please state on your
application: (a) date of joining the LAGB (applicants must have been a
member at least since the date of the previous meeting); (b) whether
or not you are a student; (c) if a student, whether you receive a
normal grant; (d) if not a student, your employment
situation. STUDENTS WHO ARE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT and who wish to
apply for funding should include all the above details WITH THEIR
ABSTRACT. The bursary normally covers the registration fee and travel
within the UK. Those presenting a paper will receive an additional
amount of GBP40.
Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page can be found at the
following address: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LAGB/
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Old World Conference in Phonology I
(OCP I)
This will be a three-day conference at Leiden University, hosted by
the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL) on January
9-11, 2003, partly devoted to the special theme of segmental
phonology.
Dates: 9-11 January, 2003 (Thursday-Saturday)
Organizers: Jeroen van de Weijer (Leiden University,
[log in to unmask]) and Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens
Instituut, [log in to unmask])
Keynote speakers:
G.N. Clements (CNRS, Paris) (confirmed)
Aditi Lahiri (University of Konstanz) (confirmed)
Call for papers
We invite abstracts in all areas of phonology, and particularly on the
conference theme:
*** Segmental phonology ***
The phonological segment is one of the oldest traditional topics of
study, yet many questions remain unresolved. How abstract is the
internal structure of the phonological segment? What is the status of
feature geometry, for instance, or the phonological skeleton in more
recent constraint-based frameworks? What is the current consensus on
the set of distinctive features?
Besides the main conference, there will be room for at least two
workshops. Suggestions for workshop topics can be submitted to the
organizers before July 15, 2002. During the conference there will also
be a business meeting at which the future of phonology conferences in
Europe will be discussed.
Please submit six copies of an abstract for a 30 minute presentation
of maximally two pages before September 15, 2002. Only one of the
abstracts should identify the author and her/his affiliation. The
program will be announced on or before October 15. We plan to publish
a book on the topic of segmental phonology, including selected papers
presented during the conference.
Please submit abstracts to:
Jeroen van de Weijer
OCP 1
ULCL/ATW
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Abstracts submitted by e-mail (preferably in PDF or Word) before
September 15 will also be considered, on the condition that a hard
copy follows within a week. Submissions by email should go to Jeroen
van de Weijer ([log in to unmask])
FACT SHEET
Dates: 9-11 January, 2003 (Thursday-Saturday)
Presentations will be 30 minutes + 15 minutes for questions,
discussion, feedback.
Deadline for abstracts: September 15, 2002
Deadline for workshop proposals: July 15, 2002
Organizers: Jeroen van de Weijer (Leiden University,
[log in to unmask]) and Marc van Oostendorp
(Meertens Instituut, [log in to unmask])
More information: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/ocp1/
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Laboratory Phonology 8, June, New Haven, CT
We would like to remind the phonology and phonetics
communities that the registration deadline for the Eighth Laboratory
Phonology conference at Yale University and Haskins Laboratories is
approaching. The conference runs from 27 June to 30 June in New
Haven, Connecticut. We have an outstanding lineup of papers
addressing the phonetics/phonology interface, addressing themes both
familiar and novel. The familiar themes include phonological
alternations, encoding and production, acquisition, and the internal
structure of segments. The novel themes include sign language
phonology and modeling the emergence of phonological structure.
Results come from a wide range of languages, including five
endangered ones. The range of topics can be viewed at:
http://www.ling.yale.edu/labphon8/ under "Program" and "Abstracts."
Early registration ends soon--check the "Registration" button
on the web site. Those who plan to attend will want to make sure
that they secure a room in official, on-site housing. This
air-conditioned dorm consists entirely of suites sharing a living
room, bathroom, and kitchenette. The rate is quite reasonable,
thanks in part to a grant from the National Science Foundation, and
several LabPhon functions will occur at the dorm. To view the
facilities, go to http://www.yale.edu/yaleconf/facilities.html and
click on "Housing" at the bottom of the page-look for the "Swing
Space" description. Registration includes breakfasts, two lunches,
coffee breaks and a banquet in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Peabody
Museum.
If you have any questions about LabPhon 8, please contact us
at [log in to unmask]
We hope to see you in New Haven in June.
The LabPhon 8 Organizers:
Stephen Anderson, Yale University
Catherine Best, Wesleyan University and Haskins Laboratories
Louis Goldstein, Yale University and Haskins Laboratories
D.H. Whalen, Haskins Laboratories
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PREMIER APPEL
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Colloque International de l'AAI
International Colloquium of the AAI
"Interfaces prosodiques"
"Prosodic Interfaces"
NANTES (France)
27-28-29 Mars / March 2003
Presentation
Comme les annees precedentes, l''equipe AAI de l'Universit'e de Nantes
organise un colloque international. Vous avez ete nombreux e participer e ces
manifestations, et nous esperons que vous serez tout aussi nombreux e
nous rendre visite en mars 2003.
Nous vous proposons cette annee de nous interesser au champ de la prosodie,
qui a acquis un caractere central et incontournable dans nombre de domaines.
C'est le sens du terme "interfaces", qui voudrait insister sur l'articulation
entre la prosodie et d'autres terrains de recherche.
{Comment se relient par exemple la prosodie et la syntaxe, la pragmatique,
la gestualite? Quelles grilles d'analyses, phonetiques ou phonologiques,
peut-on appliquer aux phenomenes prosodiques? Que nous apprennent sur le
langage la pathologie et l'acquisition de la prosodie? Quelle est l'amplitude
de la variation prosodique entre les langues du monde, ou e l'interieur de
ces langues, et peut-on faire une typologie de la prosodie? Que nous apprennent
du rfle de la prosodie le bilinguisme, ou l'apprentissage d'une langue
etrangere?
Toutes ces questions, et bien d'autres encore, seront nous l'esperons abordees
en mars 2003 e Nantes.
The AAI team of the University of Nantes is calling for papers for its
international workshop. Many of you participated in our Workshops in 1997,
1999 and 2002. We hope that you will honour us this year too.
Our proposal this year is to investigate the field of speech prosody, which
is acquiring a central dimension in many domains. This centrality explains
our choice of the term 'interfaces', which underlines the articulation of
prosody with other research areas.
How for instance can we link prosody and syntax, pragmatics, the study of
gestures ? What kinds of analytic grids, phonetical or phonological, can we
apply to prosodic phenomena ? What can we learn from the pathology and
acquisition of prosody ? What is the amplitude of prosodic variation between
the languages of the world, or between the dialects of a given language?
How can bilingualism and second language acquisition help us to understand
the role of prosody in language?
All these questions, and hopefully many others, will be addressed in March
2003 in Nantes.
Themes / topics
Les journees d'etudes linguistiques seront organisees autour des themes
suivants :
The linguistic studies workshop will be organized around the following topics :
- prosodie et discours : semantique, pragmatique, enonciation
(prosody and discourse : semantics, pragmatics, enunciation)
- prosodie et syntaxe (prosody and syntax)
- prosodie et acquisition / pathologie
(prosody and acquisition / pathology)
- description phonetique / analyse phonologique
(phonetic description / phonological interpretation)
- prosodie et gestualite
(prosody and gestures)
- typologie prosodique
(prosodic typology)
- prosodie et bilinguisme
(prosody and bilingualism)
- prosodie et Traitement Automatique des Langues
(prosody and speech technology)
- prosodie, attitudes et emotions
(Prosody, attitudes and emotions)
Organisation
Ces journees sont organisees par l'equipe AAI (Acoustique, Acquisition et
Interpretation) de l'Universite de Nantes, JE2220.
This workshop is organised by the research team AAI (Acoustics, Acquisition
and Interpretation) of the University of Nantes, JE2220.
Pour tout renseignement concernant l'organisation de ces journees, vous
pouvez contacter les deux organisatrices
(if you need more information concerning the organisation of this workshop,
please contact the organisers at the following address):
Amina Mettouchi
Gaeblle Ferre
AAI (Acoustique, Acquisition et Interpretation)
Departement de Lettres Modernes (Bureau 4044)
UFR des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
B.P 81227
44312 Nantes Cedex 3
France
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important dates to remember
Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 2002
Notification des acceptations : 19 decembre 2002
Reception des articles definitifs : 15 fevrier 2003
Programme preliminaire : 1er mars 2003
Journees d'Etudes : 27-28-29 mars 2003
Submission deadline : 1st November 2002
Notification of acceptance : 19 December 2002
Reception of final papers : 15 February 2003
Preliminary programme : 1st March 2003
Workshop : 27-28-29 March 2003
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JOBS / POSITIONS VACANT
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SECOND POSTING
Postdoctoral and Postgraduate Research Opportunities: Ireland
Development of a novel acoustic analysis technique for routine, non-
invasive clinical evaluation of pathological voice
A postdoctoral research opportunity in voice analysis has recently
become available in the Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering,
University of Limerick (UL), Ireland and a postgraduate position is
available in School of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Trinity
College (TCD), Dublin 2, Ireland. The project is set to begin in
Sept./Oct. 2002. The successful candidate for the postdoctoral
position will typically have a first degree in a numerate discipline
with 3/4 years postgraduate experience in a related field. Candidates
interested in postgraduate level positions are also encouraged to
apply for the University of Limerick position. Candidates for the
latter position (TCD) will typically have a Speech and Lang. Therapy
background and will initially enrol for an M.Sc. degree.
The project consists of
Year I (Common)
Speech Production Theory/Voice Pathology Literature/Inverse Filtering
Fundamentals Matlab/Realtime DSP (UL) Record/document
normal/pathological voice data (TCD)
Year II (UL) Develop new inverse filtering
strategies/Derive and validate high quality glottal waveform
Year II (TCD)
Implement and validate new voice measurement system (simultaneous EGG,
acoustic, inverse filtering and stoboscopy data) (In conj. with UL)
The research is funded by an Enterprise Ireland Strategic Research
grant and amounts to EUR28k p.a. postdoc and EUR16k postgrad., incl.
full fees paid.
Further details are available from:
Dr. Peter Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
Dr. Pauline Sloane <[log in to unmask]>
Dr. Jacqueline Walker <[log in to unmask]>
Informal enquiries are welcome.
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The Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Germany,
invites applications for
PhD and Postdoctoral positions
in the research group "Sensorimotor Coordination".
Program description:
The recently created Sensorimotor Coordination research group at the
Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich is seeking to
recruit a PhD student and a postdoctoral fellow. The main goal of the
Sensorimotor Coordination group is to study how the coordination of
multi-degree of freedom systems are mastered from the interplay between the
perceptual and motor systems in humans. The empirical studies will focus on
orofacial and hand/finger movements.
A series of empirical and modeling studies will be carried on at the
Sensorimotor Group, and we welcome candidates interested in one of the
following research areas: estimation of biomechanical properties of human
articulators (jaw and hand/finger coordination), neurophysiological
modeling of the jaw and the arm movement, self-other judgment in lip
reading (in collaboration with the Cognition & Action Unit at the MPIPF),
and jaw and development of jaw/lips/tongue coordination in babbling infants
(in collaboration with the research group Infant Cognition and Action at
the MPIPF).
The Sensorimotor Coordination laboratory equipment will include: an
Optotrak 3020 system, two Phantom robots 1.0, force transducers, and EMG
amplifiers.
Qualifications:
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the studies that will be undergone
in the Sensorimotor Coordination group, we will consider applications from
candidates having background in different domains: experimental psychology,
physics, neurophysiological modeling, and computer science.
Duration:
The Sensorimotor Coordination group will be funded by the Max-Planck
Society until August 2006. The postdoctoral position will be granted for an
initial period of two years, with a possibility of later extension. The
doctoral scholarship will follow the rules established by the Max-Planck
Society (at least three years of duration).
The Max Planck Institute is an equal-opportunity employer and especially
encourages women to apply. Applications from handicapped persons will be
favored when all other qualifications are equal.
Please send a statement of research interests, a CV, and references to:
Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research
Personnel Office
Amalienstr. 33
D-80799 Munich, Germany
For further information, please contact Dr. Rafael Laboissiere
<laboissiere@mpipf- muenchen.mpg.de>
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Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Linguist
Other Desired Areas: Phonology, computational, statistics
University or Organization: Phonetic Systems
Department: Technical Services
State or Province: MA
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: Any
Contact: Vittorio Bares [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
35 Crosby Drive, Suite 300
Bedford
MA 01730
USA
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Linguist/Analyst
Status: Full-Time / Contractor
Reports to: Vittorio Bares - Director Technical Services Directory
Assistance
Summary
An Analyst working as a part of our Technical Services group in the
field of Directory Assistance. Works closely with the R&D team on data
analysis.
Requirements
* A good understanding of Linguistic Phonology
* A background in computational linguistics
* Programming or scripting skills
* A background in statistics
* Understanding of data manipulation - SQL query skills a plus
* Candidate should be prepared to travel to:
- Customer Sites
- R&D in Israel (for full time position)
* Candidate should be a self starter
* Candidate should be detail oriented and thorough
Job Duties
* Phonetic Transcriptions
* Data analysis in order to provide good aliasing rules
* Aliasing analysis in order to provide input to R&D to improve our
tools
* Statistical analysis of field results for the purpose of:
- Measuring software performance
- Measuring data performance
- Determining improvements in both software, human factors and data
preparation
* Parsing raw data from data providers into Phonetic Systems format
* Thorough analysis and research, as well as working with our R&D
department - create new ways of approaching data preparation and
formatting to improve recognition.
* Assist Technical Services in fine-tuning attributes applied to search
components in order to maximize data content and format to recognition
performance.
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Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Speech Research/Phonetics
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Text to Speech/Phonetics Organisation
Department: Speech Research
State or Province: Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Final Date of Application: july 2002
Contact: Grant Grieve [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
9-10, St Andrews Square,
Edinburgh
Lothian EH2 2AF
Scotland
job title: Speech Research Software Engineers
Qualifications or expertise required:
Looking for native or competent speakers of French, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Mandarin and Portuguese with knowledge of the phonetics and
phonology of one of the above languages and previous experience with
text-to-speech systems. Programming experience are also essential
preferably in a unix or linux environment, e.g. PERL, awk, shell
scripts, C, C++, and ideally also Python scripting.
The appointment is for six months initially(contract), with the
possibility of renewal.
Location of job: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Must be European Citizen and hold valid EU passport
Contact information: Grant Grieve on 00 44 131 718 6288 or email:
[log in to unmask]
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The Humboldt-University at Berlin and the University of Potsdam are
offering:
1 Post-doctoral stipend, to start 1. November 2002
The study/research program is concerned with the organisation of the
human language faculty, with special emphasis on economy, optimality
and minimality in the principles and operations that make possible and
constrain the highly complex structures of language.
There are 4 research areas:
- Derivation of universal structural laws from grammar inherent
principles
- Ellipsis
- Lexical and phrasal structure building: comparison of complexity
- Aspects of information structure in semantics, syntax and phonology
Applications:
Information can be obtained from the addresses below. Individuals who
have completed a PhD thesis in one of the 4 research field listed
above is required. are invited to apply. Application should contain
degree/ diploma certificates, curriculum vitae, academic references
(at least one), and an outline for a research proposal (alternatively
you may choose one of the research areas and send your
MA-thesis). Applications should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany
e-mail inquiries: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.sprachgeschichte.de/graduiertenkolleg
Deadline for receipt of applications: 14. June 2002.
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The Humboldt-University at Berlin and the University of Potsdam are
offering:
7 graduate stipends, to start 1. September 2002
The study/research program is concerned with the organisation of the
human language faculty, with special emphasis on economy, optimality
and minimality in the principles and operations that make possible and
constrain the highly complex structures of language.
There are 4 research areas:
- Derivation of universal structural laws from grammar inherent
principles
- Ellipsis
- Lexical and phrasal structure building: comparison of complexity
- Aspects of information structure in semantics, syntax and phonology
Applications:
Information can be obtained from the addresses below. Graduate
students with above average qualifications/ examination results in
contemporary linguistic theory, and speciality in one or more of the
areas listed above, are invited to apply. Application should contain
degree/ diploma certificates, curriculum vitae, academic references
(at least one), and an outline for a research proposal (alternatively
you may choose one of the research areas and send your
MA-thesis). Applications should be sent to:
Prof. Dr. Karin Donhauser
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany
e-mail inquiries: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.sprachgeschichte.de/graduiertenkolleg
Deadline for receipt of applications: 14. June 2002.
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The Department of Psychology and the Division of Informatics, at the
University of Edinburgh, invite applications from highly-qualified
candidates for a 3-year Lectureship to be jointly held in Psychology and
Informatics. You must be able to teach existing courses in both
departments, and one or more of the following areas: Cognitive Modelling,
Computational Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational
Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction, Experimental Methods.
You should demonstrate a world-class research record and both interest and
ability in teaching. You will be an experimentalist with a firm grounding
in theory and computation.
Informal enquiries to Professor Bonnie Webber, Division of Informatics,
0131 650 4190 or to [log in to unmask], Department of Psychology, Ph: 0131
650 3440, Fax: 0131 650 3461.
Salary range: £20,470 - £24,435p.a. or -£25,455 - £32,537p.a.
For further information about this role, please go to http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/
(enter reference number 311414)
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job opening, vacancy:
The Department of Language & Speech, University of Nijmegen,
offers a four-year position for research on automatic
generation and validation of phonetic transcriptions.
Project title
Automatic generation and validation of phonetic transcriptions.
Project description
There is an increasing need for automatic procedures to
generate and validate phonetic transcriptions, to support
developments in speech technology and in fundamental phonetic
research. At present, phonetic transcriptions are typically
made by hand, which is time-consuming, costly and error-prone.
The aim of this project is to develop automatic procedures to
generate 'appropriate' phonetic transcriptions. In the first
stage of the project the aim is to automatically generate
phonetic transcriptions that resemble manual phonetic
transcriptions as much as possible (as it is generally done).
However, for some applications the automatically generated
phonetic transcriptions do not have to be identical to manual
transcriptions, and certain deviations are less important than
others. Therefore, in the second stage of the project,
deviations between automatically generated and manual phonetic
transcriptions are studied in the context of three potential
applications of phonetic transcription in applied and
fundamental speech research.
We expect that this project will shed light on the usability
of automatically generated phonetic transcriptions (for
certain applications), and will also yield automatic
procedures for validating phonetic transcriptions. The work
will be carried out in close collaboration with the Speech
Processing Expertise Centre SPEX.
Additional information:
* on this vacancy: http://lands.let.kun.nl/TSpublic/PhonTrans
* on the activities of SPEX: http://www.spex.nl/
* on the Dept. of Language & Speech: http://lands.let.kun.nl/
Information / Application:
Requirements for the job:
* MA/MSc in Speech Technology, Speech Science or Computer Science
* Experience in automatic speech recognition, phonetic transcription
* Programming skills (preferably Perl, Unix)
* Knowledge of Dutch phonology and phonetics
* Ability to work in a team
Interested parties who (at least partially) fulfill the qualifications
stated above should send an application (preferably by e-mail)
before June 28th, 2002, containing:
* Name
* A short paragraph describing your qualifications
* Contact details of references
to
dr. H. van den Heuvel
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Tel. +31-24-3611686
http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/staffPERperson.php3?name=heuvel
or
dr. H. Strik
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Tel. +31-24-3616104
http://zap.to/helmer
postal address:
A2RT, Dept. of Language and Speech
University of Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
The Netherlands
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Rank of Job: PhD
Areas Required: PhD Studentship in Phonetics/Phonology
Other Desired Areas: --
University or Organization: University of Edinburgh
Department: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
State or Province: --
Country: United Kingdom
Final Date of Application: 30 June, 2002
Contact: Alice Turk [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
Recruitment; The Personnel Department; 9-16 Chambers Street;
Edinburgh
- EH1 1HT
UK
Edinburgh University is recruiting candidates for an AHRB-funded
project PhD studentship supervised by Dr. Alice Turk. The topic of
the studentship is an investigation of the use of lexical and
sub-lexical prosodic constituents and their phonetic correlates in an
under-studied language. A first degree (undergraduate degree) in
Linguistics or a related area is required, as is knowledge of an
under-studied language and contacts with speakers of this
language. Desirable attributes are a demonstrated interest in prosodic
constituent structure and fieldwork experience.
The appointment would be from 1 January, 2003 and would last for three
years. UK residents and others with an established connection with the
UK will be awarded maintenance fees of approximately 8000 pounds per
annum as well as tuition fees. Non-UK residents who are resident of
the EU will be awarded tuition fees only.
Those interested in applying are encouraged to make informal contact
with Alice Turk ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible. Further
particulars and application procedures will be available through the
University's Personnel Office
(http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm), to whom all applications
should be addressed. The closing date for applications is June 30,
2002.
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Rank of Job: Research Assistant
Areas Required: phonetics, phonology, acquisition
Other Desired Areas: speech acoustics
University or Organization: University of Hamburg
Department: Center for Multilingualism
State or Province: Hamburg
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: May 30th 2002
Contact: Conxita Lleo [log in to unmask]
Address for Applications:
Institut fur Romanistik, Universitat Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6,
Hamburg
20146
Germany
The CENTER FOR MULTILINGUALISM at the UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG
invites applications for a RESEARCH ASSISTANT (BAT IIa/Halbe) to work
in the project "Prosodic Constraints on the Phonological and
Morphological Development of Bilingual Children" under the direction
of Prof. Conxita Lleo. The project, funded by the German Science
Foundation (DFG) and the University of Hamburg, examines bilingual
acquisition of German and Spanish in early and late childhood. The
relationship between the two developing systems especially at the
prosodic level constitutes the focus of the project. The position is
part-time and gives the researcher the opportunity of doing a
Ph.D. Beginning 1 July 2002, for 3 years.
Applicants should have a University Degree in Linguistics, in the area
of phonetics and phonology and have an excellent mastery of Spanish (a
native speaker would be preferred) and some knowledge of German.
Experience in acoustic analysis is absolutely necessary.
Computing/database experience and some knowledge of statistics would
be an advantage.
Applicants should send full C.V. and the names and e-mail addresses of
at least one academic referee by May 30th 2002 to Professor Conxita
Lleo, Institut fur Romanistik, Universitat Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6,
20146 Hamburg, GERMANY. Informal queries over e-mail are welcome:
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