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         RESEARCH POSITION - Statistical Language Modeling

Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR)
State University of New York at Buffalo

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A Research Scientist position is available immediately
to work on a project where
statistical models of language (English) are used in recognizing
(i.e., reading) handwritten text.  CEDAR conducts research
and development work on all aspects of document 
recognition/understanding and is situated on the campus of
SUNY at Buffalo.


REQUIRED BACKGROUND:
    Experience in statistical language modeling
    Experience with statistical NLP (e.g., part-of-speech
    tagging, stochastic parsing)
    Experience in OCR or speech recognition highly desirable
    Experience in corpus-based linguistic analysis for English
    C Programming
    Good written and verbal skills

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
    A Ph.D. or M.S. in Computer Science or Computational
    Linguistics with expertise in 
    statistical language modeling is required.
    In the case of M.S., 2-3 years work experience in 
    the above areas is required.

JOB DESCRIPTION
    To work on a project which integrates statistical 
    language modeling techniques with
    on-line (pen-based), off-line (paper-based) 
    and machine-print text recognition systems.
    Specific tasks include the development and testing of
    language models specific to each of the media described above,
    as well as accounting for domain influence.
    Will be working with a team of
    other researchers engaged in the recognition task.

SALARY
    Will be based upon qualifications and relevant experience.

Interested applicants should send a CV (including 3 references)
along with a letter describing background and research 
interests to:

 Rohini K. Srihari
 CEDAR/UB Commons
 SUNY at Buffalo
 520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202
 Buffalo, NY 14228-2567

 e-mail: rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu
 Fax: (716)-645-6176

Note: preliminary submission of application through e-mail is
encouraged.
