Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05407; 2 Dec 96 7:33:19 EST Received: from gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk by CS.CMU.EDU id aa03777; 2 Dec 96 7:32:56 EST Received: from elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk by gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk (4.1/DCS2.0) id AA04299; Mon, 2 Dec 96 11:41:01 GMT Received: by elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk (8.6.9/SMI-4.1) id LAA01116; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:41:05 GMT Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:41:05 GMT Message-Id: <199612021141.LAA01116@elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk> From: Steve Renals To: salt@essex.ac.uk, elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Postdoc: Speech Recognition at Sheffield University (UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.69) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ai@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science Research Associate in Continuous Speech Recognition (Ref: R1039) Applications are invited for the above post which is tenable for three years from February 1997. The post is part of an EU Long Term Research project (THISL) that will develop a system for the indexing and retrieval of information from large speech recordings and TV/radio broadcasts. The main emphasis of the work will be developing hybrid connectionist/HMM algorithms and systems for very large vocabulary broadcast speech recognition. Candidates for the post will be expected to hold a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics), or to have acquired equivalent experience. The successful candidate will probably have had research experience in the area of speech recognition, neural computing or language modelling. Salary will be in the range \pounds 14,317 to \pounds 19,948. Closing date for applications: 7 January 1997. For further information about the post contact Steve Renals or on the web, http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh/projects/thisl.html Application forms are available are available from the Director of Human Resources, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK, tel: +44-114-279-9800, email: jobs@sheffield.ac.uk, citing reference R1039. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Renals mailto:s.renals@dcs.shef.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sjr/ Sheffield University phone: +44-114-222-1836 Regent Court fax: +44-114-278-0972 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message | Submissions ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu was sent via | Subscribe/Unsubscribe ai+query@cs.cmu.edu the AI-POSTDOC | Available mailing lists include mailing list. | AI-JOBS, LISP-JOBS, PROLOG-JOBS, AI-POSTDOC, AI-PREDOC