Job advertisement (fwd)

[Tuong-Vinh Ho <vho@info.polymtl.ca>]

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>POSITION IN SPEECH RESEARCH AVAILABLE AT UBILAB, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
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>Ubilab is looking for a research staff member in the general area of
>Speech Research. Ubilab is the corporate IT research and innovation
>laboratory of Union Bank of Switzerland. It pursues a small number of
>research projects, often in co-operation with other research institutes
>in Switzerland and abroad. In addition, Ubilab serves the bank as an
>effective IT consultant on both the strategic and tactical levels.
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>We have an open position on a new project in the area of Dialogue
>Systems. It is clear that future telephone services will need to offer
>greater functionality than is currently available, via a natural,
>easy-to-use interface. Therefore there is the need for flexible speech
>recognition and sophisticated speech understanding, dialogue design and
>management, rather than the limited approaches seen today.
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>Our new research staff member - ideally a recent recipient of a PhD -
>will complement and strengthen the capabilities and expertise of
>existing project team members. We are looking for someone with a solid
>research background in speech processing (preferably over the telephone,
>using HMM or neural-network methods), experience of dialogue design and
>natural language processing, and a good publication record.
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>Ubilab is centrally located in downtown Zurich and employs some fifteen
>researchers of various nationalities. Please see our World-Wide Web
>pages at http://www.ubs.com/ubilab for further information.
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>Please send your resume to
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>Dr. David A. James
>Ubilab
>Union Bank of Switzerland
>Bahnhofstrasse 45
>CH-8021 Zurich
>Switzerland
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>Alternatively, you can send a plain ASCII, Postscript, or Microsoft Word
>copy of your resume to David.James@ubs.com
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