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From: busemann@dfki.uni-sb.de (Stephan Busemann)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 15:16:29 +0200
Subject: <mod-ki 0725> Job Openings in Computational Semantics at DFKI
Keywords: Stellen, Jobs, Saarbruecken

mod-ki message 0725
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         Researchers (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in ASL

We are looking for researchers to join the  project  ASL  (Architectures
for Speech and Language) located  at  the  German  Research  Center  for
Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches  Forschungszentrum  fuer  Kuenstliche
Intelligenz, DFKI) in  Saarbruecken.  The  posts  should  be  filled  by
January 1992.

ASL is a four-year project (started January '91) funded  by  the  German
Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT). The main  objective  is  to
combine  speech  and  natural  language  technologies  with  an  eye  to
improving the accuracy of the former and the utility of the latter.  The
project involves teams throughout Germany and  is  led  by  a  group  at
Hamburg under Prof. Walther von Hahn. The leading scientific idea of the
project is to encode information about natural language in a declarative
fashion so that its use  in  processing  is  subject  to  the  needs  of
recognition.

The task  of  the  Saarbruecken  project  will  be  to  define,  design,
implement and maintain a semantics and (contextual) pragmatics component
in ASL. Because constraint-based methods are  called  for,  and  because
there is an opportunity to work on semantics and (contextual) pragmatics
in a single component,  we  are  interested  in  exploring  a  situation
semantics approach.

Ideally,  we  are  looking  for  computer  scientists  or  computational
linguists with good theoretical and  practical  backgrounds  in  AI  and
natural language processing.  Applicants  should  normally  be  able  to
implement in Common Lisp, and should have  experience  in  some  of  the
following areas:

 - semantics of suprasegmentals (stress, intonation)
 - linguistic description in constraint-based models
 - discourse context modeling, especially in situation semantics
 - resolution of anaphora and disambiguation
 - implementation of logics for meaning representation.

DFKI is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1988 by the share
holder companies ADV/Orga, AEG, IBM, Insiders,  Fraunhofer Gesellschaft,
GMD, Krupp-Atlas,  Mannesmann-Kienzle,  Nixdorf,  Philips  and  Siemens.
Research projects conducted at the DFKI are funded by the BMFT,  by  the
shareholder companies, or by other industrial contracts.

The DFKI conducts application-oriented basic research in the field of AI
and other related subfields of computer science. The overall goal is  to
construct systems with technical knowledge and common sense which--using
AI methods--implement a problem  solution  for  a  selected  application
area. From its beginning, the DFKI has provided  an  attractive  working
environment for AI researchers from Germany and from all over the world.
Several project groups work in the area of natural language  processing.

The Saarbruecken site  offers  an  excellent  research  environment  for
anyone  interested  in  computational  linguistics,  AI,  and   computer
science. Several research projects are  conducted  at  the  university's
Computational Linguistics department. The university has one of the best
Computer Science departments in Germany. Natural language processing  is
one of the main strengths of the  department's  AI  lab.  Furthermore  a
newly founded Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science with a focus  in
Parallel Processing has been set up on the Saarbruecken campus.

The employment is not restricted to the duration of the project ASL; The
salary mainly depends on the applicant's scientific experience.

Applications with the usual documents should be sent  electronically  or
by post to

   John Nerbonne
   DFKI GmbH
   Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
   W-6600 Saarbruecken 11
   Germany

   nerbonne@dfki.uni-sb.de
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