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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 15:18:27 +0200
Subject: <mod-ki 0726> Job Openings in Computational Linguistics at DFKI
Keywords: Stellen, Jobs

mod-ki message 0726
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         Research Associates (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
                       in the Project DISCO

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

DISCO (DIalogue Systems for autonomous COoperating  agents)  is  a  four
year project (started January '90) funded by  the  German  Minister  for
Research and Technology (BMFT). The  main  objective  is  to  develop  a
natural  language  dialogue  system  for  multiple  cooperating  agents.
Besides strategies for parsing and generation, a grammar and  a  lexicon
are presently being developed using a formalism close to that  of  HPSG.
In the second phase of the project, the constraint-based  approach  will
be  extended  to  include  the  treatment  of   dialog   phenomena   and
non-linguistic knowledge.

Current project members are Rolf Backofen, Stephan Busemann, Hans-Ulrich
Krieger, John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter,  Harald Trost  and  Hans Uszkoreit
(PI).

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

 - treatment of dialogue phenomena (including dialogues between
   multiple agents)
 - relating conceptual knowledge (a domain model) to linguistic
   knowledge for interpretation and generation of dialogue steps
 - parsing and interpretation of natural language input
 - development of large natural language systems
 - description of German in HPSG (or similar framework).

DFKI is a non-profit organization which  was  founded  in  1988  by  its
shareholder  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--by
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  setting  for  research  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  DISCO.
The salary will mainly depend on the applicant's scientific  experience.

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

   Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
   DFKI GmbH
   Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
   W-6600 Saarbruecken 11
   Germany

   uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de
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