Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France)

Postdoctoral Position at INRIA Nancy (France)

Field: Computational Linguistics

Topic: Surface realisation and large scale over-generation detection

Deadline for application: February 15, 2008.

Starting Date: 01 November 2008

Employer: INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer
Science) Nancy Grand Est (France)

Job Description: The Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (Nancy, France) has a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on the development of a surface realiser for French.

Applicants must have a ** recent doctoral degree ** (PhD viva held in may 2007 or later) or defend their PhD before the end of 2008. They must have expertise in an area relevant to the project (linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science), strong hands-on experience in Natural Language Processing and a particular interest in NL generation. A good knowledge of Haskell is a necessity.

Further particulars and details of how to apply are available at:

http://www.loria.fr/~gardent

The official closing date is February 15, 2007, but applications will be processed until the position is filled.

Contact: Claire Gardent <claire.gardent@loria.fr>

Scientist and developer positions available at Eurobios

Eurobios is the world leader in commercialising the science of complexity and complex adaptive systems. We build sophisticated software in Java using the Eclipse rich client platform. These software products provide robust, powerful optimisation and modelling solutions for our client's logistics, supply chain, inventory management, route optimisation needs. Our solutions produce optimised routes to serve more than 5 million people each day.

These exciting products combine cutting edge algorithms (many powerful complexity science-based techniques including agent-based modelling, learning heuristics, multi-objective optimisation, and data mining) with sophisticated analysis, mapping, graphing capabilities, and integration with 3rd party products such as Google Earth.

At Eurobios, we combine the intellectual excitement of academia with the resources and practical concerns of business and industry. If you would enjoy this creative and fast-paced environment, we welcome your application for employment. We have done some truly exciting and innovative work for clients such as Unilever, Post Denmark, BP, SCA Packaging, Italian Railways, Peugeot, Biffa, Serco, etc.

We are looking for highly intelligent individuals with a good level of scientific and/or software engineering skills. The ideal candidates will of course have everything, but working at Eurobios is a learning experience and we will readily hire individuals with the a good balanced skillset and the right aptitude. The skills we look for are:

- Masters or PhD in relevant scientific area (computer science, or applied area of mathematics, physics, economics)
- Understanding of combinatorial optimisation algorithms and techniques.
- Excellent software engineering skills, preferably in Java.
- An understanding of software design, UML, unit testing.
- Good knowledge of Eclipse RCP, EMF, databases, uDig, BIRT technologies
- Experience with supply chain modelling, route optimisaton and similar problems (far beyond the TSP)

If you can demonstrate 4 or more of these abilities, then please apply! In all positions a crucial skill is the ability to prototype software very quickly and then translate that prototype into production-quality software over a longer period of time. Finally, the ability to work in a team of scientists, developers, and business analysts is essential, as is the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, interesting way, to a mixed audience. A small amount of travel will be required, usually in the UK/Europe, and fluency in other European languages is of benefit, but certainly not essential.

All of our team have demonstrated outstanding results working both self-motivated and alone, and the ability to operate efficiently and effectively in a collaborative team environment.

We are a successful, independent, growing company based in London and Paris. We are looking for exceptional candidates to further that success. The current open positions are based in London (although we would be flexible to the opportunity to move to Paris in the future).

Initial salary is in the £25-£38k range, depending on experience and skills, with possible bonuses for outstanding performance. Health insurance and pension plan are also provided.

To apply, please send a cover letter describing why you believe you would make a strong candidate for Eurobios, a CV and a document of no more than two pages describing one recent project of yours in terms that can be understood by the non-expert. We aim to hire 1-2 candidates asap, potentially followed by others later in the year.

Contact:
vince.darley@eurobios.com

No recruitment consultants please. Applications must contain more than just a CV - those without an appropriate cover letter will not be accepted.

Vince Darley
CEO, Eurobios UK Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)207 947 3275
Mobile: +44 (0) 794 154 8527
www.eurobios.com

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop

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ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop
June 15-20, 2008, Columbus Ohio

*** Final Call for Papers, Deadline: January 10, 2008! ***

URL: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/srw.html
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1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

• pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
• phonetics, phonology and morphology
• linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
• information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
• summarization and paraphrasing
• speech recognition, speech synthesis
• corpus-based language modeling
• multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
• spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
• multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
• message and narrative understanding systems

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers.

Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research
Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

3. Submission Procedure

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These files are available at ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic. Please use the submission page to submit your paper.

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance
decision will be based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this: ''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''.

5. Schedule

The papers must be submitted no later than midnight, January 10th, 2008 . No papers received after January 10th, 2008 will be accepted. Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on February 28th, 2008. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2008
Camera-ready paper submission deadline: April 14, 2008
Conference date: June 15-20, 2008
(The workshop will be held during the main conference)

6. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use: acl08srw@ling.osu.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be
forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair)
Bogazici University,
Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair)
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany

Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair)
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, USA

Tenure junior research position for 2008

Tenure junior research position for 2008
http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/postes07.html
[Application deadline 09-JAN-08 23:59 Paris time]

CR2 position 48/03 in section 48 (Communication sciences) Information systems, multimedia and multilingual documents, knowledge industry.

Job description

The candidate will conduct research in the field of information processing with application to multimedia and multilingual documents. The main research direction will be the development of models and algorithms for automatic structuring, indexing, enrichment and extraction of knowledge from speech data in a multilingual context. It is envisioned that the models studied will be based on the joint use of linguistic knowledge and statistical learning methods applied to very large corpora. The candidate should have an expertise in at least one of following areas: spoken language processing, statistical based machine translation, and audio data mining. This
research will contribute to the development of emerging technologies for knowledge engineering and information access. A variety of new applications can be foreseen related to audiovisual archives, digital libraries, the production of multimedia documents, and more generally systems to organize and access multimedia and multilingual content, especially on the Internet.

Other related research positions are also listed on http://www.limsi.fr/tlp/postes07.html

Postdoc: Handwriting recognition Scientist

A2iA (Artificial Intelligence & Image Analysis) is the worldwide leading developer of natural handwriting recognition, Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technologies and products for the payment, mail, document and forms processing markets.

We are looking for a Handwriting recognition Scientist for our R&D Department in Paris.

This position requires a person with a strong background in machine learning methodology, algorithms for recognition (speech, handwriting), and software development. The primary responsibilities are to conduct research and software development for handwriting recognition using statistical machine learning methods.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Develop new algorithms for handwriting recognition based on statistical machine learning techniques.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of core computational routines in C++ and python interface, automated test and validation routines, and related documentation such as help files and user's guide.
• Develop tests to verify the algorithms and the robustness of the methodologies and software in the areas of handwriting recognition in a wide variety of real world applications.
• Author technical papers related to algorithms, methodology, and case study results.
• Interest and willingness to conduct novel research in handwriting recognition and machine learning.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Education and Training: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related
field.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Strong background data mining and statistical machine learning.
• Demonstrated work experience C++ and python
• Experience with Windows and UNIX development platforms.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as demonstrated by term papers, technical publications, or conference presentations

For additional questions or to send your resume directly please contact career@a2ia.com or visit us at www.a2ia.com

Post-Doctorat Position in Multi-Agent negotiation

Post-Doctorat Position in Multi-Agent negotiation
University of Valenciennes, France

Period: 1 year starting January 2008.
Key-Words: Multi-Agent System, Negotiation


Retailing is a very complex business and "getting the right product to the right store with the right quantity at the right time with the right price at the lowest cost of delivery is a very challenging task" (B. Vinod). These parameters result of negotiations between units such as the commercial department, the financial department, the production unit and the stocks management unit. Each of these entities aims to maximize its own profits, but a global constraint obliges them to maximize together the enterprise's profits.

These parameters have an influence on the demand forecasting, and depend also of them. A cycle? parameters evaluation - demand forecasting? will be made, the termination condition being the optimum profits of the enterprise and of its entities.

The researcher will work in and cooperate with a multidisciplinary team covering the mentioned subjects.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a PhD thesis in Multi-Agent System, Computer Science or Engineering. A good background in negotiation principles will be favoured.

Applicants should send by email a detailed resume, a CV and and a link to homepage and publications if available to: Emmanuel ADAM, Email: emmanuel.adam@univ-valenciennes.fr

ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION

2nd Call for Papers

ESSLLI 2008 STUDENT SESSION
4-18 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany

Submission deadline: 15 February 2008
Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13

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We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held in Hamburg, Germany on August 4-15, 2008.

The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and PhD-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation.


CALL FOR PAPERS

The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and
for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of
Logic, Language and Computation.

*** Submission deadline: 15 February 2008 ***

The ESSLLI Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted.


SUBMISSION

Student authors are invited to submit a full paper up to 7 pages inclusive of references. Note that the length of the final version of the accepted papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages.

The preferred formats of submissions are PostScript or PDF, although other formats will also be accepted. More submission details and all relevant information at:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kbalogh/StuS13


CONTACT

Kata Balogh
ESSLLI 2008 Student Session chair

email: k.balogh@uva.nl
tel.: +31 20 5254544
fax: +31 20 5254503
postal address:
Department of Philosophy
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15
1012 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands