UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
We are advertising a research position in the VERBMOBIL project,
which is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research
(BMBF). VERBMOBIL is concerned with the development of a portable
speech-to-speech translation system for "face-to-face"-communication.
The VERBMOBIL subproject at the Department of Computational
Linguistics in Tuebingen includes the following two tasks:
- the construction of a tree bank for the German VERBMOBIL corpus
with the focus on syntactic annotation.
- English-to-German translations of VERBMOBIL spoken-language
dialogues, manual and automatic alignment of German/English
bilingual corpora.
Candidates for the position should have native or near-native
competence in German, have research experience in German syntax, and
have good language skills in English.
The second phase of the VERBMOBIL project started in January 1997.
Funding is guaranteed until December 1998. Contingent on a successful
midterm review, funding is expected to be extended until December
2000. The successful candidate would be expected to take up the
position as soon as possible. The position is at the rank of
"Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (salary on the German payscale of
BAT IIa; minimum of 65 000 DM per year).
Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience
and interests. Names and addresses of references would be helpful.
Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below.
Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs
c/o Valia Kordoni
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Abt. Computerlinguistik
Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen
Germany
Applications received by January 31, 1998 will receive full
consideration.