postdoc opportunities at Johns Hopkins

[Jason Eisner]

Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire outstanding postdoctoral
researchers immediately at its Center for Language and Speech
Processing (CLSP).  Candidates should have previous experience in
quantitative approaches to machine learning, speech, language, or
other AI domains.  Strong computational and mathematical skills are
required.

CLSP is a leading center for research on speech and language.  It
specializes in formal and quantitative approaches such as
probabilistic modeling, unsupervised machine learning, and grammar
formalisms.

Our core faculty presently include:

    Luigi Burzio        Cognitive Science
    Bill Byrne          Electrical & Computer Engineering
    Jason Eisner        Computer Science
    Bob Frank           Cognitive Science
    Fred Jelinek        Electrical & Computer Engineering
    Sanjeev Khudanpur   Electrical & Computer Engineering
    Paul Smolensky      Cognitive Science
    David Yarowsky      Computer Science

We are looking for postdocs to contribute to one or more of the
following long-term projects funded by NSF and/or DoD.  Postdocs
participating in these highly visible projects can expect to gain
considerable research experience in speech and language technology.

Speech Recognition

* MALACH:  Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives
* ASR for Rich Transcription of Conversational Mandarin

Machine Translation

* Improving Statistical Translation Models Via Text Analyzers Trained
   from Parallel Corpora

Algorithmic Infrastructure

* Weighted Dynamic Programming and Finite-State Modeling
   for Statistical NLP

Applicants are invited to email us a CV, a one-page statement of
research interests, a list of three references, and a cover letter
that briefly summarizes qualifications. Applications may be sent to
Sue Porterfield at sec at clsp.jhu.edu (fax to +1 410 516 5050 if email
is not possible).

Johns Hopkins University is located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Our URL is http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/.