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Upcoming call for postdoctoral positions in the <b>Center
for Language and Speech Technologies and Applications</b> <b>(TALP).
</b><span style="font-weight:normal">TALP is </span>a specific
interdepartmental research center at the <a href="http://www.upc.edu/" target="_blank">Technical
University of Catalunya (UPC)</a>.<br>
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The<span style="display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:21.76px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"></span> Language
and Speech Technologies Research Center at UPC would like to
draw the attention of young postdoctoral researchers in Speech
and Language Processing to the imminent opening of two
different calls for a number of 2-year postdoctoral contracts
within the "Juan de la Cierva" program of the Spanish Ministry
for Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (MINEICO).<br>
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1) "Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva-formación": For
early stage researchers who were awarded their PhD between 1
January 2016 and 31 December 2017. The application period will
start on 21 December 2017 and will end on 11 January 2018. The
currently available information about the call be found here
(in Spanish): <a href="http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/?vgnextoid=998cf4215103f510VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD" target="_blank">http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/p<wbr>ortal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc<wbr>68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/<wbr>?vgnextoid=998cf4215103f510Vgn<wbr>VCM1000001d04140aRCRD</a><br>
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2) "Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva-incorporación":
For researchers who were awarded their PhD between 1 January
2013 and 31 December 2015 The application period will start on
20 December 2017 and will end on 10 January 2018. The
currently available information about the call be found here
(in Spanish): <a href="http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/?vgnextoid=8d50f4215103f510VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD" target="_blank">http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/p<wbr>ortal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc<wbr>68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/<wbr>?vgnextoid=8d50f4215103f510Vgn<wbr>VCM1000001d04140aRCRD</a><br>
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TALP encourages qualified candidates, working in areas within
the research scope of the center, to send a short expression
of interest and<font color="#990000"> a 2-page cv to <a href="mailto:mfuentes@upc.edu" target="_blank">info@talp.upc.edu</a></font>
by 21st December 2017. Please, add as a subject **Juan de la
Cierva Application**<br>
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Research areas of interest to the group include: <br>
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<ul>
<li>audio analysis and enhancement,<br>
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<li>construction and use of multilingual lexical resources,<br>
</li>
<li>development of speech databases,</li>
<li>information extraction,</li>
<li>information retrieval,</li>
<li>machine learning methods,</li>
<li>machine translation,<br>
</li>
<li>multilingual robust speech recognition,<br>
</li>
<li>multilingual text-to-speech conversion,<br>
</li>
<li>natural language interfaces,</li>
<li>natural language processing tools,<br>
</li>
<li>speaker and emotions recognition. <br>
</li>
</ul>
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