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<body><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>see the post-doc position below. Females are especially encouraged to apply.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes</div><div>Odette Scharenborg</div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img alt="Logo_ehess.svg.png" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/QQ_ZuHmh-0X5JR8JGC9DMRfZzs2USs4SoIo_zw_u35FjqJ0Ra5PqYA8PanhiGoAdeInZKcyrwKaW7RVdEqKYtvevrZ5zAft7NKEys7dbZ6eApEJylHv5-MiIlqdf3-Larbgi1X3_" width="70" height="70" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/7qQxO6ONuoUat7MJ_BR3oCzuXEoK38PAqi-yH_X0xNlzR29GP6KUo5CrKrynkOCyan015WQDwSEoN2RdDF1_uYytKPpt3sd8pC5JiXjxiGSVesVcnIe9fMn92qlfzgmuGfrKbrOH" width="131" height="62" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img alt="image_preview.png" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Kzb4NJrOpYD6sz5Xd4HgXYdk0tEZ3uSEqSZkclXpm_5XSaNmPcw54xrvugXtd-MAcF4BnwLo9dyfI4Nz5tXoE0-CMOL-Bu9um3-gsOWuNFnKRDq0vs-vbNI5AYfhPvXqUMxC1l6b" width="74" height="74" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/y5l41rllmdcsLH5aBrC8Oxuz43pBTeprGIypi7gMgCM_jVW-5Cirun2GO6sIkIqoaxK4mnqfH1ENgkDHSxlu_7-PmXucjDo-TqMgReNH7e2lxS4LHs8XV1YnZo5qStty7Mvs6uJN" width="125" height="57" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Laboratoire des Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UMR 8554 - EHESS - ENS - CNRS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris</span></p></span><div><span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow with a strong background in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">speech technology</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The two-years post-doctoral fellowship will take place at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, part of the Département d'Études Cognitives (DEC) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, under the joint supervision of</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/coraliechevallier/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></a><a href="http://www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Emmanuel Dupoux</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and</span><a href="http://acristia.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alex Cristia</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.</span></div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The postdoctoral fellow would ideally become involved in one or more of several ongoing projects, including:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The organization of challenges and workshops like the </span><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04313" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Zero Resource Speech Challenge</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The development of speech technology/machine learning algorithms inspired by how infants learn language, i.e, with little or no supervision </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The development of speech technology solutions applicable to </span><a href="https://homebank.talkbank.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">naturalistic, large-scale recordings</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, in order to derive measures of language production and conversational dynamic </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Requirements: </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The candidate should have a PhD in speech technology and related fields.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience managing large datasets is required along with strong programming (experience with python and open source projects is a plus). </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Strong English language and writing skills are required (note: speaking French is not required).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experience with linguistics and child language is appreciated but not required. </span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Salary: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The salary will be adjusted to the candidate’s post-doctoral experience (start salary for a 1</span><span style="font-size:7.2pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap">st</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> year post doc: 33,000 euros/year net; 5 years of experience: 38,000)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Start date: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The position should ideally start before March 2019 but there is some flexibility if this is not possible. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications and requests for information: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">by December 7, 2019 </span><span 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