The University of Geneva, Department of Computer Science, invites
applications for a post-doctoral research associate position in
natural language processing.  The successful candidate will be part of
the EU-funded project PARLANCE.  He/she will investigate statistical
methods for natural language understanding, including spoken language
understanding.

The PARLANCE project is designing and building applications that
approach human performance in conversational spoken interaction,
targeting interactive search and information provision applications.
The PARLANCE systems will be based on probabilistic inference
procedures and incremental dialog processing.  Systems will be
developed for English and Mandarin.  The other project partners are
Cambridge University, Heriot-Watt University, CRSA, iSoco, and Yahoo!
Iberia.

At the University of Geneva, the project is lead by James Henderson
(Department of Computer Science) and Paola Merlo (Department of
Linguistics) within the research group Computational Learning and
Computational Linguistics (http://clcl.unige.ch/).  Work focuses on
incremental models of spoken language understanding which integrate
domain-general statistical models of syntactic-semantic parsing, as
well as open-domain information extraction.  The successful candidate
will be expected to participate in this project, plus engage in
research of their own choosing.

Applicants should have completed a PhD in Computer Science or
Computational Linguistics by the start of the appointment.  The ideal
candidate will have a background in natural language processing,
statistical methods, machine learning, and spoken language
understanding.  Good programming skills are required.  Fluency in
either English or French is required.

This is a limited-term appointment of about 1 year, starting as soon
as possible and ending in October 2014.  Salaries are competitive, and
dependent on qualifications.

Requirements:
* PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics
* Knowledge of NLP and/or machine learning
* Programming skills
* Fluent in English or French

Location:
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Closing Date:
Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the position is filled.

Application Instructions:

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research
interest, and names and addresses of at least 3 references to James
Henderson at James.Henderson@unige.ch, with PARLANCE Postdoc as the
subject line.

Informal inquiries can be addressed to James Henderson
(James.Henderson@unige.ch) or to Paola Merlo (Paola.Merlo@unige.ch).
The University of Geneva wishes to increase the proportion of female
academic staff and, for this reason, especially welcomes applications
from women.