in the following domains:

- natural language processing
- analysis, indexing and querying of multimedia documents
- dialogue and human-computer interaction
- structured document modelling
 

Essential requirements is a computer science degree (M.Sc. or Ph.D.)

Candidates must speak English. Knowledge of French or desire to learn French would be a welcome extra.

The ideal candidate would be one who has past experience in one or more of the following subject and an enthusiasm for developing and exploiting new approaches to problem solving:

    Natural Language Engineering:
            Advanced techniques and programming languages for Natural Language Processing
            (Logic Programming, Constraint programming, Agent oriented programming, Java, Perl)

    Multimodal Interfaces
            Dialogue Management
            User modelling

    Video and Image analysis and 3D object description

    Multimedia documents:
            hypertexts
            technology XML

The position will offer flexibility in the choice of research topics within the context of ongoing projects at the laboratory.

Initial appointment to these positions will be for the period of a year with the potential of renewal for a second year.

Starting date: as soon as possible

Salary will be compatible with departmental rates for graduate and postdoctoral research fellows
and can be at 100% or 50%.

Please direct inquiries and applications to:

Prof. Giovanni Coray
EPFL-DI-LITH
IN-Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Tél. 021 693 25 72
Fax 021 693 52 78
e-mail: coray@di.epfl.ch
http://lithwww.epfl.ch