<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"></p> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> [Apologies for cross-posting.]<br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # WANTED:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Postdoctoral Research Associate in response generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems at the Interaction Lab, Edinburgh (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/&source=gmail&ust=1547287155373000&usg=AFQjCNGCYkp3-mVk2ciNDbLEOqFCzpydOw" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk372173" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://sites.google.com/<wbr>site/hwinteractionlab/</a>).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Closing date: </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> 21st January 2019</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Apply here: </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/jobs/job_SVJDMjA0NTM.htm" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/jobs/job_SVJDMjA0NTM.htm&source=gmail&ust=1547287155373000&usg=AFQjCNEIxK9pGx7JdYLY7ekZOb0U8S-5hg" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk579105" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/<wbr>work/jobs/job_SVJDMjA0NTM.htm</a></div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Job Details:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Applications are sought for 2 full-time Research Associates in the Interaction Lab at Heriot-Watt University. The Research Assistants will work on the EPSRC project "MaDrIgAL - Multi-Dimensional Interaction Management and Adaptive Learning" (EP/N017536/1) to investigate, develop, and evaluate response generation in spoken dialogue systems. In particular, we seek a candidate with experience in machine learning approaches to NLP/ dialogue systems, and closely related fields.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Location:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The successful candidate will join and collaborate with a group of 7 faculty members, 6 postdoctoral researchers and >10 PhD students. Our team was competing in the Amazon Alexa Finals twice in a row (<a href="https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://developer.amazon.com/alexaprize&source=gmail&ust=1547287155373000&usg=AFQjCNHerMbE8N1LnBIKVIyze6sIme14eA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk86556" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://developer.amazon.com/<wbr>alexaprize</a>) and is one of the biggest dialogue groups in the world. We have close ties with the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and we also have a weekly pub outing. The City of Edinburgh has been ranked second in a global quality of life survey (<a href="http://bit.ly/2pIhh37" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.ly/2pIhh37&source=gmail&ust=1547287155373000&usg=AFQjCNFfT0mIOw-UqvCJhYtuWDXRnqRPww" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk990246" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">http://bit.ly/2pIhh37</a>).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Dates: </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The post is available from April 2019 until May 2020 in the first instance, with opportunities for extension. Start date is negotiable.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Salary: </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Grade 7 or 8 depending on experience (GBP 32,236.00-40,792.00).</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Key duties and responsibilities:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The main duties of the post are to perform collaborative research on the above-named EPSRC project, to contribute to research publications, to write and submit research articles, and to participate in international conferences. Detailed research duties are to implement and evaluate methods for response generation and adaptive learning in spoken dialogue systems, and to collect and analyse dialogue data.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> We are looking for:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> * Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> * Research experience in machine learning and/or NLP.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> * Evidence of a strong publication record in the aforementioned areas.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> * Excellent programming skills.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> * Good command of English in writing and speaking.</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> # Contact:</div> <div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> For informal queries please contact Prof. Verena Rieser <<a href="mailto:v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk895918" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">v.t.rieser@hw.ac.uk</a>></div> <br> <p></p> </div> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <title>Untitled Document</title> <div align="center"> <hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"> </div> <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;margin:0;"> <b><i>Heriot-Watt University is The Times & The Sunday Times International University of the Year 2018</b></i></p> <p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;margin:0;"> Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. 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