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== Thinking about Joining Us? ==
== Thinking about Joining Us? ==
INESC ID is one of the largest and most dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the areas of telecommunications, information systems and electronics with the status of associated laboratory given by the Portuguese government. The ''Laboratório de sistemas de Língua Falada'' (L2F), or Spoken Language Systems Lab provides an interdisciplinary and creative work environment active in multiple areas of speech and language research. These include  
INESC-ID is one of the largest and most dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the areas of telecommunications, information systems and electronics with the status of associated laboratory given by the Portuguese government. The HLT lab provides an interdisciplinary and creative work environment active in multiple areas of speech and language research. These include (without limitation):


* speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement and understanding, speech to speech translation
* speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement and understanding, speech to speech translation
* speaker, language and accent identification, computational paralinguistics
* speaker, language and accent identification, computational paralinguistics
* music genre classification, audio finger-printing and retrieval, multi-document summarization of multimedia (audio + video + text)
* music genre classification, audio finger-printing and retrieval, multi-document summarization of multimedia (audio + video + text)
* machine translation, summarization, sentiment analysis
* machine translation, summarization, sentiment analysis
* natural language generation, syntactic and semantic processing, named entity retrieval
* natural language generation, syntactic and semantic processing, named entity retrieval
* multimodal dialogue systems, question answering, etc.  
* multimodal dialogue systems, question answering, etc.  


Have a look at our recent [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/Projects projects] and [https://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/wiki/index.php/Demos demos].  
Have a look at our [[Projects|projects]] and [[Demos|demos]].  


L2F has its own powerful IT infrastructure within INESC-ID including
We have our own powerful IT infrastructure, allowing state-of-the-art research:


* Robust and fast shared filesystems for storage and processing of very large data-sets
* Robust and fast shared filesystems for storage and processing of very large data-sets
* A computer cluster featuring parallel computing utilities
* High performance computing units with GPUs
* Other convenient services, among which: VPN, SSH, and private source control repositories.
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* A computer cluster with Hadoop and condor among other parallel computing utilities
Finally, it is also worth mentioning that Lisbon offers a high quality of life while being one of the least expensive capitals in Europe. Check it yourself [http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living here].  
 
* Dedicated computing units with GPUs and intel-phi CPUs
 
* VPN, ssh as well as hosting for CVS, SVN and Git repositories.
 
This infrastructure also provides online services to various academic and private sector partners. We have a strong cooperation with our spin-off [http://www.voiceinteraction.pt/ VoiceInteraction] and with well established industrial partners such as [http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/mldc/ Microsoft], as well as startups from our own group such as [https://unbabel.com/ Unbabel]. 
 
Finally, it is also worth mentioning that Lisbon offers a high quality of life while being one of the least expensive capitals in Europe, test it yourself [http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living here].
 
Want to joint us?. Have a look at the opportunities below. If there aren't any at the time, feel also free to send us an email to find out about potential openings or partnerships.  


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== Ph.D. Program CMU-Portugal ==
== Ph.D. Program CMU-Portugal ==
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== Post-Doc Fellowship in Project INSIDE ==
== Opportunities for Students ==


This is a 3 year position, starting in April 2015.
Every semester, new MSc thesis topics are available. If you have an idea, contact us: you may find a host here.


INSIDE is a joint research project involving Portuguese academic/industrial partners and the Carnegie Mellon University. The project explores symbiotic child-robot interactions in joint cooperative activities, with application to the treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder impairments.
Prospective PhD students are also encouraged to contact us.
 
Your role would be related to speech processing in environmentally challenging conditions and with limited adaptation data available. Research will be focused on static and dynamic adaptation of models starting from our current research on deep learning and observation uncertainty techniques.
 
We are looking for candidates with following experience:
 
* Robust ASR/KWS
* Neural networks
* Python, bash scripting and C/C++
 
Additional experience welcome
 
* Computational Paralinguistics
* Python-theano
* Knowledge of the Portuguese language
* Missing features / Observation uncertainty
 
If interested, send a curriculum vitae (highlighting publications relevant to the position) and a motivation letter to ramon.astudillo@l2f.inesc-id.pt before March 15.
 
 
 
== Opportunities for Students ==
 
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== Other Information ==
== Other Information ==

Latest revision as of 08:29, 11 February 2020

Thinking about Joining Us?

INESC-ID is one of the largest and most dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the areas of telecommunications, information systems and electronics with the status of associated laboratory given by the Portuguese government. The HLT lab provides an interdisciplinary and creative work environment active in multiple areas of speech and language research. These include (without limitation):

  • speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement and understanding, speech to speech translation
  • speaker, language and accent identification, computational paralinguistics
  • music genre classification, audio finger-printing and retrieval, multi-document summarization of multimedia (audio + video + text)
  • machine translation, summarization, sentiment analysis
  • natural language generation, syntactic and semantic processing, named entity retrieval
  • multimodal dialogue systems, question answering, etc.

Have a look at our projects and demos.

We have our own powerful IT infrastructure, allowing state-of-the-art research:

  • Robust and fast shared filesystems for storage and processing of very large data-sets
  • A computer cluster featuring parallel computing utilities
  • High performance computing units with GPUs
  • Other convenient services, among which: VPN, SSH, and private source control repositories.

Finally, it is also worth mentioning that Lisbon offers a high quality of life while being one of the least expensive capitals in Europe. Check it yourself here.

Have a look at the opportunities below. If there aren't any at the time, feel also free to send us an email to find out about potential openings or partnerships.

Ph.D. Program CMU-Portugal

Opportunities for Students

Every semester, new MSc thesis topics are available. If you have an idea, contact us: you may find a host here.

Prospective PhD students are also encouraged to contact us.

Other Information