daemon@ucbvax.UUCP (08/09/84)
From GSB@MIT-MC Wed Aug 8 14:21:30 1984 -------- A major 5-year research and development project in speech recognition is to start at the University of Edinburgh in October 1984 under the direction of Dr John Laver and Dr Henry Thompson, in conjunction with members of the Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering and Linguistics. The goal of the project is a machine assisted speech transcription system - a text input device starting from spoken input, and depending on incremental interactions between user and system to develop a final text. Computing resources will include 2 VAX 11/750s running UNIX(TM Bell Laboratories) and a network of Xerox 1108s running Interlisp-D. The eventual target is the Alice parallel reduction machine. In addition to the ten people already involved, seventeen new positions are available, as listed below. For further information, write Dr J. Laver, Centre for Speech Technology Research, Department of Linguistics, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, SCOTLAND, or call 031 667-1011 x6380. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* System Integration: 1 Chief Systems Programmer/Wizard, 2 Computing Officers, 1 Communications Technician, 1 Applied Mathematician VLSI and Signal Processing: 1 Electronics Engineer Acoustic Phonetics: 1 Experimental Phonetician, 1 Phonologist Expert Systems: 2 in Knowledge Representation, 1 in Knowledge Elicitation Computational Linguistics: 1 in Lexical Access, 1 in Morphology, 1 in Chart Parsing Syntax and Semantics: 1 Grammarian, 1 Lexicographer, 1 Corpus Linguist --------