FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

- UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING


Based at the University of Edinburgh: in conjunction with the School of 
Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.


Deadlines:
* Non UK :    25th November 2022
* UK :            27th January 2023


Applications are now sought for the UKRI CDT in NLP’s fifth and final cohort of 
students, which will start in September 2023.


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The CDT in NLP offers unique, tailored doctoral training comprising both taught 
courses and a doctoral dissertation over four years. 


Each student will take a set of courses designed to complement their existing 
expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP.  


The studentships are fully funded for the four years and come with a generous 
allowance for travel, equipment and research costs.


The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics, cognitive 
science and design informatics from across the University of Edinburgh.   
Students will be supervised by a world-class faculty comprising almost 60 
supervisors and will benefit from cutting edge computing and experimental 
facilities, including a large GPU cluster and eye-tracking, speech, virtual 
reality and visualisation labs. 


The CDT involves a number of industrial partners, including Amazon, Facebook, 
Huawei, Microsoft, Naver, Toshiba, and the BBC.  Links also exist with the Alan 
Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre.


A wide range of research topics fall within the remit of the CDT:


* Natural language processing and computational linguistics
* Speech technology
* Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
* Information retrieval and visualization, computational social science
* Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including language and 
speech processing 
* Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and educational 
technology 
* Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution, language 
variation and change
* Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing.


The next cohort of CDT students will start in September 2023.  Around 12 
studentships are available, covering maintenance at the UKRI rate (currently 
£17,668 per year) plus tuition fees.  


Studentships are open to all nationalities and we are particularly keen to 
receive applications from women, minority groups and members of other groups 
that are underrepresented in technology.  Applicants in possession of other 
funding scholarships or industry funding are also welcome to apply – please 
provide details of your funding source on your application.


Applicants should have an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, 
linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline; or have a breadth 
of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc.      


Further details, including the application procedure, can be found at: 
https://edin.ac/cdt-in-nlp 


Application Deadlines: Early application is encouraged but completed 
applications must be received at the latest by:


* 25th November 2022 (non UK applicants) or 27th January 2023 (UK applicants).


Enquiries: Please direct any enquiries to the CDT admissions team at: 
[email protected].


CDT in NLP Virtual Open Day: Find out more about the programme by attending the 
PG Virtual Open Week in November.  Click here to register: 
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-days-events-visits/open-days/postgraduate-virtual-open-days

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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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