Ph.D. scholarship on Induction of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Resources for Italian 2004-2007
Applications are invited under the Embark Initiative's Postgraduate Research Scholarship Scheme for a joint IRCSET/IBM funded Ph.D. studentship on the induction of wide-coverage, probabilistic Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) resources from treebanks for Italian. The project starts October 2004. Funding is for 3 years at a rate of approx. euro 12,000 p/a and fees. Application deadline is Friday 20th August, 2004.
Traditionally, rich constraint-based grammars such as LFG and HPSG have been hand-crafted. Scaling such grammars to unrestricted text is time-consuming and expensive. Recently (Cahill, Burke, O'Donovan, van Genabith and Way, 2004) and (Miyao and Tsujii, 2004) have shown how rich LFG and HPSG resources can be acquired from treebanks. In this project we extend the approach of Cahill et al. 2004 to acquire LFG resources for Italian.
Our ideal candidates have a strong background in Computing, Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with programming experience in one or more of Java, Perl, C++, Prolog, Lisp etc. Competence in Italian (in addition to English) will be important. Knowledge of LFG, HPSG or similar constraint-based grammar formalisms will be useful. A strong interest in and motivation for research are essential.
Application forms are available from
http://www.ircset.ie/grant_schemes/postgrad.html
For inquiries and further details, please contact:
Josef van Genabith and Andy Way School of Computing National Centre for Language Technology Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland. [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/nclt/
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