PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE
SCIENCE
Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University
of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in
September 2018. ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research
on computational approaches to language, communication and cognition.
Primary research areas in ILCC include:
* Natural language processing and computational linguistics
* Spoken language processing
* Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
* Information retrieval and information visualization
* Cognitive modeling of language and speech processing and of human
decision making
* Educational and assistive technology, human-computer interaction,
learning analytics
Approximately 15 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering
both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 14,553 per year and
tuition fees. Studentships are available for UK, EU, and non-EU nationals.
Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computer science,
cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline.
For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a list of
indicative PhD topics, please consult:
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff
http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc
Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found
at:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all
supporting documents) need to be received by 8 December 2017. Please direct
inquiries to the PhD admissions team [email protected].
You may also be interested in pursuing a PhD in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral
Training in Data Science at Edinburgh, which includes NLP as one of its
research areas. The application for this programme is separate. For details,
please consult:
http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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