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 2019. ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research
on computational approaches to language, communication and cognition.
Primary research areas include:
* 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 behavior, 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
Approximately 15 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering
both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 14,777 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 10 December 2018. Please direct
inquiries to the PhD admissions team [email protected]
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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