FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS
UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
School of Informatics
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
UK Research and Innovation has recently announced funding for a Centre
for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing (CDT in NLP) at
the University of Edinburgh. This CDT offers unique, tailored research
training consisting of taught courses and a doctoral dissertation.
Both components run concurrently over four years. Each student will
take a set of courses tailored to their research training needs. They
will received full funding for four years, plus generous funding 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 over 40 world-class
faculty (Edinburgh has the most productive NLP group in the world,
csrankings.org) and will benefit from cutting edge computing and
experimental facilities, including a large GPU cluster and
eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality, and visualization labs. The CDT
involves over 20 industrial partners, including Amazon, Facebook,
Huawei, Microsoft, Mozilla, Reuters, Toshiba, and the BBC. Close links
also exist with the Alan Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre.
The first cohort of CDT students will start in September 2019, and we
are now seeking applications. 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 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 8 studentships are available, covering both maintenance
at the research council rate of GBP 15,009 per year and tuition fees.
Studentships are available for UK, EU, and non-EU nationals.
Applicants should have a strong undergraduate degree in computer
science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline.
Details regarding the CDT training program and the application
procedure can be found at:
http://www.edinburghnlp.org/cdt/
Please apply by 29 March 2019 to ensure full consideration (though we
may be able to consider late applications). Please direct inquiries to
the PhD admissions team atcdt-nlp-admissi...@inf.ed.ac.uk.
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Rico Sennrich
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, United Kingdom
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rsennric/
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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