Support Announcement:

Level:	PhD
Duty:	Research,Project Work
Linguistic Field(s):	Computational Linguistics Psycholinguistics Cognitive Science
Application Deadline:	14-Dec-2012
Supporting Institution:	University of Edinburgh Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
LL Issue:	23.4495
Posted:	29-Oct-2012
Support Description:	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 2013. 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 - Spoken language processing - Dialogue and multimodal interaction - Information extraction, retrieval and presentation - Computational theories of human cognition - Educational and assistive technology Approximately 8 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering maintenance at the research council rate of around GBP 13 500 per year, plus tuition fees. Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science, computer science, or a related discipline. For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a selection of potential PhD topics, please consult: http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/people 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/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all supporting documents) need to be received by December 14, 2012. Please direct inquiries to Henry Thompson inf.ed.ac.uk>, the ILCC PhD admissions coordinator.
Application Web Address:	http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=491&cw_xml=details.php
Contact Information:	Prof Henry Thompson ht@inf.ed.ac.uk