LINGUIST List 29.633
Wed Feb 07 2018
Support: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Edinburgh
Editor for this issue: Clare Harshey <clarelinguistlist.org>
Date: 06-Feb-2018
From: Frank Keller <keller
inf.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Cognitive
Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Edinburgh,
UK
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message to a friend Department: Institute for Language, Cognition
and Computation
Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: University of
Edinburgh
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics
Description:
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
Funding:
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.
Requirements:
*** Studentships are
available for UK and EU/EEA nationals only.*** 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 the links below.
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/study-with-us/possible-phd-topics-ilcc
About the PhD programme:
Details regarding the PhD programme and the
application procedure can be found on the Informatics website.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
How to apply:
In order to ensure full consideration for funding,
applications (including all supporting documents) need to be received by 16 March
2018. The application is entirely online.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=491
Related information:
You may also be interested in pursuing a PhD in
the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science at Edinburgh, which
includes NLP as one of its research areas. The application for this programme is
separate.
http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
Applications Deadline: 16-Mar-2018
Web Address for Applications:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
Contact Information:
Dr
Chris Lucas
ilcc-admissions
inf.ed.ac.uk
Page Updated: 07-Feb-2018