[Corpora-List] PhD Studentships: Language Technology and Cognitive Systems

[Matthew Crocker]

Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany, anticipates the availability
of up to six doctoral scholarships within the:

		 International Post-Graduate College
	     "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
		       Saarbruecken - Edinburgh
				
Scholarships will begin in April 2004. Each scholarship will be funded
for two years (normally extendable for a third year). Doctoral degrees
may be obtained in computational linguistics, phonetics, or
informatics, from Saarland University. The official language of the
programme is English, and dissertations may be written in German or
English.

The International Post-Graduate College was been established in 2001
as a collaborative PhD programme between Saarland University and the
University of Edinburgh - two leading institutions in the fields of
computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive
science. The participating departments in Saarbruecken are: the
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the
Department of Computer Science. In Edinburgh, the College is supported
by the School of Informatics; the School of Philosophy, Psychology and
Language Sciences; and the Human Communication Research Centre.

The nature of the cooperation includes:

* Joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken
	and Edinburgh
* A six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
* An intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
   	Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum attended
   	by college members and lecturers from both centres)

The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of
human language processing, particularly emphasizing the following
research areas:

* Language understanding (including spoken language processing,
  	cognitive modelling, and experimental psycholinguistics)
* Knowledge representation, inference, the lexicon, and ontologies
* Data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and
  	statistical language processing)
* Dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)

Academic staff in Saarbruecken are W. Barry, M. Crocker, D. Klakow, G.
Kruijff, I. Kruijff-Korbayova, A. Melinger, M. Pinkal, G. Smolka,
H. Uszkoreit, W. Wahlster.

In Edinburgh, participating staff include E. Klein, F. Keller, A.
Lascarides,
R. Ladd, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering,
M. Steedman, and B. Webber.

For more information about the graduate college and current members,
prospective applicants are encouraged to look at our website:
	http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk

The scholarship currently provides EURO 1468 per month. Additional
compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel
funding, support for carrying out experiments, and an additional
monthly allowance of approximately EURO 737 for the duration of the
stay in Edinburgh.

Applicants should hold a strong university degree equivalent to the
German Diplom or Magister (e.g. Master's level), in relevant discipline.
Applicants should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists
and international students are particularly encouraged to apply.

Applications should include:

1. a curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, disciplines covered
    (e.g. list of courses or transcript), publications, and other
    relevant experience

2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,
    preferably in English)

3. copies of high school and university certificates

4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker by the
    deadline)

5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge
    and activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter
    should indicate the approximate area in which the dissertation is
    to be conducted (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics,
    phonetics, or informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a
    brief outline of research interests to be pursued within the
    scholarship.

Closing date for applications is December 19, 2003. Applications
should be sent to the speaker of the college:

Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Germany

Electronic applications are also welcome. Please include all
application materials in a single attachment (e.g. a zipped
directory). Applications should be sent to the e-mail address below.

Tel:   +49 (0)681 302-6560     E-mail:   egk-admin at coli.uni-sb.de
Fax:  +49 (0)681 302-6561     Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk