[Corpora-List] PhD positions in Edinburgh

[Mirella Lapata]

PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, 
AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), the Institute of
Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), and the Human
Communication Research Centre (HCRC) at the University of Edinburgh
invite applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in
September 2010.

CSTR and ICCS combine to form the world's largest concentration of
researchers studying the theoretical, computational, and cognitive
aspects of language and speech. HCRC provides an interdisciplinary
research environment that includes staff from the School of
Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language
Sciences pursuing research into the communication among humans and
between humans and machines, using text, speech, and graphics. All
three Institutes also have a strong track record in applied and
industry-sponsored research.

PhD students will work on topics drawn from the following areas
(potential supervisors are listed in brackets):

o Speech technology (Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, Hiroshi
  Shimodaira): conversational agents, multimodal interaction, prosody
  and information structure, speech recognition, speech synthesis

o Cognitive science (Jean Carletta, Sharon Goldwater, Frank Keller,
  John Lee, Jon Oberlander, Helen Pain): models of human language
  processing, models of human learning, educational technology,
  graphical communication

o Computational linguistics (Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Philipp Koehn,
  Mirella Lapata, Viktor Lavrenko, Alex Lascarides, Colin Matheson,
  Johanna Moore, Miles Osborne, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Richard
  Tobin, Bonnie Webber): annotation and markup, biomedical NLP,
  computational semantics, discourse and dialogue, information
  extraction, information retrieval, machine translation, generation,
  parsing, question answering, statistical NLP

For a list of potential PhD project, please consult:

http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/pgrguide/prospectus/research-topics/institute-for-communicating-and-collaborative

Approximately 12 studentships from a variety of sources are available
to cover maintenance at the standard research council rate of
approximately GBP 12.000 per year and tuition fees. Funding is limited
to UK and EU students.

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science,
computer science, or a related discipline.

For further information please contact Dr. Hiroshi Shimodaira
(hshimoda at inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply
are available from:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd.html

Applications are considered at any time, but to maximize funding
options, applicants are encouraged to contact potential supervisors
immediately and to submit applications by the beginning of April 2010.

For general information on Informatics, CSTR, ICCS, and HCRC, please
visit:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/



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