[Corpora-List] PhD Scholarship: Natural Language Processing for Reception Research

[Paul Buitelaar]

PhD Scholarship available in Natural Language Processing for Reception 
Research (NUI Galway, Ireland)

This Scholarship is affiliated with the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The 
Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700. It 
will focus on Natural Language Processing methods for the purpose of 
harvesting quantitative data of use to reception research; specifically, 
data relating to how women’s writing was read in the early modern 
period, sourced from secondary literature. For this position, we are 
seeking applicants with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer 
Science or Information Technology, and with an interest in Digital 
Humanities.  This PhD Scholar will be co-supervised by Dr. Marie-Louise 
Coolahan (English) and Dr. Paul Buitelaar (DERI/INSIGHT) at NUI Galway. 
As well as joining the RECIRC research team, s/he will be part of the 
Digital Arts & Humanities (DAH) programme at NUI Galway (see 
http://dahphd.ie). The DAH is a full-time interdisciplinary structured 
PhD programme drawing on the strengths of a consortium of Irish 
universities committed to digital scholarship and practice. The 
programme includes core and optional educational modules on digital 
tools and methodologies as well as a six-week practical placement in the 
third year. The successful candidate is expected to have practical 
experience with relevant NLP technologies for and approaches to 
information extraction.

This scholarship is worth €16,000, plus fees, per year for four years. 
It will commence in September 2014.

Further informal enquiries concerning these positions may be made by 
contacting Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan: marielouise.coolahan at nuigalway.ie

To Apply: Please send a curriculum vitae and statement of interest to 
martha.shaughnessy at nuigalway.ie  Applications must be received on or 
before 5pm, Friday 30th May 2014. Please also arrange for two academic 
referees to write on your behalf to the same address before the above 
closing date. Late and incomplete applications cannot be considered. 
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to a skype interview.

For further details, see: 
http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/recirc_phd_scholarship.html

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