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<TT>Up to three PhD scholarships starting in October 2007 are available in the<BR>
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Partnership International for Research and Education (PIRE)<BR>
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Meaning Representations in Language Understanding<BR>
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The partnership for research and education (PIRE), established in 2005,<BR>
is a collaborative PhD programme between <BR>
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* Saarland University, Germany<BR>
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* the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing headed by<BR>
Eugene Charniak <BR>
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* The Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing<BR>
(CLSP) headed by Frederick Jelinek <BR>
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* Charles University (Jan Hajic), Czech Republic.<BR>
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PIRE is also affiliated with our existing International Research<BR>
Training Group (IRTG) co-operation with Edinburgh University. <BR>
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Each scholarship is funded for two years, normally extendable for a<BR>
third year. Doctoral degrees may be obtained in computational<BR>
linguistics, phonetics, or informatics, from Saarland University. The<BR>
official language of the programme is English. Distinguishing features<BR>
of the cooperation include:<BR>
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- Joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and<BR>
our US partner universities<BR>
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- A six month research stay either at Brown University or at Johns<BR>
Hopkins University<BR>
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- An intensive research exchange programme between all four universities<BR>
involved in PIRE.<BR>
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PhD projects will be in the area of meaning representation for natural<BR>
language processing and suitable applications like machine translation<BR>
or speech reconstruction.<BR>
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The scholarship currently provides EURO 1468 per month. Additional<BR>
compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel<BR>
funding, support for carrying out experiments, and an additional monthly<BR>
allowance for the duration of the stay in the US. Applicants should hold<BR>
a strong university degree equivalent to the German Diplom or Magister<BR>
(e.g. Master's level) in a relevant discipline, and should not be more<BR>
than 28 years of age. Women and international students are particularly<BR>
encouraged to apply.<BR>
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Deadline for applications: 30 April, 2007<BR>
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Applications should be sent electronically to:<BR>
<A HREF="mailto:pire-admin@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE"><U>pire-admin@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE</U></A><BR>
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To be fully considered, please include:<BR>
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- a curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, disciplines covered<BR>
(e.g. list of courses ), publications, and other relevant experience<BR>
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- a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,<BR>
preferably in English)<BR>
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- copies of high school and university certificates, and transcripts<BR>
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- two references (e-mailed directly to the PIRE office<BR>
(<A HREF="mailto:verburg@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE"><U>verburg@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE</U></A>) before the deadline)<BR>
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- a statement of research interests, previous knowledge and activities<BR>
in any of the relevant research areas.<BR>
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If you have already applied for our IRTG postions<BR>
(<A HREF="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/announcement/"><U>http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/announcement/</U></A>) or are<BR>
planing to do so, you do not need to send your complete application<BR>
again, but just a short note, that you would also like to be considered<BR>
for PIRE.<BR>
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In case an application can only be submitted by regular post, it should<BR>
be sent to:<BR>
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PIRE office<BR>
Claudia Verburg<BR>
Department of Computational Linguistics<BR>
Saarland University<BR>
P.O. Box 15 11 50<BR>
D-66041 Saarbruecken<BR>
Germany<BR>
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If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow<BR>
(<A HREF="mailto:pire-admin@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE"><U>pire-admin@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE</U></A>).<BR>
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For more information see also<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.pire.uni-saarland.de/index.html">http://www.pire.uni-saarland.de/index.html</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/research/pire/"><U>http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/research/pire/</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/">http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/igk/</A><BR>
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