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<h1 class="lille"><small>Co-financed PhD Scholarship in Language
Technology <br>
</small></h1>
<h1 class="lille"><small>at the University of Copenhagen</small></h1>
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<p>The Centre for Language
Technology, under the Faculty of Humanities at the <br>
University of Copenhagen, is
inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in <br>
Language Technology starting 1 February,
2010 for a period of up to three years. <br>
The PhD scholar will be jointly
associated with the Centre for Language Technology <br>
and the Department of
Computer Science, both at the University of Copenhagen. </p>
<p>
<strong>Automatic knowledge extraction from linguistic corpora<br>
</strong>The PhD scholarship is announced within the interdisciplinary
research area
of <br>
Information Technology and Language, which combines knowledge in
computer
<br>
science with knowledge of linguistics. Large collections of written or
spoken
corpora <br>
are currently being developed for a large group of languages, including
Danish. <br>
Tagged corpora make it possible to train machine learning algorithms
and
other <br>
statistical models which are able to extract different kinds of
knowledge
from language data.
</p>
<p>
This knowledge may concern syntactic or semantic information at word
level,
for <br>
example parts of speech or meaning in a given context. Or it can relate
to
syntactic <br>
structure - how to assign constituent or dependency structure to
phrases. Finally, <br>
it may concern the content of written or spoken corpora,
which is generally defined <br>
and represented in very different ways depending on
the model and the purpose.
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<p>
The PhD project should
focus on one or more of these aspects of knowledge extraction, <br>
and the PhD scholar
should relate to relevant language technology applications, for <br>
instance
development of lexical resources (computational lexicons and wordnets),
<br>
grammar
in relation to parsing or statistically-based machine translation,
knowledge
<br>
extraction for expert systems or training of response types in adaptive
dialogue systems.
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For further information see <br>
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