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      <h1><small><small>2 PhD Research Studentships <br>
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      <h1><small><small><small>Personalised Summary Generation </small></small></small></h1>
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      <h1><small><small><small>Machine Learning Methods for User
              Modelling and Personalised Summarisation</small></small></small></h1>
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href="http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACE552/phd-research-studentship-machine-learning-methods-for-user-modelling-and-personalised-summarisation/">http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACE552/phd-research-studentship-machine-learning-methods-for-user-modelling-and-personalised-summarisation/</a><br>
      <h2><small><small><small>Natural Language Processing Research
              Group,<big> </big></small><small><strong>University of
                Sheffield</strong> - Department of Computer Science</small></small></small></h2>
      <p>Applications are invited for two fully funded PhD studentships
        on the topics stated above.</p>
      <p><small><strong>Application closing date is 4 March 2011.</strong></small></p>
      <p>Further particulars on each of the studentships as well as
        eligibility criteria are available from the URLs above.<br>
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      <p>Candidates should have a First Class Honours or a good 2.1
        degree in Computer Science or Mathematics and have excellent
        computer programming skills. Experience with natural language
        processing is essential, and detailed knowledge of machine
        learning, text summarisation and/or natural language generation
        would be highly desirable. Research experience with Facebook,
        Twitter, and other social media would also be desirable, but is
        not strictly necessary, as would be knowledge of GATE.</p>
      <p>For further information please contact Dr Kalina Bontcheva (<a
          href="mailto:K.Bontcheva@dcs.shef.ac.uk">K.Bontcheva@dcs.shef.ac.uk</a>)
        or Dr Trevor Cohn (<a href="mailto:tcohn@dcs.shef.ac.uk">tcohn@dcs.shef.ac.uk</a>)
        (only for the studentship on machine learning).</p>
      <p>Applicants should apply using the online application form at:</p>
      <p><a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply">http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply</a></p>
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