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<FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>PhD opportunities, Australian National University and the University of Sydney <BR>
(from Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews and Jane Simpson)<BR>
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Applications are being sought from potential doctoral candidates interested in enrolling in a PhD at the Australian National University or the University of Sydney, within the framework of the project 'Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus'. <BR>
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<B>Project background<BR>
</B>The objective of this project is to develop a good computationally tractable lexicon and grammar for modern Indonesian. The rigorous analysis and testing required for this will result in empirically robust and linguistically well-grounded analyses of Indonesian.The grammar and lexicon are being build within the framework of the Parallel Grammar project (Pargram) (<FONT COLOR="#2300FF"><U><a href="http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/Pargram/">http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/Pargram/</a></U></FONT>), based on the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) model of grammar. <BR>
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Funding for this follow-up project was awarded by the Australian Research Council to a team including Wayan Arka and Avery Andrews (Australian National University) and Jane Simpson (University of Sydney), and runs from 2008 to 2010..<BR>
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<B>Doctoral topics<BR>
</B>This project would suit students interested in computational linguistics, or in corpus building, or in the descriptive grammar of Indonesian, or in Lexical Functional Grammar. <BR>
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Applicants should state which of the above projects they would be interested in working on, and on which university they would prefer to be based at. <BR>
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<B>Facilities and support<BR>
</B> Project applicants should apply for regular scholarship funding through the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Some stipend support is available through the project. In addition, the project has support for participation in national and international project meetings. <BR>
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<B>Prerequisites<BR>
</B>Applicants should possess a strong background in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics or Computer Science, to Honours Level (in the Australian system) or Master’s Level (in the European and American systems). Native speakers of varieties of Indonesian or Malay are particularly encouraged to apply.<BR>
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<B>What to do<BR>
</B>Interested applicants should contact Wayan Arka (Australian National University) <wayan.arka AT anu.edu.au> or Avery Andrews <avery.andrews AT anu.edu.au> or Jane Simpson (University of Sydney) Jane Simpson <jane.simpson AT usyd.edu.au>, and then apply for admission to the programmes as well as for scholarships.<BR>
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<B><I>Australian National University <BR>
</I></B>Information on ANU scholarships is available at: <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/index.php">http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/index.php</a><BR>
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Australian and New Zealand students: To be considered for a regular scholarship, applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia or New Zealand with a good honours degree in linguistics or equivalent. An application must be submitted for admission to the PhD program and an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and ANU Scholarship at Australian National University. The form for this may be downloaded from <FONT COLOR="#2300FF"><U><a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/sas/forms/sas25local.pdf">http://www.anu.edu.au/sas/forms/sas25local.pdf</a></U></FONT>. <BR>
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Please contact Dr Wayan Arka and Dr Avery Andrews to discuss whether to apply <BR>
in the Graduate Studies Field of Linguistics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies or in the Faculty of Arts (Question 9 on the form). Note that, as described at 16 in the form, you will need to arrange for reports from three referees, on the forms that are provided with application form. Note that the deadline for both the application and the referees reports is Oct. 31, 2008, but you should contact Arka or Andrews well before that to discuss your application.<BR>
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International students should check out the range of scholarships listed at <FONT COLOR="#2300FF"><U><a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/international_only.php">http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/international_only.php</a></U></FONT>, as well as at <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/all.php.">http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/all.php.</a> Applications for these are highly competitive.<BR>
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<B><I>University of Sydney<BR>
</I></B><a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/apply/index.shtml">http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/apply/index.shtml</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/international/postgrad/apply/pg_inter_application-research.pd">http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/international/postgrad/apply/pg_inter_application-research.pd</a><BR>
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS<BR>
APPLICATION CLOSING DATES (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)<BR>
Semester 1 (March commencement) - 31 October of the previous year<BR>
Semester 2 (July commencement) - 30 April<BR>
Late or incomplete applications may be considered however, the University of Sydney cannot guarantee that late applications will be processed in time for the proposed start date. Quotas apply to some courses. Late applications for courses which are subject to quotas may not be considered.<BR>
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<B>Scholarship Applicants<BR>
Applicants who wish to be considered for either an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) or a University<BR>
of Sydney International Scholarship (USydIS) must submit their applications at the earlier dates specified below:<BR>
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Semester 1 (March commencement)<BR>
</B>31 July of the previous year<BR>
(successful candidates will be notified in late October/early November)<BR>
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<B>Semester 2 (July commencement)<BR>
</B>31 December of the previous year<BR>
(successful candidates will be notified in April)<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">Application closing dates<BR>
</FONT>LOCAL STUDENTS<BR>
Information on applying for admission to a research program can be found at:<BR>
<a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/index.shtml">http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/index.shtml</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml">http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml</a><BR>
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Information on scholarships for Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens can be found at:<BR>
<a href="http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml">http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml</a><BR>
Closing date: 31st October 2009<BR>
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