18.732, Support: Meaning Represent in Lang Understanding: PhD Student, Saarland U

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Date: 09-Mar-2007
From: Dietrich Klakow < Dietrich.Klakow at coli.uni-saarland.de >
Subject: Meaning Representations in Language Understanding: PhD Student, Saarland University, Germany 

	
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:13:05
From: Dietrich Klakow < Dietrich.Klakow at coli.uni-saarland.de >
Subject: Meaning Representations in Language Understanding: PhD Student, Saarland University, Germany 
 

Institution/Organization: Saarland University 
Department: Computational Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.pire.uni-saarland.de/index.html 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 

Description:

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

Application Deadline: 30-Apr-2007 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: PIRE office, Claudia Verburg 
	Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University 
	P.O. Box 15 11 50 
	D-66041 Saarbruecken 
	Germany 	
	
Web Address for Applications: http://www.pire.uni-saarland.de/index.html 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dietrich Klakow 
	pire-admin at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE





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