33.3886, Support: Computational Linguistics; English: PhD, King's College London, United Kingdom

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Subject: 33.3886, Support: Computational Linguistics; English: PhD, King's College London, United Kingdom

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From: Barbara McGillivray [barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; English: PhD, King's College London


Institution/Organization: King's College London
Department: Digital Humanities
Web Address: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/areas/d
igital-humanities-research-mphil-phd#:~:tex

Level: MA /Msc

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

A fully funded PhD position is now available at King’s College London
on the project “‘Lost for words’: semantic search in the Find Case Law
service of The National Archives”, a Collaborative Doctoral Award
received by King’s College London in collaboration with The National
Archives and funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership
(LAHP). This interdisciplinary project is an exciting opportunity to
work in natural language processing (particularly computational
semantics and information retrieval) applied to legal texts and
digital humanities.

About the project:
Access to case law is vital for safeguarding the constitutional right
of access to justice. It enables members of the public to understand
their position when facing litigation and to scrutinise court
judgements. Since April 2022, UK court and tribunal decisions are
preserved by The National Archives’ Find Case Law service as freely
accessible online public records. This project seeks to improve Find
Case Law by enhancing it with meaning-sensitive (semantic) search
functionality. It will study how individuals without legal training
use language to navigate court judgments and it will develop tools to
facilitate this navigation. In most digital cultural heritage
catalogues, while we can search for words within the metadata
describing their records, we cannot search for records based on the
meaning of words contained within these records, for example the
different words to refer to “knife crime”. Therefore, users’ access to
collection is determined by their ability to articulate their
information need precisely. Recent advances in natural language
processing unlock new possibilities for querying documents via
state-of-the-art semantic search. Incorporating such search
capabilities in the Find Case Law collection is crucial for
democratising access to digital collections, helping expose the social
impact of how the law is written.

About application process:
Applicants will need to submit an application for a PhD in Digital
Humanities at King’s (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-researc
h/areas/digital-humanities-research-mphil-phd#:~:text=The%20Department
%20of%20Digital%20Humanities,%2C%20arts%2C%20culture%20and%20society)
and an application for the LAHP (https://www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st
udents/collaborative-doctoral-awards-projects-available/). Both
applications need to be submitted by 27 January 2023 at 5pm.

Application Deadline: 27-Jan-2023

Web Address for Applications: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlo
ok.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lahp.ac.uk%2Fprospective-students%2Fcoll
aborative-doctoral-awards-projects-avail

Contact Information:
Dr Barbara McGillivray
barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk



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