[Corpora-List] NLP Research Studentship

[William Ralph Keller]

                           UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

                        DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS

                        PhD. Studentship Available

A 3-year PhD studentship is available starting on or around 1st January
2004, associated with a UK EPSRC-funded project "Natural Language
Service Composition".

The utility of the ubiquitous computing environment will be greatly
enhanced when users are able to tailor the environment by composing
services to meet their individual needs. This project is exploring the
use of speech and natural language processing techniques to help make
service composition a reality for non-technical users. The aim is to
develop an interactive, service composition tool using a speech
interface with which users can compose new features from the available
network services. The associated PhD studentship would be suitable for
someone interested in carrying out research in areas such as

   * automated extraction of domain terminology/lexical acquisition for
     practical language processing systems
   * techniques for integrating ontological and linguistic knowledge
   * robust language processing techniques for speech understanding in
     a constrained domain of discourse
   * user interfaces combining speech and language with other
     modalities

Applicants for the studentship should have a good first degree and/or
postgraduate qualification in computer science, computer processing of
language, or similar. The studentship covers tuition fees for EU
nationals; the project also pays a (tax-free) stipend starting at UKP
8000 a year. The grants include funds for attendance at relevant
workshops and conferences.

The successful applicant will join a dynamic project team consisting of
6 faculty and other researchers with expertise in natural language
processing and networked systems. The Natural Language and Computational
Linguistics (NLCL) group at the University of Sussex has a
distinguished, international track record for research in natural
language processing and is one of the largest in the UK focusing on
statistical and corpus-based methods. It currently consists of around 20
faculty, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, headed by 2 professors.
For information about other language processing work as the University
of Sussex
see: <http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/>.

Interested candidates should email their CV (as plain text, postscript,
or pdf) as soon as possible to:

Dr. Bill Keller
email: billk at sussex.ac.uk