[Corpora-List] NICTA PhD Scholarships in Language Technology, Melbourne University, Australia

[Steven Bird]

National ICT Australia --- www.nicta.com.au
NICTA Victoria Laboratories, University of Melbourne

The Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery Project, lead by
Steven Bird, has funding for PhD scholarships in language technology,
with a closing date of 31 October 2004.

Research areas covered by this project include:
o question answering and summarization
o automatic content extraction
o geographical and temporal IR
o rhetorical structure, document structure and layout
o multimodal integration
o high performance computing for NLP
o semistructured query languages

More information about the research group is available at:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/lt/

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Further details about NICTA PhD Scholarships

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia's Information Communication
Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence funded under the Commonwealth
Government's  Backing Australia's Ability policy.

NICTA Scholarships, in the areas of information and communications
technology, are available for high achieving students commencing a PhD
or a Masters leading to PhD within the Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering or the Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

NICTA Scholarships will provide tax free stipends of up to AUD$24,000
per annum. In some cases a fee remission scholarship may be offered to
overseas students. For students who successfully obtain other
scholarships, such as the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), NICTA
funded top up scholarships may be available.

Applications for immediate commencement, or commencement up until March
2005, may be made at any time up to the closing date of 31 October 2004.
For further information, and application forms, please contact Debbie
Staunton on +61 3 8344 6689 or deborah at unimelb.edu.au or visit
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/postgraduate.