[Corpora-List] PhD Studentships at ILCC, University of Edinburgh; deadline Jan 14, 2011

[Frank Keller]

PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

*** Note earlier deadline ***
 
The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the
University of Edinburgh (formerly ICCS) invites applications for
three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2011. ILCC is
dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research on
computational approaches to language, communication and cognition.
Primary research areas include:

    * Natural language processing and computational linguistics

    * Spoken language processing

    * Dialogue and multimodal interaction

    * Information extraction, retrieval and presentation

    * Computational theories of human cognition

    * Educational and assistive technology

Approximately 10 studentships from a variety of sources are available,
covering maintenance at the research council rate of around GBP 13 500
per year, plus tuition fees.

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science,
computer science, or a related discipline.

For a list of academic staff at ILCC, their research areas, and a
description of potential PhD topics, please consult:

http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/

Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can
be found at:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/degrees/phd

In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications
(including all supporting documents) need to be received by 
January 14, 2011.

Please direct inquiries to Hiroshi Shimodaira <h.shimodaira at ed.ac.uk>,
the ILCC PhD admissions coordinator.

-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.


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