[Corpora-List] PhD scholarships in Computational Linguistics -- applications due 21st February 2011

[Mark Johnson]

PhD SCHOLARSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

We're recruiting PhD students to work on two computational linguistics 
projects.

The first project involves developing computational models of human 
language acquisition. These computational models will be used to study 
synergies in the acquisition of one or more of phonetics, phonology, 
morphology, syntax and semantics. The work involves novel computational 
approaches to modelling language acquisition, including hierarchical 
non-parametric Bayesian techniques.   You will be housed in the 
Department of Computing, but you'll also work closely with an 
interdisciplinary team of researchers in the Linguistics department and 
Macquarie University's Centre for Language Sciences.

The second project involves incremental syntactic parsing and 
coreference resolution. This project has both engineering and 
psycholinguistic implications, and the candidate can choose which to 
focus on. For example, incremental syntactic parsing and coreference 
resolution could be coupled with a speech recognition system as part of 
an on-line speech recognition and interpretation system. It could also 
be used to make predictions about on-line sentence comprehension as part 
of a psycholinguistic model.  You will be housed in the Department of 
Computing, but you'll also work closely with an interdisciplinary team 
of researchers in the Linguistics department and Macquarie University's 
Centre for Language Sciences.

Applicants should have a good background in mathematics and computer 
science, and be willing to learn linguistics as required.  A first-class 
Honours degree or a Masters degree is generally required for admission.  
The full-time stipend rate is $22,860 pa tax exempt for 3.5 years.

Completed applications are due by the 21 February 2011.  Contact 
Professor Mark Johnson (Mark.Johnson at MQ.edu.au) or see 
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~mjohnson/Recruiting.htm for more information.


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