[Corpora-List] PhD studentship - University of Wolverhampton: Statistical Methods for Recognising Textual Entailment

[Lucia Specia]

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk)
of the University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a 3-year
University of Wolverhampton PhD studentship in the area of Textual
Entailment with Statistical Methods. This is a funded bursary which
will consist of a stipend towards living expenses and remission of
fees. The PhD candidate will be expected to carry out research towards
the design, implementation and evaluation of advanced approaches for
textual entailment using statistical methods.

The application deadline is 30th August 2011. The starting date of the
PhD position is October 2011. Applications from existing PhD students
are welcomed.

A successful applicant must have:
A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/ Engineering. Mathematical,
statistics or closely related areas.
Strong programming skills in one or more languages including Perl C/C++
Experience in computational linguistics / natural language processing,
particularly the area of textual entailment.
Acquaintance with machine learning and statistical modelling techniques.

Applications must include:

1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered,
publications, relevant work experience, and names of two referees that
could be contacted if necessary
2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research interests,
indicating why you are interested in this position and why you
consider your experience is relevant.
3) An expression of interest form: http:
//www.wlv.ac.uk/Docs/grad_sch_exp_of_int.doc

The shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by telephone in the
weeks following the application deadline. They will then be asked to
complete a research proposal.

Established by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the research group in
Computational Linguistics delivers cutting-edge research in a number
of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation,
question answering, multilingual text processing, multiple-choice
question generation and text simplification. The results from the
latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008
confirm the research group in Computational Linguistics as one of the
top performers in UK research. The research group was ranked joint 3rd
with 2 more universities in the Unit of Assessment “Linguistics”.
According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research
Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton
in one of the top 6 in the UK.

Informal enquiries and electronic applications can be sent to by email to:

Erin Stokes
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
Email: erin.stokes at wlv.ac.uk

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