[Corpora-List] PhD Studentship: Text Simplification - University of Wolverhampton, UK

[Lucia Specia]

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PhD Studentship - Text Simplification
Closing date: May, 2 2011
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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 Text Simplification. The PhD candidate will be expected
to carry out research towards the design, implementation and
evaluation of advanced approaches for text simplification using
statistical models.

The application deadline is May 2, 2011. The starting date of the PhD
position is September/October 2011.

A successful applicant must have:
•	A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics,
Statistics or closely related areas.
•	Strong programming skills in one or more languages, including C/C++,
Java, Python/Perl.
•	Experience in computational linguistics / natural language
processing, particularly the area of text simplification.
•	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 short-listed 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. Ruslan 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
is one of the top 6 in the UK.

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

Lucia Specia
Senior Lecturer
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
E-mail: L.Specia <at> wlv.ac.uk

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