[Corpora-List] ESRC PhD studentship in computational linguistics at King's College London

[Matthew Purver]

ESRC funded PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics

This studentship is attached to an ESRC Professorial Fellowship on the 
Probabilistic Representation of Linguistic Knowledge recently awarded to 
Shalom Lappin in the Department of Philosophy, King's College London. It 
will be held in the Department of Philosophy at King's, in the 
Linguistics PhD program.

It will start on October 1, 2012 and run for three years until September 
30, 2015.

The PhD student's research will address the connection between the 
stochastic modeling of syntactic knowledge (linguistic competence 
generally), and the probabilistic representation of knowledge in other 
cognitive domains. He/she will consider the  relationship between
probabilistic learning models and stochastic representations of the 
target class of learning.
He/she will be encouraged to write an innovative dissertation on the 
central theoretical issues in cognitive modeling that drive the project. 
He/she will co-author project papers and attend conferences. The student 
will receive training in core theoretical and implementational aspects 
of computational linguistics and natural language processing. He/she 
will be introduced to current issues in cognitive science, particularly 
as these bear on the  concerns of the project.

Full ESRC studentship support (annual stipend of £15,590 plus home/EU 
tuition fees) is normally available only to students who (a) have been 
ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom for the previous three years; 
(b) other than citizens of European Union countries, whose residence 
during that period has not been wholly or mainly for the purposes of 
full-time education; and (c) who have permission to reside permanently 
in the United Kingdom. EU students who do not meet the above criteria 
may be eligible for a fees only studentship. Potential applicants who 
are uncertain as to their eligibility should contact Jennie Eldridge
(jennie.eldridge at kcl.ac.uk).

The studentship will be associated with the Language, Media & Culture 
(LMC) framework within King's Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral 
Training Centre (KISS-DTC), which is an ESRC approved Doctoral Training 
Centre for Theme 10. One of the components of the LMC framework is 
Language, Discourse, and Communication.

Candidates should have a strong MA (or equivalent degree) in 
linguistics, philosophy, computer science, or cognitive science. 
Interested applicants should send a full CV, three letters of
recommendation, and a letter of interest to Shalom Lappin at 
shalom.lappin at kcl.ac.uk by August 22.
Enquiries can also be sent to the same email address.


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