New program in NLP at King's College, London

[Shalom Lappin]

 New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing
          in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London

    A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in
the
Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is
offering
an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September
2001, and
opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and
these new
programes please consult our web site at
www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html.
Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk)
or Jonathan
Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk).
    The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates
having two
EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be
awarded on a
competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science.
The holder
of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to
receive
a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European
Union
country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD
applicants interested
in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered
for these grants.