PHD opportunity, ANU and University of Sydney

[Jane Simpson]

PhD opportunities,  Australian National University and the University of
Sydney 
(from Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews and Jane Simpson)

Applications are being sought from potential doctoral candidates interested
in enrolling in a PhD at the Australian National University or the
University of Sydney, within the framework of the project 'Understanding
Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus'.
 
Project background
The objective of this project is to develop a good computationally tractable
lexicon and grammar for modern Indonesian.  The rigorous analysis and
testing required for this will result in empirically robust and
linguistically well-grounded analyses of Indonesian.The grammar and lexicon
are being build within the framework of the Parallel Grammar project
(Pargram) (http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/Pargram/), based on the
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) model of grammar.
 
Funding for this follow-up project was awarded by the Australian Research
Council to a team including Wayan Arka and Avery Andrews (Australian
National University) and Jane Simpson (University of Sydney), and runs from
2008 to 2010..
 
Doctoral topics
This project would suit students interested in computational linguistics, or
in corpus building, or in the descriptive grammar of Indonesian, or in
Lexical Functional Grammar.

Applicants should state which  of  the  above projects they would be
interested in working on, and on which university they would prefer to be
based at. 

Facilities and support
 Project applicants should apply for regular scholarship funding through the
Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Some stipend
support is available through the project. In addition, the project has
support for participation in national and international project meetings.
 

Prerequisites
Applicants should possess a strong background in Linguistics or
Computational Linguistics or Computer Science, to Honours Level (in the
Australian system) or Master¹s Level (in the European and American systems).
Native speakers of varieties of Indonesian or Malay are particularly
encouraged to apply.
 
What to do
Interested applicants should contact Wayan Arka  (Australian National
University) <wayan.arka AT anu.edu.au> or Avery Andrews <avery.andrews AT
anu.edu.au> or Jane Simpson (University of Sydney) Jane Simpson
<jane.simpson AT  usyd.edu.au>, and then apply for admission to the
programmes as well as for scholarships.

Australian National University
Information on ANU scholarships is available at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/index.php

Australian and New Zealand students: To be considered for a regular
scholarship, applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia
or New Zealand with a good honours degree in linguistics or equivalent. An
application must be submitted for admission to the PhD program and an
Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and ANU Scholarship at Australian
National University. The form for this may be downloaded from
http://www.anu.edu.au/sas/forms/sas25local.pdf.

Please contact Dr Wayan Arka and Dr Avery Andrews to discuss whether to
apply 
in the Graduate Studies Field of Linguistics in the Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies or in the Faculty of Arts (Question 9 on the
form). Note that, as described at 16 in the form, you will need to arrange
for reports from three referees, on the forms that are provided with
application form. Note that the deadline for both the application and the
referees reports is Oct. 31, 2008, but you should contact Arka or Andrews
well before that to discuss your application.
 
International students should check out the range of scholarships listed at
http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/international_only.php, as well
as at http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/scholarships/all.php.  Applications for
these are highly competitive.


University of Sydney
http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/apply/index.shtml
http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/international/postgrad/apply/pg_inter_applic
ation-research.pd

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
APPLICATION CLOSING DATES (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
Semester 1 (March commencement) - 31 October of the previous year
Semester 2 (July commencement) - 30 April
Late or incomplete applications may be considered however, the University of
Sydney cannot guarantee that late applications will be processed in time for
the proposed start date. Quotas apply to some courses. Late applications for
courses which are subject to quotas may not be considered.

Scholarship Applicants
Applicants who wish to be considered for either an Endeavour International
Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) or a University
of Sydney International Scholarship (USydIS) must submit their applications
at the earlier dates specified below:

Semester 1 (March commencement)
31 July of the previous year
(successful candidates will be notified in late October/early November)

Semester 2 (July commencement)
31 December of the previous year
(successful candidates will be notified in April)
Application closing dates
LOCAL STUDENTS
Information on applying for admission to a research program can be found at:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/fstudent/postgrad/research/index.shtml
http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml

Information on scholarships for Australian citizens, Australian permanent
residents and New Zealand citizens can be found at:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/ro/training/postgraduate_awards.shtml
Closing date: 31st October 2009


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