16.3578, Support: Comp Ling/Speech Technology: PhD Student, UK

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Date: 16-Dec-2005
From: Hiroshi Shimodaira < h.shimodaira at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology: PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, UK 

	
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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:00:54
From: Hiroshi Shimodaira < h.shimodaira at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology: PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, UK 
 

University or Organization: University of Edinburgh
Job Rank: PhD  
Specialty Areas: Speech Technology 
PhD Studentships in Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology, and 
Cognitive Science


School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), the Institute of Communicating
and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), and the Human Communication Research Centre
(HCRC) in Edinburgh invite applications for three-year PhD studentships starting
in September 2006.

CSTR and ICCS combine to form the world's largest concentration of researchers
studying the theoretical, computational, and cognitive aspects of language and
speech. HCRC provides an interdisciplinary research environment that includes
staff from the School of Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology
and Language Sciences pursuing research into the communication among humans and
between humans and machines, using text, speech, and graphics. All three
Institutes also have a strong track record in applied and industry-sponsored
research.

PhD students will work on topics drawn from the following areas (potential
supervisors are listed in brackets):
- Speech technology (Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, Hiroshi Shimodaira):
conversational agents, multimodal interaction, prosody and information
structure, speech recognition, speech synthesis

- Cognitive science (Jean Carletta, Frank Keller, John Lee, Jon Oberlander,
Helen Pain, Keith Stenning): computational psycholinguistics, educational
technology, graphical communication, human reasoning

- Computational linguistics (Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Philipp Koehn, Mirella
Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Oliver Lemon, Colin Matheson, Johanna Moore, Miles
Osborne, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, Richard Tobin, Bonnie Webber):
annotation and markup, biomedical NLP, computational semantics, discourse and
dialogue, information extraction, machine translation, generation, parsing,
question answering, statistical NLP

Approximately 12 studentships from a variety of sources are available to cover
maintenance at the standard research council rate of approximately GBP 12.000
per year and tuition fees at the home/EU or overseas rate.

Additionally 5 Marie Curie Fellowships for 'early stage researchers' working
towards a PhD in the area of speech science and technology are available.  For
more details please see http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/edsst/

Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computational
linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science, computer science, or a
related discipline.

For further information please contact Dr. Hiroshi Shimodaira
(h.shimodaira at ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply are
available from: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html

Application deadlines: 
January 31, 2006 for overseas students
March   31, 2006 for UK and EU students

Applications received after these deadlines may be considered, but this cannot
be guaranteed.

For more information on CSTR, ICCS, and HCRC, please visit:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/ 


Web Address for Applications:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html

Applications are due by 31-Mar-2006

Contact Information:

Dr Hiroshi Shimodaira
Email: h.shimodaira at ed.ac.uk





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