22.1536, Support: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, NLP, Psycholing: PhD Student, U. of Edinburgh

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Subject: 22.1536, Support: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, NLP, Psycholing: PhD Student, U. of Edinburgh

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Date: 02-Apr-2011
From: Frank Keller [keller at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:59:48
From: Frank Keller [keller at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Institution/Organization: University of Edinburgh 
Department: ILCC, School of Informatics 
Web Address: http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 
Natural Language Processing 

Description:

PHD STUDENTSHIP IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the
University of Edinburgh invites applications for a three-year PhD
studentship starting in September 2011. ILCC is dedicated to the
pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to
language, communication and cognition.

The studentship is associated with the EPSRC project 'An Integrated
Model of Syntactic and Semantic Prediction in Human Language
Processing'. The aim of this project is to develop a model that
combines probabilistic incremental parsing with compositional
distributional semantics in order to achieve a broad-coverage account
of human language processing that can simulate reading time data. The
project will also apply this model to NLP tasks such as text
simplification.

The student will be supervised by Dr. Frank Keller and Dr. Mirella
Lapata, and will work on a topic drawn from following research areas:

o probabilistic parsing, including incremental parsing, unsupervised
  parsing, and crosslinguistic parsing

o distributional models of semantics, including compositional and
  syntax-aware vector-space models and topic models

o models of human language processing, including models that integrate
  syntactic and semantic processing

o models of eye-tracking data in reading, including applications such
  as text simplification

The successful candidate will have a good honors degree or equivalent
in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer
science, or a related discipline. He/she will have strong programming
skills and previous experience in natural language processing, e.g.,
in parsing, distributional semantics, or probabilistic modeling.

The studentship covers maintenance at the research council rate of
around GBP 13 500 per year, plus tuition fees at the EU/UK rate.
Applications are restricted to UK/EU citizens. The start date of the
studentship is flexible, but can be no earlier than September 1, 2011.

If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Frank Keller
(keller at inf.ed.ac.uk) or Dr. Mirella Lapata (mlap at inf.ed.ac.uk). To
apply, please follow the instructions at:

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

As your research area, please select 'Institute of Communicating and
Collaborative Systems'. On the application form under 'Research
Project', please state 'EPSRC Studentship: SynSem'.

Applications received after the deadline may be considered, but this
cannot be guaranteed. 

Application Deadline: 15-May-2011 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Frank Keller 
	keller at Inf.ed.ac.uk  

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