27.2122, Support: Computational Linguistics / United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2122. Mon May 09 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2122, Support: Computational Linguistics / United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 12:37:30
From: Le Ha [L.A.Ha at wlv.ac.uk]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, PhD, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

 Institution/Organization: University of Wolverhampton 
Department: Research Group in Computational Linguistics 
Web Address: http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Description:

PhD studentship in NLP approaches to estimating text difficulty

The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk) at the
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing of the University of
Wolverhampton invites applications for a 3-year University of Wolverhampton
PhD studentship in the area of estimating text difficulty. The proposed topic
of the PhD research will be to develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP)
methodology to predict text difficulty not only at the grammatical level (e.g.
lexical or syntactic complexity) but also at the level of text content: the
complexity of concepts mentioned in a specific text and the relationships
between those concepts. Much of the research on quantifying text complexity so
far has relied on readability measures which have often been criticised for
being inaccurate or unreliable.

The developed methodology will be applied to a user scenario, e.g. student
assessment.

This is a funded bursary which will consist of a stipend towards living
expenses (£14,500 per year) and remission of fees. 

Entry requirements

A successful applicant must have:

- A good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational
Linguistics or Linguistics, with strong programming skills and statistical /
mathematical background 
- Experience in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing,
including Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing.

Experience in linguistics, particularly psycholinguistics or clinical
linguistics, would be a plus.

Application procedure

Applications must include:

- Curriculum vitae listing degrees awarded, courses covered and marks
obtained, publications, relevant experience and names of three referees who
could be contacted for a reference
- Cover letter with statement of research interests, outlining why you are
interested in this PhD position/topic, how you plan to approach the research
task and why you consider your experience to be relevant. 
- Expression of interest form which can be obtained by emailing
y.skalban at wlv.ac.uk

Schedule

The application deadline is 23 May 2016. The short-listed candidates will be
notified by email by 1 June 2016 and interviewed via Skype on 7 June 2016. The
starting date of the PhD position is 1 October 2016 or any time as soon as
possible after that. 

Established by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the research group in Computational
Linguistics delivers cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas. The
results from the UK research assessment exercises confirm the research group
in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research with
its research defined as ‘internationally leading, internationally excellent
and internationally recognised’. 
Informal enquiries and electronic applications can be sent to by email to: 

Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov
Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing 
University of Wolverhampton 
Email: R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk

Application Deadline: 23-May-2016 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof Ruslan Mitkov 
	MC138, MC Building, University of Wolverhampton 
	Wulfruna Street 
	Wolverhampton WV1 1LY 
	United Kingdom 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Yvonne Skalban 
	y.skalban at wlv.ac.uk  

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