29.633, Support: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Edinburgh
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Subject: 29.633, Support: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:17:12
From: Frank Keller [keller at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK
Institution/Organization: University of Edinburgh
Department: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
Level: PhD
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics
Description:
The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University
of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in
September 2018.
ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research on
computational approaches to language, communication and cognition. Primary
research areas in ILCC include:
- Natural language processing and computational linguistics
- Spoken language processing
- Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
- Information retrieval and information visualization
- Cognitive modeling of language and speech processing and of human decision
making
- Educational and assistive technology, human-computer interaction, learning
analytics
Funding:
Approximately 15 studentships from a variety of sources are available,
covering both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 14,777 per year
and tuition fees.
Requirements:
*** Studentships are available for UK and EU/EEA nationals only.*** Applicants
should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computer science, cognitive
science, AI, or a related discipline. For a list of academic staff at ILCC
with research areas, and for a list of indicative PhD topics, please consult
the links below.
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/study-with-us/possible-phd-topics-ilcc
About the PhD programme:
Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found
on the Informatics website.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
How to apply:
In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all
supporting documents) need to be received by 16 March 2018. The application is
entirely online.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=49
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Related information:
You may also be interested in pursuing a PhD in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral
Training (CDT) in Data Science at Edinburgh, which includes NLP as one of its
research areas. The application for this programme is separate.
http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
Application Deadline: 16-Mar-2018
Web Address for Applications: http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
Contact Information:
Dr Chris Lucas
ilcc-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
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