34.3741, Support: English based; English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, King's College London

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Subject: 34.3741, Support: English based; English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, King's College London

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Date: 05-Dec-2023
From: Barbara McGillivray [barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: English based; English; Computational Linguistics: PhD, King's College London

Institution/Organization: King's College London
Department: Digital Humanities
Web Address: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/areas/d
igital-humanities-research-mphil-phd#:~:tex

Level: MA /Msc

Duties: Project Work

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      English based

Description:

A fully funded PhD position is now available at King’s College London
on the project “‘Lost for words’: semantic search in the Find Case Law
service of The National Archives”, a Collaborative Doctoral Award
received by King’s College London in collaboration with The National
Archives and funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership
(LAHP). This interdisciplinary project is an exciting opportunity to
work in natural language processing (particularly computational
semantics and information retrieval) applied to legal texts and
digital humanities.

About the project:
Access to case law is vital for safeguarding the constitutional right
of access to justice. It enables members of the public to understand
their position when facing litigation and to scrutinise court
judgements. Since April 2022, UK court and tribunal decisions are
preserved by The National Archives’ Find Case Law service as freely
accessible online public records. This project seeks to improve Find
Case Law by enhancing it with meaning-sensitive (semantic) search
functionality. It will study how individuals without legal training
use language to navigate court judgments and it will develop tools to
facilitate this navigation. In most digital cultural heritage
catalogues, while we can search for words within the metadata
describing their records, we cannot search for records based on the
meaning of words contained within these records, for example the
different words to refer to “knife crime”. Therefore, users’ access to
collection is determined by their ability to articulate their
information need precisely. Recent advances in natural language
processing unlock new possibilities for querying documents via
state-of-the-art semantic search. Incorporating such search
capabilities in the Find Case Law collection is crucial for
democratising access to digital collections, helping expose the social
impact of how the law is written.

Skills required 
Essential:  
 - Experience with Natural Language Processing research and applied
work, including developing new tools.  
 - Interest in working with UK case law for improving access to
justice 
Desirable:  
 - Background in law or legal research. 
 - Experience working with digital archives  
 - Knowledge of User experience (UX) research  
 - Knowledge of lexical semantics.  
 - Experience with semantic search.  
 - Experience with NLP applied to legal texts. 

About application process:
Applicants will need to submit an application for a PhD in Digital
Humanities at King’s (h https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-resea
rch/areas/digital-humanities-research-mphil-phd#:~:text=The%20Departme
nt%20of%20Digital%20Humanities,%2C%20arts%2C%20culture%20and%20society
.) and an application for the LAHP (https://www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective
-students/collaborative-doctoral-awards-projects-available/). Both
applications need to be submitted by 26 January 2024 at 5pm.
Application Deadline: 26-Jan-2024

Web Address for Applications: https://lahp.flexigrant.com/login.aspx?R
eturnUrl=https%3a%2f%2flahp.flexigrant.com%2fstartapplication.aspx%3fi
d%3d12709

For queries specific to the project, please contact the project’s lead
supervisor Barbara McGillivray on barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk  

Barbara McGillivray | @BarbaraMcGilli
Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation and lead of MA
programme in Digital Humanities
Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group
Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London,
Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group at King’s
College London
Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data

Application Deadline: 26-Jan-2024

Web Address for Applications: https://lahp.flexigrant.com/login.aspx?R
eturnUrl=https%3a%2f%2flahp.flexigrant.com%2fstartapplication.aspx%3fi
d%3d12709

Contact Information:
Dr Barbara McGillivray
barbara.mcgillivray at kcl.ac.uk

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