9 January: fyi -- postgrad funding, Memphis
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The Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the University of Memphis
invites applications from outstanding undergraduate and graduate students
with an interest in various aspects of natural language processing.
Particularly students with a background in computational linguistics,
cognitive science and cognitive psychology are encouraged to apply. Students
will be trained in computational linguistics, natural language processing,
and artificial intelligence. In addition to their course work, they will
work part-time on innovative research projects, for which they receive a
tuition waver and funding.
The Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the University of Memphis is
an interdisciplinary center that incorporates the fields of computer
science, cognitive science, psychology, computational linguistics,
philosophy, engineering, and physics. The students and faculty are working
on a number of Federal grants that involve the development and testing of
intelligent tutoring systems with natural language and dialogue facilities,
of conversational agents with speech generation, facial expressions, and
gestures, and of other computer systems that require natural language
processing. Graduate students in the IIS receive masters or doctoral
degrees in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences (with a concentration in
computer science) or in Psychology. For more information on IIS, see
http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/iis.htm .
Individuals who want training in these areas and funding on the Federal
grants should contact Art Graesser (a-graesser@memphis.edu) or Max Louwerse
(mlouwers@memphis.edu).
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