18 April: fyi -- phd funding, UK
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PhD Studies in Computational Linguistics and
Language Engineering
ITRI, University of Brighton, UK
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The ITRI at the University of Brighton is inviting applications
for places on its postgraduate studies programme for the
coming academic year including at least 2 funded studentships.
The ITRI offers a unique opportunity for bright dynamic
graduates of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics
or a related discipline to study for a PhD in the area
of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering.
Students at the ITRI work closely with established researchers,
often contributing to existing projects. The ITRI offers
an excellent environment for apprentice academics who have
opportunities to meet and work with internationally renowned
researchers in the field, to present their work to a
friendly but discerning audience and to attend conferences,
workshops and training courses.
We welcome applications in one or more of the core areas of
expertise of the Institute:
- document generation, including multimodal and multilingual
generation
- generation in dialogue
- information extraction, document management and corpus linguistics
- lexical computing, including lexical representation
and computational lexicography
- natural language interfaces
Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in
Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or
a related discipline or be expecting to achieve this,
if final year students.
The ITRI also has two funded studentships available for PhDs:
1) A studentship on the COGENT (Controlled Generation of Text)
project. The project would be suitable for people interested
in carrying out research into areas such as underspecified
semantic representations (e.g., MRS), statistical NLG and
connections between NLG and formal semantics (including OT).
The project is in collaboration with Sussex University,
Dept. of Informatics. More information can be found
at the following location. (
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/cogent
)
2) A studentship on the TUNA (Towards a Unified Algorithm
for the Generation of Referring Expressions) project.
The project combines (psycho)linguistic, computational and
logical challenges and should be of interest to people whose
intellectual home is in either of these areas. Supervision
will be jointly by the Universities of Brighton and Tilburg.
More information can be found on the TUNA homepage. (
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/tuna
)
Additionally a third studentship on natural language
generation in the medical domain might become avaible
(related to the CLEF project; see http://www.clinical-escience.org/
).
All applications should ideally reach us by 31st May 2003.
Applications received after this deadline may be considered,
but this cannot be guaranteed.
Information about how to apply for a place on our PhD programme,
together with further details on postgraduate studies at
the ITRI, and on the available studentships can be found
on our research students page ( http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/students
).
Further information on the Institute's research programme can
be found on the ITRI home page ( http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk
).
For informal inquiries about the studentships on the TUNA
and COGENT projects send email to
For informal inquiries about the postgraduate programme at
the ITRI send email to
Paul Piwek, Research Student Division Leader
ITRI, University of Brighton
Watts Building, Moulsecoomb
Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
Email: postgrad-admissions@itri.brighton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1273 642916
Fax: +44 1273 642908
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