12 April: fyi -- phd funding, Australia

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PhD scholarship -- Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie
University

The PhD is attached to an Australian Research Council-funded project
on natural language generation for Aboriginal languages. The overall
project involves of constructing a data-to-text system for the
Aboriginal language Arrernte, taking as a starting point data from AFL
("Australian Rules") football. This will include a computational
linguistic analysis of Arrernte, the construction of a grammar for
Arrernte in an appropriate formalism, and the building of an
English-language prototype system; the PhD will focus on one aspect of
this. A longer description of the project goals copied from the grant
proposal is at
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~madras/research/aborig-grant.html.

The position will be at Macquarie University, Sydney. Details on
applying for a PhD place at Macquarie are available at

http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/applications

and on the scholarship at

http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/scholarships

(allocation number 2010099).

The closing date is April 30, 2010.

If you have any questions, or would just like to discuss the position,
please contact Mark Dras (http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~madras/).

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