8 June: fyi -- PhD funding, UK

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The Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK is currently
offering fully-funded PhD studentships. Deadline for applications is
20th June 2016. I would especially like to motivate students with
interest in big data, machine learning, text-mining, web & data
science for the following topics:

1. Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources.
2. Discovering semantic relationships in large textual collections with applications to recommender systems for research.
3. Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and trends: data-driven approaches to scientometrics.
4. Machine learning methods for performance forecasting in the field of leaning analytics.
5. Personalised content recommenders for learning: optimisation strategies with constraints.

The offered stipend of 14,057 GBP per annum plus waived student fees
is offered for 3 years. Prospective applicants should contact me and
Prof Zdrahal directly at
petr.knoth@open.ac.uk and
zdenek.zdrahal@open.ac.uk prior to
application.

Best wishes,

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Dr. Petr Knoth
Research Fellow
Knowledge Media institute
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom
phone: +44 (0)1908 654548
Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrknoth
Twitter: @petrknoth
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