13 November: FYI -- PhD funding (Edinburgh, UK)
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School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the
University of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD
studentships starting in September 2018. ILCC is dedicated to the
pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to
language, communication and cognition.
Primary research areas in ILCC include:
* Natural language processing and computational linguistics
* Spoken language processing
* Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
* Information retrieval and information visualization
* Cognitive modeling of language and speech processing and of human decision making
* Educational and assistive technology, human-computer interaction, learning analytics
Approximately 15 studentships from a variety of sources are available,
covering both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 14,553
per year and tuition fees. Studentships are available for UK, EU, and
non-EU nationals.
Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computer
science, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline.
For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a
list of indicative PhD topics, please consult:
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff
http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc
Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found at:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications
(including all supporting documents) need to be received by 8 December
2017. Please direct inquiries to the PhD admissions team
atilcc-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk.
You may also be interested in pursuing a PhD in the EPSRC Centre for
Doctoral Training in Data Science at Edinburgh, which includes NLP as
one of its research areas. The application for this programme is
separate. For details, please consult:
http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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