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
Funding
Approximately 15 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 14,777 per year and tuition fees.
Requirements
*** Studentships are available for UK and EU/EEA nationals only. *** 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 the links below.
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/study-with-us/possible-phd-topics-ilcc
About the PhD programme
Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found on the Informatics website.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd
How to apply
In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all supporting documents) need to be received by 16 March 2018. The application is entirely online.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=491
Please direct enquiries to the PhD admissions team at
ilcc-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk
Related information
You may also be interested in pursuing a PhD in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science at Edinburgh, which includes NLP as one of its research areas. The application for this programme is separate.
http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/
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