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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">A new round of competitive PhD scholarships at Macquarie University has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>opened for both Australian and non-Australian students, and
we are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>encouraging top students in all areas of Natural Language Processing and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Machine Learning to apply. Complete applications must be received by the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>31st
July, 2018. Successful applicants will have a strong academic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>background and a good research record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">We encourage students interested in the intersection of Natural Language<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Processing and Deep Learning to apply. Specific research
topics include<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>semantic parsing, dialog systems, information extraction, language<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>learning and vision and language. Successful applicants should have a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>strong
background in algorithms, linear algebra and calculus, and prior<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>experience with packages such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. For information<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>about our group see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~mjohnson/">http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~mjohnson/</a>.
General<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>information about the application process and the International<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS) is here:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/hdr-main-scholarship-rounds/">https://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/hdr-main-scholarship-rounds/</a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>You
should email me (Mark dot Johnson @ MQ dot edu dot au) to discuss<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>your specific research topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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