PhD Studentships: Saarbruecken-Edinburgh

[Matthew Crocker]

Saarland University is pleased to announce the availability of three
doctoral scholarships within the recently established

                      European Post-Graduate College
               "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                         Saarbruecken - Edinburgh

starting in April 1st, 2002. Each scholarship will be funded for two
years (extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in
computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics (computer
science), from Saarland University.

The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation
between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of
Informatics) - two leading institutions in the fields of Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science who are
collaborating in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The
cooperation includes

* a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
* joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and
   Edinburgh
* an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
   Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum 
attended by
   college members and lecturers from both centres)

The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of
human language processing, particularly emphasising the following
research areas:

* inference and reasoning
* knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology
* data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and statistical
   language modelling)
* dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)
* language understanding

Lecturers in Saarbruecken are M. Pinkal, H. Uszkoreit (computational
linguistics), W. Barry (phonetics), M. Crocker (psycholinguistics), M.
Kohlhase, J. Siekmann, G. Smolka, W. Wahlster (informatics/AI). In
Edinburgh, lecturers include M. Fourman, E. Klein, A. Lascarides, C.
Mellish, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering,
M. Steedman, P.  Taylor, B. Webber, and C. Williams.

The scholarship provides up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional
compensation includes family allowance (where applicable), travel
funding, and an additional monthly allowance of approximately DM 1,410
for the stay in Edinburgh.

Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the
relevant areas, preferably at the Masters level (equivalent to German
Diplom) and should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists
and international students are particularly encouraged to
apply. Applications should include:

1. a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible)
2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,
    preferably in English)
3. copies of high school and university degree certificates
4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker)
5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and
    activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should
    indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted
    (computational linguistics, phonetics, or informatics/AI): where possible,
    it should include a brief outline of research interests to be pursued
    within the scholarship.

Applications should be sent (hardcopy format strongly preferred) to
the speaker of the college (see address below). Closing date for
applications is Dec 14th, 2001.

                   Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
                 Department of Computational Linguistics
                          Saarland University
                           P.O. Box 15 11 50
                         D-66041 Saarbruecken

Tel:  +49 (0)681 302-6560     E-mail:   egk-admin at coli.uni-sb.de
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