Connectionists: Four year PhD studentships in NLP at Edinburgh

[Frank Keller]

   FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

   UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING


   Based at the University of Edinburgh: in conjunction with School of
   Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.


   Deadlines:

   v  Non UK :    27^th November 2020

   v  UK :           29^th January 2021


   Applications are now sought for the CDTs third Cohort of students to
   start in September 2021.



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   The CDT in NLP offers unique, tailored doctoral training comprising
   both taught courses and a doctoral dissertation over four years.


   Each student will take a set of courses designed to complement their
   existing expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on
   NLP.


   The studentships are fully funded for the four years and come with a
   generous allowance for travel, equipment and research costs.


   The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics,
   cognitive science and design informatics from across the University of
   Edinburgh.   Students will be supervised by a world-class faculty of
   over 60 supervisors and will benefit from cutting edge computing and
   experimental facilities, including a large GPU cluster and
   eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality and visualisation labs.


   The CDT involves a number of industrial partners, including Amazon,
   Facebook, Huawei, Microsoft, Naver, Toshiba, and the BBC.  Links also
   exist with the Alan Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre.


   A wide range of research topics fall within the remit of the CDT:

   w  Natural language processing and computational linguistics

   w  Speech technology

   w  Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision

   w  Information retrieval and visualization, computational social
   science

   w  Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including
   language and speech processing

   w  Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and
   educational technology

   w  Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution,
   language variation and change

   w  Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing.


   The next cohort of CDT students will start in September 2021 and is now
   open for applications.  Around 12 studentships are available, covering
   maintenance at the research council rate^ (currently GBP 15,285 per year)
   plus tuition fees.


   Studentships are open to all nationalities and we are particularly keen
   to receive applications from women, minority groups and members of
   other groups that are underrepresented in technology.  Applicants in
   possession of other funding scholarships or industry funding are also
   welcome to apply - please provide details of your funding source on
   your application.


   Applicants should have an undergraduate or master's degree in computer
   science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline;
   or have a breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public
   sector, etc.


   Further details, including the application procedure, can be found at:
   [2]http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/


   Application Deadlines

   Early application is encouraged but completed applications must be
   received at the latest by:


   27^th November 2020 (non UK applicants) or 29th January 2021 (UK
   applicants).


   CDT in NLP Open Day

   Find out more about the programme by attending the PG Virtual Open Week
   9-13^ November when the CDT in NLP will be hosting an event - date/time
   to be advised.


   Click [3]here to join mailing list.


   Enquiries

   Please direct any enquiries to the CDT admissions team at:
   [4]cdt-nlp-info at inf.ed.ac.uk.


   ^ [5]https://www.ukri.org/skills/funding-for-research-training/




   Sally Galloway


   UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing - Coordinator

   [6]UKRI CDT in NLP

   School of Informatics,

   University of Edinburgh,

   Informatics Forum,

   10 Crichton St,

   Edinburgh EH8 9AB


   Email: [7]cdt-nlp-info at inf.ed.ac.uk

   Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 3130


References

   1. https://twitter.com/Edin_CDT_NLP/status/1313132927014895619
   2. http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/
   3. https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-days-events-visits/open-days/postgraduate-virtual-open-days
   4. mailto:cdt-nlp-info at inf.ed.ac.uk
   5. https://www.ukri.org/skills/funding-for-research-training/
   6. http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/
   7. mailto:cdt-nlp-info at inf.ed.ac.uk

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