Connectionists: PhD studentships in Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology and Cognitive Science

[Frank Keller]

PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
 
Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
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 October 2023. ILCC is dedicated to the
pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to
language, communication and cognition.

Primary research areas include:

    * Natural language processing and computational linguistics

    * Machine Translation

    * Speech technology

    * Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision

    * Computational Cognitive Science , including language and speech,
      decision-making, learning and generalization

    * Social Media and Computational Social Science
    
    * Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and
      educational technology

    * Information retrieval and visualization

Approximately 10 studentships from a variety of sources are available,
covering both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 17,668 
(2022/23 rates) per year and tuition fees. Awards increase every year, typically
with inflation.  Studentships are available for UK, EU, and non-EU nationals. 

Applicants should have a strong undergraduate 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

There are TWO DEADLINES for applications to receive full consideration:

round 1: 25th November 2022
round 2: 27th January 2023

We strongly recommend that non-UK applicants submit their applications in
round 1, to maximise their chances of  funding.  Please direct inquiries to
the PhD admissions team at ilcc-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk.

Please note that the 3-year ILCC PhD program is distinct from the UKRI
Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing, which
offers a 4-year PhD with integrated study: 

http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/

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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
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