A number of funded PhD studentships in NLP/computational linguistics are available in the Computational Linguistics Lab in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, UK, for September 2023 entry.
Studentships are available on a range of specified topics with particular supervisors. Funding conditions, length of studentship and eligibility vary with topic - please see the links in the list below for details.
- Unsupervised text anonymisation using pre-trained language models: Dr Julia Ive https://julia-ive.github.io/, funded via CSC (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/ . - Understanding word embeddings via their algebraic-topological structures: Dr. Haim Dubossarsky https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2EDsENQAAAAJ, funded via CSC (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/.
- Prompt-based learning for adaptive context-dependent NLP: Prof. Matthew Purver http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/, funded via CSC (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/ . - Evaluating and Learning with Disagreements: Prof. Massimo Poesio http://www.massimopoesio.org/, funded via CSC (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/csc-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/.
- Next-generation NLP methods for meaning change: Dr. Haim Dubossarsky https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2EDsENQAAAAJ, funded via QMUL's Principal's fund (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/principal-and-epsrc-dtp-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/ . - Meaning coordination in dialogue: Prof. Matthew Purver http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/, funded via EPSRC (see here) http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/principal-and-epsrc-dtp-phd-studentships-in-electronic-engineering-and-computer-science/ .
More details on the topics and funding conditions are available from this page:
http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/phd/phd-studentships/
If you are interested, please get in touch with the relevant supervisor directly. Final applications are due by 31st January 2023.