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 September 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 16,062 (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@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:
The Laboratory on Accessible Technologies "S. Polin" at the University of Turin, Italy (http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/en/) offers a 1-year postdoc/research-grant position in the context of the project NovaGraphS (Non-Visual Access to Graphical Structures, http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/en/progetto-novagraphs/).
The project concerns the issue of accessing scientific contents of graphical structures (e.g, tables, trees, graphs) for visually impaired people. The goal is to use together WEB and NLP/NLG technologies for building a browser plugin that supports a speech-based accessible representation of graphical structures. The main idea is to build a software that (1) starts from a syntactic/semantic representation of the graphical structure (e.g. LaTeX), (2) converts it into SVG (that is readable by a browser), and (3) reads and navigates the obtained SVG using speech dialogue.
The research team includes Alessandro Mazzei (PI, from Computer Science Department), together with all the participants to the project.
The yearly salary for this position is 19,367 EURO (gross), corresponding to a net monthly salary 1,425 EURO (12 times a year).
A PhD or a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related areas is highly recommended but not strictly required. Knowledge of Italian is not mandatory.
The position will start >>March 1st 2023<< and the deadline for application is >>December 23th 2022<<, but please contact <alessandro.mazzei at unito.it> for any further information ASAP.
Best regards,
Alessandro Mazzei
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Alex Lascarides