Cognitive Psychology Neural Computation
Computational Linguistics Formal Logic
Data Intensive Linguistics Logic Programming
Theoretical Linguistics & Knowledge Representation
The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) offers a programme of
postgraduate study in cognitive science, centred on language and
cognition. The programme leads to the degrees of MSc in Cognitive
Science and Natural Language, MPhil or PhD. Some MSc places are still
available for the year starting October 1997.
CCS is committed to research and postgraduate teaching in cognitive
science at international level. The work of the Centre is at the heart
of Edinburgh's view of *informatics* -- the study of the structure,
behaviour, and design of computational systems, both natural and
artificial. CCS has a well-developed system of collaboration with
departments within Informatics (Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Science) and beyond (Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology).
The Centre's lecturers and research fellows work with over 60
postgraduates in a rich and varied intellectual and social environment.
Regular interdisciplinary research workshops, in which students actively
participate, focus on current problems in cognitive science. Visiting
researchers contribute to a lively seminar series. Research projects,
many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence,
have been funded by the UK research councils ESRC, EPSRC and MRC as well
as by the European Union LRE and ESPRIT programmes in such areas as
natural language understanding and computational neuroscience.
Teaching staff: [with associated departments]
Ewan Klein Head of Department
linguistic theory, phonology
Chris Brew [HCRC]
corpora, data intensive linguistics, language technology
Jo Calder [HCRC]
grammar formalisms, computational linguistics
Matthew Crocker [ESRC Fellow]
statistical language processing, computational psycholinguistics
Mark Ellison
computational phonology and morphology, natural computation
Bruce Graham
computational neuroscience, neural networks
Alexander Holt
natural language semantics, computational linguistics
Alex Lascarides [HCRC]
lexical and discourse processing, semantics, pragmatics
Paul Schweizer PhD Organiser
philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
Richard Shillcock MSc Course Organiser
psycholinguistics, cognitive modelling, cognitive neuropsychology
Keith Stenning [HCRC]
human memory, inference, connectionism
Associates and Fellows:
Sheila Glasbey EPSRC Fellow
M. Louise Kelly [Linguistics]
Robert Ladd [Linguistics]
John Lee [HCRC]
Chris Mellish [Artificial Intelligence]
Jon Oberlander [HCRC]
Massimo Poesio EPSRC Fellow
David Willshaw [MRC]
Human Communication Research Centre: The HCRC is a centre of excellence
in the interdisciplinary study of cognition and computation in human
communication, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
(UK). Drawing together researchers from Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Durham, HCRC focuses on the psychological aspects of real language
processing. HCRC shares a site with CCS, and the two contribute
towards a joint research environment.
Studying in Edinburgh: Edinburgh contains the largest concentration of
expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
in Europe. Students have access to that expertise, to Edinburgh's
large copyright libraries, and within Cognitive Science, to a
substantial offprint library. The department possesses extensive
computing facilities based on a network of Sun workstations and
Apple Macintoshes; access to Edinburgh's concurrent supercomputer
and other central computing services is easily arranged.
Requirements: Applicants typically have a first degree in one of the
participating areas or an appropriate joint honours degree.
Funding: UK and EU students following the MSc and PhD courses are
eligible to apply for studentships. CCS will advise all students
concerning funding possibilities. CCS attracts studentships from a
variety of UK and non-UK funding bodies. Non-UK applicants with
sufficient background may enroll as non-graduating students.
If you would like more information about the Postgraduate Programme in
Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, please contact:
Admissions
Centre for Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
UK
Telephone: +44 131 650 4667
Fax: +44 131 650 6626
Email: info@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/