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Applications are invited for a UK EPSRC quota award research
studentship leading to a Ph. D. available immediately.
The award can be held full-time over 3 years or part-time
over a five year period. The research studentship can be held
in any area of language processing or computational
linguistics that falls within the general remit of
EPSRC funding and is related or complementary to
our current research activities.
The Department holds EPSRC research grants in the areas
of text reuse and architectures for natural language processing, and has recently completed a project in grammar induction. We have related interests, supported by EU and industrial grants in: Multi-media and Multilingual Information Extraction, Lexicons and lexical tuning, Belief and knowledge structures, Categorial grammars and parsing, Hypertext generation, Argument structure and Machine learning of dialogue structures to model conversation.
Applicants should have a class I or II:1 Honours degree, or a II:II class Honours degree plus a Masters degree or relevant research experience. Full studentships including a basic maintenance award currently of £8,060 pa are available to applicants with 3 years qualifying residence in the UK (excluding full-time education).
Candidates may also wish to consult our NLP Web site
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/),
and the EPSRC studentship handbook online
(http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/EPSRCWEB/MAIN/TRAINING/INFOSTU/INTRO/INTRO.asp/Main.htm)
which gives full details of eligibility conditions and maintenance allowances.
Applications should include a CV, an outline of your relevant training and experience, and a brief statement of the research areas that interest you, plus the names and addresses of two academic referees.
Applications and requests for further information should be sent to Professor Yorick Wilks (yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
and requests for forms to apply officially should go
to him and to k.barker@dcs.shef.ac.uk.