Corpora: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh

From: Alexander Koller (koller@coli.uni-sb.de)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 08:44:34 MET

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    To: Alexander Koller <koller@coli.uni-sb.de>
    Subject: PhD Scholarships Saarbruecken/Edinburgh
    Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:44:34 +0100
    From: Alexander Koller <koller@coli.uni-sb.de>

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    Saarland University (Departments of General/Computational Linguistics
    and Informatics) are pleased to announce the availability of six
    doctoral scholarships within the newly established

                   European Post-Graduate College
             "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
                      Saarbruecken - Edinburgh

    starting in April 1st, 2001. Each scholarship will be funded for two
    years (extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in
    computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics.

    The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation
    between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division
    of Informatics) -- two leading institutions in the fields of
    computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive
    science who will collaborate in offering a joint post-graduate
    education programme. The cooperation includes

     * a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
     * joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken
       and Edinburgh
     * an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
       Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week research meeting
       attended by college members and lecturers from both locations).

    The college focuses on human language and speech processing and its
    computational, cognitive, and psychological foundations, particularly
    in the following research areas:

      * data-intensive language models (e.g. corpus-based and statistical
        modelling)
      * inference
      * knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology
      * language and speech understanding
      * dialogue and language generation

    The participating lecturers in Saarbruecken are Patrick Blackburn,
    Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit (computational linguistics), William
    Barry (phonetics), Matthew Crocker (psycholinguistics), Michael
    Kohlhase, Joerg Siekmann, Gert Smolka, and Wolfgang Wahlster
    (informatics/AI). In Edinburgh, lecturers are Michael Fourman, Ewan
    Klein, Alex Lascarides, Johanna Moore, Jon Oberlander, Martin
    Pickering, Mark Steedman, Paul Taylor, Bonnie Webber, and Chris
    Williams.

    Each scholarship is compensated with up to DM 2,870 per
    month. Additional compensation includes family allowance (where
    applicable), travel funding, and an additional monthly allowance of DM
    1,410 for the stay in Edinburgh.

    Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the
    relevant areas, and they should not be more than 28 years of
    age. Women and international students are particularly encouraged to
    apply. Applications should include

      * a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible)
      * copies of high school and university certificates
      * two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker)
      * an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge
        and activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter
        should indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted
        (computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, phonetics, or
        informatics/AI): where possible, it should include a brief outline of
        research interests to be pursued within the scholarship.

    Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address
    below). Closing date for applications is December 31st, 2000.

    Prof. Dr. Manfred Pinkal
    Department of Computational Linguistics
    Saarland University
    P.O. Box 15 11 50
    D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany

    Tel.: +49 (0)681 302-4344
    Fax: +49 (0)681 302-4351
    E-mail: pinkal@coli.uni-sb.de
    http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk/

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