[Corpora-List] NLP Research Studentship

From: William Ralph Keller (billk@sussex.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 14:24:31 MET DST

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                               UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

                            DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS

                            PhD. Studentship Available

    A 3-year PhD studentship is available starting on or around 1st January
    2004, associated with a UK EPSRC-funded project "Natural Language
    Service Composition".

    The utility of the ubiquitous computing environment will be greatly
    enhanced when users are able to tailor the environment by composing
    services to meet their individual needs. This project is exploring the
    use of speech and natural language processing techniques to help make
    service composition a reality for non-technical users. The aim is to
    develop an interactive, service composition tool using a speech
    interface with which users can compose new features from the available
    network services. The associated PhD studentship would be suitable for
    someone interested in carrying out research in areas such as

       * automated extraction of domain terminology/lexical acquisition for
         practical language processing systems
       * techniques for integrating ontological and linguistic knowledge
       * robust language processing techniques for speech understanding in
         a constrained domain of discourse
       * user interfaces combining speech and language with other
         modalities

    Applicants for the studentship should have a good first degree and/or
    postgraduate qualification in computer science, computer processing of
    language, or similar. The studentship covers tuition fees for EU
    nationals; the project also pays a (tax-free) stipend starting at UKP
    8000 a year. The grants include funds for attendance at relevant
    workshops and conferences.

    The successful applicant will join a dynamic project team consisting of
    6 faculty and other researchers with expertise in natural language
    processing and networked systems. The Natural Language and Computational
    Linguistics (NLCL) group at the University of Sussex has a
    distinguished, international track record for research in natural
    language processing and is one of the largest in the UK focusing on
    statistical and corpus-based methods. It currently consists of around 20
    faculty, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, headed by 2 professors.
    For information about other language processing work as the University
    of Sussex
    see: <http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/>.

    Interested candidates should email their CV (as plain text, postscript,
    or pdf) as soon as possible to:

    Dr. Bill Keller
    email: billk@sussex.ac.uk



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