| More Information: | FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS
UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Based at the University of Edinburgh: in conjunction with School of Informatics
and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
Deadlines:
v Non UK : 27th November 2020
v UK : 29th January 2021
Applications are now sought for the CDTs third Cohort of students to start in
September 2021.
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The CDT in NLP offers unique, tailored doctoral training comprising both taught
courses and a doctoral dissertation over four years.
Each student will take a set of courses designed to complement their existing
expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP.
The studentships are fully funded for the four years and come with a generous
allowance for travel, equipment and research costs.
The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics, cognitive
science and design informatics from across the University of Edinburgh.
Students will be supervised by a world-class faculty of over 60 supervisors and
will benefit from cutting edge computing and experimental facilities, including
a large GPU cluster and eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality and visualisation
labs.
The CDT involves a number of industrial partners, including Amazon, Facebook,
Huawei, Microsoft, Naver, Toshiba, and the BBC. Links also exist with the Alan
Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre.
A wide range of research topics fall within the remit of the CDT:
* Natural language processing and computational linguistics
* Speech technology
* Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
* Information retrieval and visualization, computational social science
* Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including language and
speech processing
* Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and educational
technology
* Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution, language
variation and change
* Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing
The second cohort of CDT students will start in September 2021 and is now open
to applications.
Around 12 studentships are available, covering maintenance at the research
council rate* (currently £15,285 per year) plus tuition fees. Studentships are
open to all nationalities and we are particularly keen to receive applications
from women, minority groups and members of other groups that are
underrepresented in technology. Applicants in possession of other funding
scholarships or industry funding are also welcome to apply – please provide
details of your funding source on your application.
Applicants should have an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer
science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline; or have a
breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc.
Further details including the application procedure can be found
at:https://edin.ac/cdt-in-nlp
Application Deadlines
Early application is encouraged. And, in order to ensure full consideration
for funding, completed applications (including all relevant supporting
documents) need to be received, at the latest, by:
27th November 2020 (non UK applicants) or 29th January 2021 (UK applicants).
CDT in NLP Open Day
Find out more about the programme by attending the PG Virtual Open Week 9-13
November when the CDT in NLP will be hosting an event – date/time to be
advised.
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Enquiries
Any enquiries, please direct them to the CDT admissions team at:
cdt-nlp-info@inf.ed.ac.uk.
* https://www.ukri.org/skills/funding-for-research-training/
Sally
Sally Galloway
UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing – Coordinator
UKRI CDT in NLP
School of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh,
Informatics Forum,
10 Crichton St,
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Email: cdt-nlp-info@inf.ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 3130
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