School of InformaticsUniversity of EdinburghThe Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), the Institute ofCommunicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), and the HumanCommunication Research Centre (HCRC) in Edinburgh invite applicationsfor three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2006.CSTR and ICCS combine to form the world's largest concentration ofresearchers studying the theoretical, computational, and cognitiveaspects of language and speech. HCRC provides an interdisciplinaryresearch environment that includes staff from the School ofInformatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology and LanguageSciences pursuing research into the communication among humans andbetween humans and machines, using text, speech, and graphics. Allthree Institutes also have a strong track record in applied andindustry-sponsored research.PhD students will work on topics drawn from the following areas(potential supervisors are listed in brackets):o Speech technology (Rob Clark, Simon King, Steve Renals, HiroshiShimodaira): conversational agents, multimodal interaction, prosodyand information structure, speech recognition, speech synthesiso Cognitive science (Jean Carletta, Frank Keller, John Lee, JonOberlander, Helen Pain, Keith Stenning): computationalpsycholinguistics, educational technology, graphical communication,human reasoningo Computational linguistics (Claire Grover, Ewan Klein, Philipp Koehn,Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides, Oliver Lemon, Colin Matheson,Johanna Moore, Miles Osborne, Mark Steedman, Henry Thompson, RichardTobin, Bonnie Webber): annotation and markup, biomedical NLP,computational semantics, discourse and dialogue, informationextraction, machine translation, generation, parsing, questionanswering, statistical NLPApproximately 12 studentships from a variety of sources are availableto cover maintenance at the standard research council rate ofapproximately GBP 12.000 per year and tuition fees at the home/EU oroverseas rate.Additionally 5 Marie Curie Fellowships for early stage researchersworking towards a PhD in the area of speech science and technology areavailable. For more details see http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/edsst/.Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent incomputational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science,computer science, or a related discipline.For further information please contact Dr. Hiroshi Shimodaira(hshimoda@inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to applyare available from:http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.htmlApplication deadlines for entry in September 2006:January 31, 2006 for overseas studentsMarch 31, 2006 for UK and EU studentsApplications received after these deadlines may be considered, butthis cannot be guaranteed.
For more information on CSTR, ICCS, and HCRC, please visit:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/